Write a Novel in 30 Days? Sure...

Absolutely the best part of deciding I'm going to write a novel is reconnecting with writer friends whom I've fallen out-of-touch with in the last few years. My great good buddy and grad school roomie Amy Miller is an inspiration. Now a budding picture book author, Amy and I met in the Spalding University MFA program during an international residency in Rome and Tuscany (absolutely magical and the subject of a future blog post). Our friendship was cemented during my visit to Louisville where Amy plies her craft, and travel to Ireland and Prague (sigh). Now the Executive Director of Louisville Literary Arts, we connected via Zoom recently and I mentioned that I'm in the preplanning stages of writing a novel.

Me: I keep seeing classes for writing your novel in 100 days so it must be possible to write one pretty fast...

Amy: We're holding a class on how to write a novel in 30 days.

Me: Thirty days! That seems impossible.

Amy: ...Well, you know that's what NaNoWriMo is all about...

Somehow I'd missed the bit about writing THE ENTIRE novel in 30 days the first time around.

So this year I'm getting professional help.

Jennifer Hester Mattox, a nine time winner of NaNoWriMo, is teaching an online class for Louisville Literary Arts in partnership with the Carnegie Center for Literacy and Learning. I've signed up. It's October 8 at 7:00 pm ET. I have one buddy for #NaNoWriMo2020 and I'm thinking about putting together a team (gasp!). I hope my buddies will take the class with me so we're all as prepared as we can be for the November writing marathon. Here's a link in case this sounds as good to you as it does to me! https://www.louisvilleliteraryarts.org/webinar-descriptions