{"id":6497,"date":"2015-10-09T07:49:13","date_gmt":"2015-10-09T11:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/?p=6497"},"modified":"2015-10-08T14:54:08","modified_gmt":"2015-10-08T18:54:08","slug":"national-novel-writing-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2015\/10\/09\/national-novel-writing-month\/","title":{"rendered":"National Novel Writing Month"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>“November 1-30. The world needs your novel.”\u00a0 — National Novel Writing Month<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

If you know me, you know I am a big sucker for NaNoWriMo.\u00a0 And that I often don’t finish and have taken myself out of the running for a little while in order to work on started but not finished novels.\u00a0 This doesn’t mean that NaNoWriMo is no longer a big part of my November thinking.\u00a0 To the contrary.\u00a0 Though I won’t be urging you to join me on the NaNoWriMo, I am urging you to find the novel deep within that you never really believed you could write.\u00a0 Find it, and believe me, You Can Write It!\u00a0 Whether you sign up for NaNoWriMo or not, write with me this fall.\u00a0 I want to read your story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“November 1-30. The world needs your novel.”\u00a0 — National Novel Writing Month If you know me, you know I am a big sucker for NaNoWriMo.\u00a0 And that I often don’t finish and have taken myself out of the running for a little while in order to work on started but not finished novels.\u00a0 This doesn’t… Continue reading National Novel Writing Month<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[89,8,55],"class_list":["post-6497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-challenges","tag-nanowrimo","tag-writing-2"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3734,"url":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2013\/04\/01\/national-novel-writing-month-spring-writing-marathon\/","url_meta":{"origin":6497,"position":0},"title":"National Novel Writing Month Spring Writing Marathon","author":"leems","date":"April 1, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"I've trumpeted National Novel Writing Month a ton on this here blog.\u00a0 I have enjoyed every year I have participated.\u00a0 Not only have they created an environment of encouragement and commiseration for people who may have never ventured into writing otherwise (my Mother), but they do great things to encourage\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Blog"","block_context":{"text":"Blog","link":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/category\/blog\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":545,"url":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2011\/10\/19\/in-the-spirit-of-nanowrimo\/","url_meta":{"origin":6497,"position":1},"title":"In the spirit of NaNoWriMo","author":"leems","date":"October 19, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"\u00a0 So, in the spirit of National Novel Writing Month, I have made mock-up covers to replace two of the 'image coming soon' notices on my stories page.\u00a0 They just happen to be for the stories that have a finished draft--that was totally accidental.\u00a0 I still have no idea what\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Blog"","block_context":{"text":"Blog","link":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/category\/blog\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.theleemsmachine.com\/images\/PenelopeSeacolor50.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":7497,"url":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2016\/11\/01\/nanowrimo-2016\/","url_meta":{"origin":6497,"position":2},"title":"NaNoWriMo 2016","author":"leems","date":"November 1, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"\u00a0 National Novel Writing Month is here again.\u00a0 For those who've never tried it, now is the year.\u00a0 It is wonderful to dive into the deep end of a creative project and know that a whole world of people are diving in with you.\u00a0 Besides inspiring people of all ages\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Blog"","block_context":{"text":"Blog","link":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/category\/blog\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/d1lj9l30x2igqs.cloudfront.net\/nano-2013\/files\/2013\/09\/Shield-Nano-Side-Blue-Brown-RGB-HiRes.png?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/d1lj9l30x2igqs.cloudfront.net\/nano-2013\/files\/2013\/09\/Shield-Nano-Side-Blue-Brown-RGB-HiRes.png?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/d1lj9l30x2igqs.cloudfront.net\/nano-2013\/files\/2013\/09\/Shield-Nano-Side-Blue-Brown-RGB-HiRes.png?resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":11,"url":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2010\/10\/29\/nanowrimo-national-novel-writing-month\/","url_meta":{"origin":6497,"position":3},"title":"NaNoWriMo: National Novel Writing Month","author":"leems","date":"October 29, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Every year, so why don't you go sign up already.\u00a0 And while you're there, visit me:\u00a0 http:\/\/www.nanowrimo.org\/eng\/user\/422254.\u00a0 We can be friends and hold hands in a meadow of sunshine and I will pick on you for not writing last night. 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