One part writing boot camp, one part rollicking party, National Novel Writing Month, more popularly known as NaNoWriMo, celebrates its 19th year of encouraging creativity, education, and the power of the imagination through the largest writing event in the world. <\/p>\n
According to Wikipedia, NaNoWriMo is an annual, Internet-based creative writing project that takes place during the month of November. Participants attempt to write a 50,000-word manuscript between Nov. 1 and Nov. 30.<\/p>\n
This year, NaNoWriMo expects over 400,000 people\u2014including over 70,000 K-1 2 students and educators on our Young Writers Program website\u2014to start a 50,000-word novel in the month of November. <\/p>\n
Throughout the month, they\u2019ll be guided by this year\u2019s theme: Superpowered Noveling. <\/p>\n
\u201cNaNoWriMo ignites people\u2019s superheroic creative powers every year by empowering them to write their stories. It takes courage, grit, resilience\u2014and wild imaginative leaps\u2014to write 50,000 words of a novel in a month. Our stories save us from villainous forces that we encounter every day. Our stories determine the future of our world,\u201d said Grant Faulkner, executive director of NaNoWriMo. <\/p>\n
Last year, NaNoWriMo welcomed 384,126 participants, in 646 different regions, on six continents. Of these, more than 34,000 met the goal of writing 50,000 words in a month. <\/p>\n
This year, participants will be inspired by weekly \u201cpep talks\u201d penned by published authors, including Roxane Gay, Kevin Kwan, Julie Murphy, and Grant Faulkner. NaNoWriMo will also provide participants access to mentorship from authors including Emily X.R. Pan, Mur Lafferty, and Jasmine Guillory. <\/p>\n
This is the 12th year of the Young Writers Program, which brings NaNoWriMo\u2019s unique style of creative writing into classrooms. The YWP helps young writers\u2014participating both in classrooms and independently\u2014set individualized word-count goals and divide their work into daily, achievable milestones. <\/p>\n
\u201cNaNoWriMo gives kids a crazy task, but a real, authentic one: tell your story, whatever story matters to you. It doesn\u2019t matter how you tell it, just that you get it out into the world. Students, even those who thought they hated writing, get invested. It becomes the best part of their day. By the end of the month, they\u2019ve worked hard, developed confidence and new skills, and have their very own novel to show off!\u201d says Marya Brennan, Young Writers program director. (PR)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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