Reviving the Story

It was only 3 years ago, that Laura starting writing her story again and NaNoWriMo is the organization to thank for this.

After life was passing her by, college, marriage, and full time jobs - she set the story aside on the back burner. In 2004, her husband, Evan joined the National Novel Writing Month to see if he could write 50K in one month. To their amazement, he did more than that! The next year Laura joined him in the journey and attempted the goal, only make it to 13K. To her, that was a great deal of accomplishment, because that 13K restarted her engines for writing the story again. The next year flew by with only 6k and she did not attempt NaNoWriMo in 2006. Only was it that last November did she really get involved into the story. Her word count jumped to 27K with lots of character developments and even illustrations to have visual aids! And to give you an idea of how many pages 27K has, it is roughly 80 pages. That is a loooong thesis paper if you are a student.

Please visit the National Novel Writing Month website to see more details on this great creative writing event. They are a non-profit organization that helps children write stories of their own and also gets YOU pumped to write your own novel. It doesn't have to be 50K to be a winner! You are a winner for attempting at all.