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cmreber
Review for National Novel Writing Month, Berkeley, CA, USA
My experience with The Office of Letters and Light has been nothing but a positive one. I came across this organization through a little something called National Novel Writing Month. I had never even heard of it and once I found out what it was all about, I was not only intrigued but completely and overwhelmingly excited and determined to get involved. Basically it was a marathon for writers; how could I NOT want to get involved?! As a person who is just now publishing my very first novel, I know first hand how incredibly difficult it is to not only find time to write here and there, but to finish an entire novel. NaNoWriMo gives people like me the opportunity and support that might just mean the difference between another half finished manuscript packed away in a box, and a nice, crisp new book on the shelf in Barnes And Nobles waiting to be read by a potential new fan. I feel that the OLL has given hundreds of thousands (if not more) of talented people dying to be authors the chance to make these seemingly frivolous dreams a potential amazing reality.
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my participation in National Novel Writing Month. This past 2010 NaNoWriMo was especially helpful to me as I am publishing my first novel and I was able to use this as an opportunity to get a huge chunk of my sequel finished. The last thing I wanted to do was go three years between novels--which given the nature of writing is all too easy to do--and OLL and it's NaNoWriMo gave me the just the support I needed to get a good start on it, along with thousands of people just like me.
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