{"id":16,"date":"2013-11-07T01:00:35","date_gmt":"2013-11-07T01:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.paperstone.co.uk\/Wordpress\/?p=16"},"modified":"2016-01-21T12:09:31","modified_gmt":"2016-01-21T12:09:31","slug":"calling_all_budding_writers_","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paperstone.co.uk\/News\/articles\/calling_all_budding_writers_","title":{"rendered":"Calling all Budding Writers!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Budding Novelists\" width=\"300\" src=\"\/images\/NewsImages\/2013\/Budding-Novelist.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Calling all budding writers! Can you write a novel in a month?<\/p>\n<p>It might sound impossible, but the first draft of historical novel Water for Elephants &ndash; now a film on general release- was written by Sara Gruen in just 30 days.<\/p>\n<p>Gruen wrote the book as part of National Novel Writing Month- and this year half a million aspiring novelists will attempt to follow in her footsteps!<\/p>\n<p>The aim of the event is for entrants from all over the world to write 50,000 words of a novel during the 30 days of November 2013. The deadline is 11.59.59 on November 30!<\/p>\n<p>You can choose any genre for your literary project; horror, romance, fantasy &#8230; erotica! Whatever inspires you to tell a story.<\/p>\n<p>To help you get started, remember Ernest Hemingway&rsquo;s writing tips:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&bull; Use short sentences<\/li>\n<li>&bull; Use short paragraphs<\/li>\n<li>&bull; Use forceful, emphatic English<\/li>\n<li>&bull; Be positive, not negative in the words you choose<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Hemingway once told fellow novelist F Scott Fitzgerald: &ldquo;I write one page of masterpiece to ninety-one pages of ****. I try to put the **** in the wastebasket.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>To sign up for the challenge, visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/nanowrimo.org\/\">National Novel Writing Month website.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Calling all budding writers! Can you write a novel in a month? It might sound impossible, but the first draft of historical novel Water for Elephants &ndash; now a film on general release- was written by Sara Gruen in just 30 days. 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