{"id":2319,"date":"2018-11-04T01:48:01","date_gmt":"2018-11-04T01:48:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aulibrarynews.wordpress.com\/?p=2319"},"modified":"2018-11-04T01:48:01","modified_gmt":"2018-11-04T01:48:01","slug":"november-is-national-novel-writing-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/aulibrarynews\/2018\/11\/04\/november-is-national-novel-writing-month\/","title":{"rendered":"November is National Novel Writing Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Get inspired by the NaNoWriMo Challenge!<\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><span style=\"color:#000000\">What do <em>New York Times<\/em> Bestsellers\u00a0<em>Water for Elephants<\/em>, <em>Wool<\/em>\u00a0and <em>Fangirl<\/em>\u00a0have in common?<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51F%2Be7mWnhL.jpg\" alt=\"Image result for water for elephants\" width=\"225\" height=\"338\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/61bOJkwcVCL._SX331_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg\" alt=\"Image result for wool (book)\" width=\"225\" height=\"338\" \/>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/61n7mFxr7DL.jpg\" alt=\"Image result for fan girl book\" width=\"222\" height=\"336\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color:#000000\">They all began as a part of National Novel Writing Month&#8217;s 30 day challenge.\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\"><span style=\"font-family:Constantia, Hoefler Text, serif;font-size:large\">Ever wanted to write a book?\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family:Constantia, Hoefler Text, serif;font-size:large\">Take the NaNoWriMo challenge to write a 50,000 word novel in just one month. Time to dust off those story ideas and give yourself a deadline to get that novel finished!\u00a0 National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) began in 1999 as an annual, Internet-based creative writing project.\u00a0<span style=\"font-family:Constantia, 'Hoefler Text', serif;font-size:large\">Participants can register at nanowrimo.org for support as they attempt to write a\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family:Constantia, 'Hoefler Text', serif;font-size:large\">50,000 word manuscript between November 1 and November 30. <\/span><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color:#000000\"><span style=\"font-family:Constantia, Hoefler Text, serif;font-size:large\"><span style=\"font-family:Constantia, 'Hoefler Text', serif;font-size:large\">Sound crazy or exhilarating?\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color:#000000\"><span style=\"font-family:Constantia, 'Hoefler Text', serif;font-size:large;color:#000000\">No pressure if you aren&#8217;t ready to commit to an entire novel just yet.<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family:Constantia, 'Hoefler Text', serif;font-size:large;color:#000000\">Join other aspiring writers Friday, November 16th at 7pm in the BookEnd Cafe of Herrick Library for an evening of creative writing, discussion, and share your story!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-2320 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/aulibrarynews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2018\/11\/nanowrimo.jpg\" alt=\"nanowrimo\" width=\"461\" height=\"454\" \/><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>For more information:<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/nanowrimo.org\/\">NaNoWriMo Official Website<\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a title=\"11.09.2018\" href=\"https:\/\/aulibrarynews.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/11\/11-09-2018.pdf\">11.09.2018<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2322\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/aulibrarynews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2018\/11\/what-is-nanowrimo.png\" alt=\"what-is-nanowrimo\" width=\"620\" height=\"350\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Get inspired by the NaNoWriMo Challenge! What do New York Times Bestsellers\u00a0Water for Elephants, Wool\u00a0and Fangirl\u00a0have in common? \u00a0 They all began as a part of National Novel Writing Month&#8217;s 30 day challenge.\u00a0 Ever wanted to write a book?\u00a0Take the NaNoWriMo challenge to write a 50,000 word novel in just one month. Time to dust [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":2322,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/aulibrarynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2319"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/aulibrarynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/aulibrarynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/aulibrarynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/aulibrarynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/aulibrarynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/aulibrarynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/aulibrarynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/aulibrarynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/aulibrarynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}