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AlmaDelCore
Review for National Novel Writing Month, Berkeley, CA, USA
National Novel Writing Month is a fabulous nonprofit organization that inspires and excites thousands of people every year as it begins to approach. There is suddenly an adventure to be had and to be lived every November, and all are invited to take part of it, even those still in high school and middle school through the Young Writer's Program. We are invited to strike down the monotony of our day-to-day life and celebrate creativity, imagination, and all of the richness that comes with it. We find a support group on the forums and through our municipal leaders, who are local individuals who coordinate gatherings where one may have writing wars and the like to up one's word count.
The Office of Letters and Light has seen fit to give thousands of people an identity, even if for the month of November alone, that of a writer. As November concludes, many receive yet another: novelist. There is no telling how much self-confidence they have raised, how many friendships they have created, and how much wrong they have prevented just by encouraging people to delve into art for a month every year.
Bravo to OLL. May they continue this program and create many others as the years go by. Thank you.
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I've personally experienced the results of this organization in...
My everyday life. Even though I am a music major in college, my enrollment in the Honors Program here demands that I complete a graduate-level thesis in order to receive my Bachelor's degree. National Novel Writing Month inspired me to make my thesis a novel, and I am writing 5,000 words a week on average.
If I had to make changes to this organization, I would...
Give them more funding and more employees, so that more programs might be created to let creativity flourish.
