My Nonprofit Reviews

For someone whose lifelong ambition is to be a name on the binding of a book in a Barnes and Nobles, the Office of Letters and Light has found a method of not only encouraging that dream, but helping to make it flourish. Sometimes, the greatest challenge to writing is simply the reality of it's solitude; through the National Novel in A Month event, the walls that separate thousands of individual writers fall away, allowing us to become one massive whole, even if only for a brief time.
I had shied away from my dream for a long time, always finding excuses or rationales to put it off for the next day. OLL managed to crack through that apathy, finding and nourishing the embers deep within. Using names large and small, members of small or large fame, to encourage, cajole, challenge, and inspire.
And for what? Simply to create.
Was every novel a work of art? Probably not. But in a time when the arts are being shoved out of our schools, and media has become obsessed with instant gratification, it boggles my mind to think that hundreds of thousands of people all over the world sat down, put fingers to keyboards, and CREATED. Not for any gain, simply to create.
Isn't that something that should be encouraged, as strongly as possible? I believe it is.

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