It's December 1st already?! Â NaNo is over?! How'd you do? We have one final book to feature, possibly the most well-known one. Â It's the first NaNo book to be made into a movie: Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen. As a young man, Jacob Jankowski was tossed by fate onto a rickety train that was... Continue Reading →
It's December 1st already?! Â NaNo is over?! How'd you do? We have one final book to feature, possibly the most well-known one. Â It's the first NaNo book to be made into a movie: Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen. As a young man, Jacob Jankowski was tossed by fate onto a rickety train that was... Continue Reading →
We've featured Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins before, but did you know it was a NaNo novel? Anna was looking forward to her senior year in Atlanta, where she has a great job, a loyal best friend, and a crush on the verge of becoming more. So she's less than thrilled about... Continue Reading →
We've featured Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins before, but did you know it was a NaNo novel? Anna was looking forward to her senior year in Atlanta, where she has a great job, a loyal best friend, and a crush on the verge of becoming more. So she's less than thrilled about... Continue Reading →
It's the second weekend of NaNo; how goes the writing?  We've got another book to feature -- Angelfire by Courtney Allison Moulton.  Angelfire was written during NaNoWriMo 2008 and released by Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins, in February 2011. First there are nightmares. Every night Ellie is haunted by terrifying dreams of monstrous creatures that... Continue Reading →
It's the second weekend of NaNo; how goes the writing?  We've got another book to feature -- Angelfire by Courtney Allison Moulton.  Angelfire was written during NaNoWriMo 2008 and released by Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins, in February 2011. First there are nightmares. Every night Ellie is haunted by terrifying dreams of monstrous creatures that... Continue Reading →
Here we are, about to head into our first NaNo weekend! Keep the energy up! To help get you through the weekends in November, we'll feature a book every Friday that written during NaNoWriMo. These authors did you -- so can you! This week, we're talking about Losing Faith by Denise Jaden. Losing... Continue Reading →
Here we are, about to head into our first NaNo weekend! Keep the energy up! To help get you through the weekends in November, we'll feature a book every Friday that written during NaNoWriMo. These authors did you -- so can you! This week, we're talking about Losing Faith by Denise Jaden. Losing... Continue Reading →
Happy NaNoWriMo day! Â Have you all gotten to a great start? Â Got that excitement fueling your writing? Â Build on that excitement and write as much as you can this week. Â The more words you can bank now, the bigger cushion you'll have for later in the month if you need it. By the end of... Continue Reading →
On the surface, NaNoWriMo might look deceptively easy: write 1667 words a day? No problem! Or maybe it looks impossible: write 50,000 words in 30 days? No way! Either way, the best chance for winning NaNoWriMo is to make a plan you can stick with. Â Maybe you can whip out 1667 words in an hour.... Continue Reading →
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