As April approaches, I'm getting really excited and totally ready for Script Frenzy, so I've been surfing around the website of the Office of Letters and Light (the parent nonprofit) and found a link to this article about kids doing NaNo in class.
One of the comments was really inspired, and I thought I'd share it, so here it is:
Posted on 9/14/2009 3:49pm
I have participated in NaNoWriMo for the last three years. The first two I didn't make it past 20,000 words and then suddenly last year I cracked it with 50,000+. Without NaNoWriMo I would not be the person I am today. NaNoWriMo gave me the will to write, no matter the quality.
Now I am a collage student attending collage level english and writing courses which I fly through with ease. All thanks to NaNoWriMo.
In 2007 my dad died and I thought I might just give up on everything, but working on the re-writes of my novel helped pull me through, and sure, it was some pretty dark writing, but it allowed my to get my thoughts out on the page.
To all those nay-sayers out there I respond with: "Get the sticks out of your behinds." I don't care if you are a professional novelist who has publish a hundred books, if you can not see the pure wonderful value of NaNoWriMo then you can not possibly be in tune with the world around you.
NaNoWriMo teaches everyone that it doesn't matter who you are or where you come from. it doesn't matter if you are rich or poor. It does not matter if you know all the prose and styles. All that truely matters are the words, flowing from the pure creativity in the writers soul, out onto the page.
Style and the like is useful and eventually perhaps even nessacary, however from my point of view it is worthless without the base joy of writing that comes from writing.
Words are power, plain and true. Our entire world is built on words and it is time that everyone learns to wield their power. Now everyone can create words. Equal.
And furthermore thanks to the wonderful advantages of the internet, low and behold I don't need to go through the hassel of getting published! I can simply post it on amazaon or some other site. So you know what all you people who think so much of your 'published work'? Your 'Published work aint worth a pile of turtle excrement, becuase I am the one who is doing real work. I am the one who is creating the words that will last through the ages.
We are writers. Every single one of us. And we are strong.
Now I am a collage student attending collage level english and writing courses which I fly through with ease. All thanks to NaNoWriMo.
In 2007 my dad died and I thought I might just give up on everything, but working on the re-writes of my novel helped pull me through, and sure, it was some pretty dark writing, but it allowed my to get my thoughts out on the page.
To all those nay-sayers out there I respond with: "Get the sticks out of your behinds." I don't care if you are a professional novelist who has publish a hundred books, if you can not see the pure wonderful value of NaNoWriMo then you can not possibly be in tune with the world around you.
NaNoWriMo teaches everyone that it doesn't matter who you are or where you come from. it doesn't matter if you are rich or poor. It does not matter if you know all the prose and styles. All that truely matters are the words, flowing from the pure creativity in the writers soul, out onto the page.
Style and the like is useful and eventually perhaps even nessacary, however from my point of view it is worthless without the base joy of writing that comes from writing.
Words are power, plain and true. Our entire world is built on words and it is time that everyone learns to wield their power. Now everyone can create words. Equal.
And furthermore thanks to the wonderful advantages of the internet, low and behold I don't need to go through the hassel of getting published! I can simply post it on amazaon or some other site. So you know what all you people who think so much of your 'published work'? Your 'Published work aint worth a pile of turtle excrement, becuase I am the one who is doing real work. I am the one who is creating the words that will last through the ages.
We are writers. Every single one of us. And we are strong.
