My Nonprofit Reviews

I'm about to self publish my debut novel, Inconstant Moon, as well as being nearly finished writing the first draft of my next. Although I was a professional screenwriter before taking an extended motherhood hiatus, I was more than ready to make the switch to novelist, but NaNoWriMo provided the impetus (and a deadline!) to get started.

I heard about NaNoWriMo from my sister-in-law (and dedicatee) who had been participating & yalking about it for years.

One of the truly great things is that there is as much or as little peer-to-peer support as you want, whether you plan to publish professionally or simply get an idea of what writing a novel is like.

As well as facilitation of support, community & motivation, the Office of Letters and Light also offers a plethora of reference tools that weren't available to ordinary people back when I first set out to write a novel in high school and concluded I wasn't a writer because I didn't know what I was doing. I eventually became a writer anyway, but I had to figure everything out the hard way.

NaNoWriMo will always have a special place in my heart for helping me to regain my first love of writing.

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