October is for Reading
Published October 20, 2006 by John
I didn’t know that October was quite the month for readers. Besides
the local Wisconsin Book Festival going on this weekend, there is…
- the posting of the National Book Award 2006 finalists
- it’s National Book Month, although I’m not really sure what that means.
- the National Book Festival, in Washington, D.C. was on September 30, but that’s pretty close, and I’m sure the revelry went on well past midnight.
- book festivals in Texas, New Jersey, West Virginia, Baltimore and beyond
But don’t wear yourself out this month, because November is National Novel Writing Month, where the challenge is to write a 50,000 novel between Nov 1 and midnight of Nov 30. As they say, “the only thing that matters is output.” Drafts and editing are luxuries you will have to do without.
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