My Nonprofit Reviews
Rook at the Door
Review for National Novel Writing Month, Berkeley, CA, USA
How does one encourage creativity? A challenge to write 50,000 words in 30 days? Well yes, that would get all us enthusiastic, in the closet novelists all fired up.
That's Nanowrimo, one program put on by OLL.
As a participant and winner of 2010 Nanowrimo I can say...it works. It makes you write, talk to other writers, encourage them...create. And when you get bogged down at word 26,592 and you think that you won't ever finish? Well then they teach you how to be really creative, convince you to let go of your "author-ly" OCD on correct spelling and wording and sounding "professional" and really get down and create.
Nanowrimo and OLL encourage creativity plain and simple. They have the formula...the key... the magic touch. The best advice I got? The words that freed up my stream-of -consciousness creative writing?
"You are not writing the World's Greatest Novel, you are writing the DRAFT of the World's Greatest Novel.” Permission granted to be creative and the framework in which to do so.
Bravo Nanowrimo and OLL for your efforts to increase literacy and creativity and the ongoing survival of the written word. You are to be lauded...and you have my most sincere thanks.
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