What to do the rest of the year?

Related Writing Events

List initially compiled by Atalanta, the ML from NY::Elsewhere. See this OpenOffice.org document

Pledge to Publish

• Now you have a written novel... What do you do to get it published? Pledge to Publish is a local writing group that helps writers commit to and complete every step in the pre-publishing process.
• See http://pledging.teiru.net for the Pledge text. Contact NewMexicoKid for more information.

National Novel Finishing Month (NaNoFiMo) in December

• Write 30,000 new words and reach The End.
• http://www.nanofimo.org/

January Novel Writing Month (JanNoWriMo)

• Write a 50,000 word novel. May not be active anymore.
• http://www.ymakadomain.com/janno/

National Novel Editing Month (NaNoEdMo) in March

• Commit to 50 hours of novel editing.
• http://www.nanoedmo.net/

Script Frenzy in June

• Write a 20,000 word script; can be done with a partner. Managed by the Office of Letters and Light, the same people who manage NaNoWriMo.
• http://www.scriptfrenzy.org/

July Novel Writing Month (JulNoWriMo)

• Write 50,000 words for a new or unfinished manuscript.
• http://julnowrimo.thewrigro.com/

National Novel Publishing Year (NaNoPubYe)

• Step-by-step publishing support.
• http://www.nanopubye.org/

National Novel Writing Year (NaNoWriYe)

• Pursue a word-count goal for all of 2008.
• http://www.pro-board.com/index.php?proboard=nanowriye2008

NaNoWorld

• Year round writing or editing with online forums for support

  The rules are simple:
  
  1) You can either Edit for a month, or Write for a month.
  --> Writing can be a new project or completing an existing one.
  --> Editing goals are number of pages to edit
  OR number of hours to spend editing.
  --> Rewriting can be done under editing or writing.

• http://nanoworld.suddenlaunch3.com/index.cgi (run by Kyteroo)