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Intern Insights: Writing & Moustaches in November
by Janet
Art & Photography + Gift & Stationery + Vancouver / November 03, 2011
It's NOVEMBER! You know what that means: stores are breaking out the Christmas specials, Starbucks has their Candy Cane lattes and men grow 
their moustaches for a good cause (Movember).
It also is, in the literary and online world, National Novel Writing Month! NaNoWriMo is "30 days of literary abandon" and what better way to get started on your next novel than with a Moleskine and NaNoWriMo's own “Ready, Set, Novel!” (Chronicle Books)?
The spirit of writing a novel in a month isn't to churn out the next bestseller or Nobel prize winner, it's to connect online with fellow word-lovers and to find your creative self. Write with abandon for the next thirty days and you may be surprised at what turns up.
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"Ready, Set, Novel!" is a great writing workbook. Whether you're a first time novelist or seasoned writer, it has a lot of great prompts and exercises to get your brain thinking about the world you're about to create.
My book is slowly filling up, it's one of two writing tools I always carry around. The other is my Reporter Moleskine.
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Here are some great resources and tips to get you started on your masterpiece:
- The Snowflake Method - starting a novel and staring at a blank page can be daunting but with the Snowflake Method you can start with the big picture and work your way into the details.
- Creative Writing Exercises - some great prompts by Penn State University's creative writing course
- Nine Steps to a Novel - Author Garth Nix's 9 Steps
- Craft of Writing - Science Fiction Writers of America's blogs with many writing tips and strategies
"There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down in front of a typewriter and bleed." —Ernest Hemingway
