I’m only about a half hour into National Novel Writing Month and I’m already running into a few problems. Yikes. First off, the second I opened that blank word document, I panicked. Even though I had a brief (and I mean brief) outline in front of me, I still couldn’t seem to get myself pumped. …

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Well, I did it! I signed up for National Novel Writing Month also known as NaNoWriMo. I’m going in with low expectations; I’m going to write as much as I can and if I don’t finish, that’s okay too. I created my profile a few days ago and have been adding writing buddies and reading …

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With NaNoWriMo less than a week away, why not enter a contest? Check this out: Serendipity Literary Agency, in collaboration with Sourcebooks and Gotham Writers’ Workshop, is hosting its first Young Adult Novel Discovery Competition for a chance to win a one-on-one consultation with one of New York’s leading YA literary agents! YA literary agent …

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It’s almost November 1, which means that National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) is upon us. For those of you who have never heard of NaNoWriMo, check out their site here, but the basic idea is that in one month (November) you write an entire 50,000 word novel. It seems stressful, but one of the big …

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