National Novel Writing Month

[Cat Hamilton]

I don't think I ever got the original post to this thread.  Where is this 
contest and how does a person sign up?

--Cat


>From: "David Gentle" <Gentle_Family at btinternet.com>
>To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>Subject: Re: National Novel Writing Month
>Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 05:14:04 +0100
>
> > National Novel Writing Month is a fun,
> > seat-of-your-pants approach to novel writing.
> > Participants begin writing November 1. The goal is to
> > write a 175-page (50,000-word) novel by midnight,
> > November 30....
>I did this last year and thought about posting it to the list this year. 
>But I forgot. I didn't
>actualy finish my "novel" but i got about 30000 words done in the time 
>aloted to me. Remeber: 1333
>words a day sounds easy but you're better off aiming for 5000. Also other 
>writters may want to plan
>their noevls rather than taking on the banzai spirit and making it up as 
>they go along (as i did
>last year and will do again this year).
>
>David Gentle


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