YWP Press Clippings

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2007 Stories

Kansas City Star
"Alex, a senior at Blue Valley North High School, is working on his fourth novel. Each November, he participates in National Novel Writing Month, an event where participants have just one month to pen a 50,000-word novel." 12/07

Chicago Tribune
"I think the beauty of this is that I'm not grading what they are writing. It allows them to unhinge the trap door of ideas," said Rushek. "I'm of the holistic perspective that one must write before they write well." 11/07

Chicago Public Radio
F. Scott Fitzgerald spent eight years writing Tender Is the Night. Finnegan's Wake took James Joyce seventeen years to complete. But this November, some Chicagoans are joining a global community of writers trying to finish novels in just 30 days as part of National Novel Writing Month, or NaNoWriMo. Audio clip & transcript 11/07

The Jakarta Post
"With a kamikaze writing approach that forces writers to lower their expectations, take risks and write on the fly, 16 Indonesian children succeeded in writing "novels" with a combined total of 118,110 words in a month-long writing competition in November." 11/07

Antelope Valley Press
"Here's a novel idea. Give portable keyboards to 31 fourth-graders and give them
30 days to write a 6,000-word novel and see what happens." 11/07

Poly Prep Country Day School Newspaper
"'In that sense, calling ourselves novelists and taking part in a huge national project helped the kids see that their writing had a wider impact and other purpose than simply to write things for me to grade!'" 11/07

2006 Stories

Writing for Teens Magazine
“Sometimes the thing you want to do least is write, and sometimes the thing you want to do most is write. Either way, NaNoWriMo is a race to the finish, so you have to write.” 05/06

Home Education Magazine
“As a homeschool mom with dreams of writing, but a reality of writing grocery lists, lesson plans, and notification letters to the school superintendent, I was intrigued when I heard about National Novel Writing Month.” 05/06

The Washington Post
"If this growth rate is constant and participation is cumulative, then every American will be writing a novel in November 2027. We'll be a country made entirely of boozing, tortured authors." 11/06

Boston Globe
"Amiya Seligman, also 10, was about halfway through her 8,000-word story about a land of magical creatures, a baby who's reincarnated every 5,000 years, and an epic battle between good and evil." 11/06

National Public Radio
"To help you along, we've asked fiction writers from all genres for the essence of noveling: how they write, how they overcome writer's block and their best written sentence. Each weekday this month, we'll publish another novelist’s thoughts. Check back for novelists as varied as Neal Pollack, Rita Mae Brown and Joyce Carol Oates." 11/06

The Utne Reader
"Forget the archetypal image of the brooding writer buried in a heap of crumpled paper. There will be no time for perfectionism or procrastination in November as a projected 75,000 would-be novelists attempt to pound out 50,000 words in 30 days." 11/06

Radio Iowa
"Still, she says better than any prize is the discovery you've done something you didn't think possible." 11/06

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