Character Development Assignment
Check your email or click this link for your character assignment.
If you have not already done so, send Bowen a "hello" message at bowenowrimo@gmail.com to be entered on the listserv, AND email her your story so far.
Receiving Lessons and Encouragement
We will use your email to send lessons and links throughout the month. It needs to be a web-based email (hotmail, gmail, yahoo etc.) Please send Bowen a "hello" message at bowenowrimo@gmail.com to be entered on the listserv.
If you prefer not to share your email, create a new account: gmail is nice because you can use Google docs to work on your story here, home, or wherever you have web access.
Sharing Your Work
We can't use Facebook on campus--and you might not want to share your drafts that widely yet.
Enter "Drop.io"!"
To share with classmates, first:
SAVE file to your folder.
NAME it as follows:
EITHER the working title, such as WolfTheJourneyHome, OR your name, such as astabowen, OR your initials+novel, such as afbnovel. Please keep the same name for the whole project!
Use "Add Files" button, navigate to your file, select, then click red Drop It button.
To share with Bowen only, first:
SAVE file to your folder.
NAME it as follows:
EITHER the working title, such as WolfTheJourneyHome, OR your name, such as astabowen, OR your initials+novel, such as afbnovel. Please keep the same name for the whole project.
Open your web-based email and send the document as an attachment to bowenowrimo@gmail.com
Reading Classmates' Work
Go to our Drop.io page. Click on any document to read. You are encouraged to comment on one another's works; just mouse over to the right of "document" and click "more," then "comment." YOU MUST SIGN YOUR NAME in the comment, or it may be removed.
Novel Ideas
There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are. ~ William Somerset Maugham
Novel Idea Template (download .doc)
Novel Writing Ideas: How to Get Them
The Next Big Idea for Your Book
Getting and Working with Novel Ideas
Online Story Generators
(These only work well if you can come to "own" the idea--make it completely your own, as if you had thought of it first.)
Seventh Sanctum Story Generator
Writing Process
How To Write A Great Novel (as told by great novelists for the Wall Street Journal)
The Novel Query Letter
In-depth Encouraging Helpful Website
Want more? Google these words: novel query
Glossaries of Publishing Terms
from NaNo Workbook