Have you always wanted to write a novel but been scared away by the time and effort involved? National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) is a nonprofit event that encourages writers to tackle the challenge of completing a novel in the month of November. Valuing enthusiasm and perseverance over painstaking craft, NaNoWriMo is a fun, seat-of-your-pants approach to novel writing. Launched in 1999, NaNoWriMo inspires its over 250,000 participants with email pep talks, a huge and supportive online community, and a host of web-based writing tools. Over the years, many novels written during NaNoWriMo have gone on to be revised, perfected, and ultimately published, including Sara Gruen’s bestselling Water for Elephants.
What better place than the Library to provide inspiration to aspiring novelists? This year, the Sachem Public Library will host two “write-ins” where NaNoWriMo participants can work together as a group while sharing encouragement and commiseration. We’ll provide the coffee. So come “write” in to the Library on Friday, November 2, 5:00pm—9:00pm and Monday, November 12, 10:00am—2:00pm.
Sign up for NanNoWriMo and join the online community here.
