My NaNoNovel

Employment as a correspondent, carried out with enthusiasm, will help us to find an early recognition in professional life. Presuming such recognition will be a reality in five years in any other profession; we can easily say it’ll be on our way within a year, if we serve for the media.

An individual’s image in the media could even help him or her to play with a variety of choices, when it comes to lifetime decisions like marrying.

No wonder if press reporters, during the course of their assignments, come across marriage proposals from architects, doctors and other professionals. They may reject those, but more proposals continue to be there non-stop, till they marry.

In comparison, let us look at laymen who try to marry-off their children (who could be doctors, advocates, businessmen and so on), by registering their names in matrimony websites:

They shell down a fortune for such registration, presuming that they will be able to identify the best match for their son or daughter. What happens after registering according to the latest trend, for example as a vegetarian family interested in alliance with another vegetarian family?

They will be allowed to have 30 phone numbers to start their communication. Going through those, the average rejection will be: For no reason from ten numbers, for horoscope not matching ten numbers and for the sub-caste not matching the remaining ten numbers!

When they say nothing clicked and request for more phone numbers, the matrimony site suggest them in turn to pay more money and become a premium member! When the problem of ‘sub-caste not matching’ is cited, they will be demanded to register in a separate sub-caste website, by again paying a few thousand rupees more!!!

There could be occasions, people pretending to be interested in alliance land up for lunch or dinner, claiming that a personal visit will help the two families to know each other better! The guests of course refrain to say ‘yes’ or ‘no’ to the alliance, either on the spot or after they go back to their home!

Other than the above, registrants receive daily list of ten matching profiles, who hardly respond when contacted. Daily list mailing service stops after a short period of time for want of renewal. Renewal results in nothing other than repetition of the above!

Cycle of the said phenomenon will be in force till you’re fed up and say, ‘Sorry friend, no more renewals!’, though the matrimony websites never ever stop pestering, to get your registration renewed.

Once the above lines are convinced, I think there will be a keenness to know how main character of my NaNoNovel 'Whom to marry?', correspondent of a weekly magazine, weighed and rejected nine top class proposals she came across in her career, and remained in demand even after that.

This novel is likely to relate fifty percent of its content towards the Art of Living, while the remainder is expected to be shared by thirty and twenty percent respectively by journalism and matrimony. 

It's not too late to enter the 'write a new novel' challenge! If you register it on link http://nanowrimo.org/ today, you end up composing as little as 6250 words per day!!!

Four Lies Writers Believe

'I’ve been teaching and coaching writers for four years through the Write Practice. I did the math recently and realized that in the last twelve months, we’ve helped over 2.5 million people become better writers. As a writer and ghostwriter of four books myself, I’ve learned that there are a few common lies that writers tell themselves.' - It's an authoritative statement of Joe Bunting, the World # 1 NaNoWriMo Fan. 

His script below will explain how Writers' Announcements 1, 2, 3 and 4 cannot be a reality. 

Annoncement 1

“I’ll write a book some day.”

If not now, when?

Most people say things like, “I want to write a book,” or even, “I’m working on a book.” I’ve said the same things. But how many people actually write one?

What if you never finish your books? What if you die with your books still trapped inside of you? And here’s a terrifying thought: 

Most people do die with their books unwritten. This happens all the time. Will you be one of them?

You have a chance to write your book. Isn’t it time you do it?

Writing a book is hard, but if you create a plan and stick with it, you will finish.

(Of course, sticking with it is really the hardest part. But that’s where a community comes in. More on that in a moment, though.)

Annoncement 2

“You can’t make any money as a writer.”

Yes, historically there were writers who were very poor, like Edgar Allen Poe and Herman Melville.

But some writers were also very rich, like J.K. Rowling, Earnest Hemingway, and Dr. Seuss.

Writers are just people, and people come in all shapes, sizes, and net worth.

I know many people who have made successful careers off their writing. Carlos Cooper, a friend and former contributor to The Write Practice, started writing regularly just a few years ago, and now makes his full-time living off his writing.

When I started writing professionally a few years ago, I made less than $10,000 the first year. Now, I’m able to support myself and my family with my words.

Making writing a career, not just a hobby, is possible, and in some ways it’s easier than ever. Don’t believe the lie that you can’t make money as a writer.

Annoncement 3

“It’s just too hard.”

Yes, writing is hard, but plenty of people do it every day. People who are less intelligent than you have done it. People who aren’t as talented as you have done it. You can do it, too.

Is writing really too hard? Or is this a lie you tell yourself out of self-sabotage?

If you’ve ever felt like writing was just too hard, that you just lack the willpower or the talent or the discipline, then you’re not alone. Even writers who have been writing for years feel like this sometimes.

Earlier this week, I was talking to a successful, best-selling author who was questioning his entire career. 

Your job is to not figure out what you’re legacy is going to be. Your job is to do the work.

Annoncement 4

“I can do this on my own.”

The truth is most writers never finish their books. We’re in the first week of NaNoWriMo, when hundreds of thousands of people attempt to write a book in just a month.

However, less than eleven percent of people who start NaNoWriMo complete their projects. What’s the difference between those who finish and those who don’t?

Perseverance, of course, but there’s an often-overlooked secret that successful writers have been using for centuries. Hemingway used it. Tolkien used it. Mary Shelley, the author of Frankenstein, used it.

It’s community.

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“It takes a village to raise a child,” said Toni Morrison. In the same way, it takes a community to birth a book.

That’s why I created Becoming Writer. When I started writing, it took a community of people to help me finish my work.

For seven years, I aspired to be a writer but never finished anything. Then something changed, and in the past four years, I’ve published more than a thirty articles literary journals, national magazines, and newspapers, started one of the most popular writing sites in the world, and written or ghost-written four books.

What was the difference?

Community.

You might be thinking, No. That might be true for some people. But I can handle this on my own. I don’t need encouragement or help. I just need a great idea, a blank page, and some extra time.

To that, I say, “Ok. Good luck with that.”

Because you’ve probably tried to do that before already. You’ve probably had that great idea before,and never finished writing the book.

Why do you think this time is going to be different?

- Joe Bunting