Day Ten of National Novel Writing Month
We’ve been doing it since before Jane Austen. Girls writing fiction. So in the 2016 National Novel Writing Month, I’m going to guess that a majority of the more than 400,000 participants this year are women. And many will go on to publish their books. Some NYT bestsellers by women that began as NaNoWriMo exercises: - Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen, published by Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill[32]
- The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern, published by Doubleday[33]
- Persistence of Memory by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes, published by Delacorte Press[32]
- Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell, published by St. Martin’s Press[34][35]
- Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins, published by Dutton Juvenile[34][36]
- Cinder by Marissa Meyer, published by Square Fish[34]
My work-in-progress, The Romantics Club, is a third of the way, if you estimate it by words count. I’m now more than 20,000 words (and 85 pages) drafted on an 85,000-word (goal) novel of roughly 335 pages. That’s about the count for my completed novel (available to an interested publisher), The Renaissance Club. And I didn’t do it with a quill and ink. Thank goodness for the digital age!
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