My Nonprofit Reviews
KCRiggs
Review for National Novel Writing Month, Berkeley, CA, USA
I dove into NANOWRIMO (National Novel Writing Month) on October 30th 2008. I've competed (and won! wooooooo!) and donated to the Office of Letters and Light in 2008, 2009 and 2010. I intend to write a novel every November for the rest of my life, and donate to OLL every year as well. It is the most fun, and most important writing tool I have found to date. The notion (to write a 50,000 word novel in the 30 days of each November) is brilliant. It is a contest with yourself that includes tens of thousands of cheerleaders the world over, urging you to keep writing-the hardest thing for writers to do. And on top of that, OLL has taken the joy of writing to the schools. Donations help run free NANOWRIMO programs in schools-encouraging our children to write! Harry Potter reawakened the joy of reading. I think the Young Writer's Program can inspire the future JK Rowlings. Keep up the stellar work.
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I've personally experienced the results of this organization in...
My first novel, written in NANO 2008 is being edited in hopes of publishing soon. Novels 2 and 3 await their turns.
If I had to make changes to this organization, I would...
Give OLL more help during the year and more server capacity. Double the school programs for young writers!
