Library to participate in monthlong writing event

Have you been thinking about writing the next great American novel, but just haven’t completed it, or even started it yet?

If that literary genius in you is still struggling to come out, National Novel Writing Month can be what pushes you to write that novel you have been thinking of for years.

National Novel Writing Month, also widely known as NaNoWriMo, is a monthlong challenge for budding writers to compose 50,000 words in 30 days. Last year more than 250,000 writers around the world took part in the event. It all begins with an idea, the desire to get 50,000 words together in a novel and to finish by Nov. 30.

Pinal County has an author who participated in NaNoWriMo and had a published novel from his efforts. Caris O’Malley wrote “The Egg Said Nothing” in 2010. This book is available from the Pinal County Library District.

Six Pinal County libraries will be celebrating NaNoWriMo:
   • Maricopa Public Library
   • Apache Junction Public Library
   • Vista Grande Library
   • Eloy Santa Cruz Library
   • Florence Community Library
   • Superior Public Library

To learn more about what Pinal County libraries will be doing for this year’s NaNoWriMo, visit the Calendar of Events at www.pinalcountyaz.gov/library. Or you can go to www.nanowrimo.org for help in discovering the writer in you.