WNBA-SF Lunch n’ Learn
Ready, Set, NANO! National Novel Writing Month Prep Session with Award-winning author and fifteen-time NaNoWriMo winner Nita Sweeney
Friday, October 29, 2021 at Noon PT
Congratulations on signing up for National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo)! No, you can’t write yet, but you can PREPARE! In this fun lunch n’ learn, Nita Sweeney, award-winning author, writing and meditation coach, and fifteen-time NaNoWriMo winner will help you prepare NaNoWriMo success.
Bring paper and pen or your trusty laptop. We’ll brainstorm and chat. Whether you’re a plotter, a pantser, or a plantser, every bit of preparation will help carry you across the NaNoWriMo finish line. No matter if it’s your first Nano or your fifteenth, this session will help you start strong.
Nita’s first book, the running and mental health memoir, Depression Hates a Moving Target: How Running with My Dog Brought Me Back from the Brink was a multi-year NaNoWriMo project. Her second book, You Should Be Writing: A Journal of Inspiration & Instruction to Keep Your Pen Moving, coauthored with Brenda Knight, offers author wisdom to help you on your NaNoWriMo journey.
In this workshop Nita will discuss:
- How to choose a NaNoWriMo project
- What to do now (before you start writing in November)
- Plot, characters, theme, oh my!
- Build community to help (or hinder) your November progress
- What “fuel” to stock up
- How to prepare your writing “machine”
- And much more!
About Nita:
Nita Sweeney is the award-winning wellness author of the running and mental health memoir, Depression Hates a Moving Target: How Running with My Dog Brought Me Back from the Brink and co-creator with Brenda Knight of the writing journal, You Should Be Writing: A Journal of Inspiration & Instruction to Keep Your Pen Moving. A certified meditation leader, mental health advocate, ultramarathoner, and former assistant to writing practice originator Natalie Goldberg, Nita founded the groups Mind, Mood, and Movement to support well-being through meditation, exercise, and writing practice, and The Writer’s Mind, to share using writing practice to produce publishable work. Nita also publishes the writing resource newsletter, Write Now Columbus. Nita lives in central Ohio with her husband, Ed, and their yellow Labrador retriever, Scarlet. Download your free copy of Nita’s eBook Three Ways to Heal Your Mind.
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