My Nonprofit Reviews
Miss_Moppet
Review for National Novel Writing Month, Berkeley, CA, USA
I have spent my entire life saying I was going to write a novel. It was a dream. But I never could find the time or the energy or inclination to do it. Then I heard about NaNoWriMo from a friend. I joined the website, I watched the videos and read the letters of encouragment. I followed the steps and I wrote a novel. Then I wrote a second one.
This organization does more than encourage swiftly and shoddily produced books (though it does do that with great joy) but it gave me the tools to make my dream come true. The Office of Letters and Light encourages you by sending videos and letters and words of wisdom. They also collect donations to encourage children to engage in their world through writing. I wish that I'd had an organization like this around when I was a kid. I'd have written a novel long before I hit my thirties.
Without NaNoWriMo and the Office of Letter and Light, I would never have known this joy, this sense of fulfillment and I would never have been able to utter the words, "I'm a novelist".
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I've personally experienced the results of this organization in...
writing a novel through their site, NaNoWriMo.org. I participated in their online discussion boards, watched and shared videos and letters from other writers that they sent to me.
If I had to make changes to this organization, I would...
make sure more people understood what it does and achieves.
