I’m either participating in, being asked to share links to, or
hearing about quite a few awesome NaNo
things, so I thought I’d just sum things up in one post:
The program will continue for the entire month of November
(Monday – Friday) and will spotlight subsequent weekly themes that aim to guide
the NaNoWriMo participant through the novel writing process. The schedule
includes:
Nov 1-2: Creativity / Idea Generation
Nov 5-9: Story Structure / Plotting
Nov 12-16: Character
Nov 19-23: Inspiration
Nov: 26-30: Endings / Revision
Every day of November (and even a few
late-October prep days), YA Highway will be sending out an e-mail note of
something inspiring. A blog post that helped one of us get through a rough
writing patch, or a picture of a sloth clinging to a llama*. A daily dose of
advice, motivation and camaraderie to remind you that we're in this writing
game together, and when you succeed, it makes the world of kidlit better for us
all!
1st place: $50 gift card to Amazon.com and 10 page novel critique by
LM Preston
2nd: 1 year Premium
Membership and 1 member book of their choice
3rd place: 1 member eBook of their
choice
Check this out for daily tips and blogging posts!
Post-NaNo
January 4-6th: Designed
to facilitate a discussion between authors, agents, editors, and aspiring
writers all about the importance (and how-to) of revision, post-NaNoWriMo.
(I am contributing to a Q&A and writing a post on
revision)
During the first week of December, will
to focus on tips for revising that NaNo novel. I hear rumors of a post of your
favorite agent quotes/ideas. Be sure to check back at their blog to
check it out!
If there’s things I’ve missed (I’m sure I have) and you want to add, feel free to shoot me an email or
post in the comments!
PS – Just for fun, check out this Time
article on the whole deal.
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