NATIONAL NOVEL WRITING MONTH: PS MEET-UPS AT UNION STREET TEA LOUNGE

Where else?

I did NANOWRIMO a few years back. It’s the basis of the novel I am now revising. It’s called “The Last Sublet” and if you’re interested in taking a look let me know.

There will be BROOKLYN Meetups and Write-Ins Once a week:

Tuesday’s at the Union Street Tea Lounge from 7 pm until late.

Thursdays (starting 11/8) will be in Williamsburg at the Alligator Lounge on Metropolitan Avenue (free brick oven pizza with every drink!) from 7-ish to late.

NANO WRIMO IS (here’s the blurb):

National Novel Writing Month is a fun, seat-of-your-pants approach to novel writing. Participants begin writing November 1. The goal is to write a 175-page (50,000-word) novel by midnight, November 30.

In 2006, we had over 79,000 participants. Nearly 13,000 of them crossed the 50k finish line by the midnight deadline, entering into the annals of NaNoWriMo superstardom forever. They started the month as auto mechanics, out-of-work actors, and middle school English teachers. They walked away novelists.

So, to recap:

What: Writing one 50,000-word novel from scratch in a month’s time.

Who: You! We can’t do this unless we have some other people trying it as well. Let’s write laughably awful yet lengthy prose together.

Why: The reasons are endless! To actively participate in one of our era’s most enchanting art forms! To write without having to obsess over quality. To be able to make obscure references to passages from our novels at parties. To be able to mock real novelists who dawdle on and on, taking far longer than 30 days to produce their work.

When: Sign-ups begin October 1, 2007. Writing begins November 1. To be added to the official list of winners, you must reach the 50,000-word mark by November 30 at midnight. Once your novel has been verified by our web-based team of robotic word counters, the partying begins.

Still confused? Just visit the How NaNoWriMo Works page!