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WOW, are the Nanowrimo.org forums are already ablaze with posts. I can’t keep up (especially since it loads so slowly).
For the uninitiated, National Novel Writing Month is November of every year. We have an on-line community at nanowrimo.org., but the community is spilling out all over in interesting ways.
Firstly, let’s talk forums. [...]

I’m teaching myself the art of fiction, so I expect a learning curve. Plotting BEFORE one writes is probably easier than what I’m doing, which is trying to fit a commercial plot onto what I have already written. This month I’m determined to outline the plot I’ve been working [...]

Book descriptions on alibris are a great help with getting together a logline and a book description for your own (not written or not finished) novel. A solid logline and short book description are the key starting points to effective novel-length storytelling. Once you have these in place, you can constantly refer back [...]

National Novel Writing Month comes soon. Go and register. The forums and chatrooms are fun stuff.