Get Your NaNoWriMo On

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news from Lara Tupper

WRITE A NOVEL IN A MONTH

If Halloween isn't scary enough, here's something else to get the adrenalin pumping: NaNoWriMo. November is National Novel Writing Month and depraved writers across the planet are signing up for the challenge. You're invited to write a novel in one month (or a memoir or a story collection--whatever you'd like to do). This is an excellent exercise in quantity (quality is for later), and a good way to get ideas out of your beautiful brain and onto the laptop screen. Allow yourself to be imperfect and messy. My second (very messy) novel came out of this exercise. I encourage you to try it for yourself:

http://nanowrimo.org/


AUDITIONING FOR "THE VOICE"

My latest contribution the THRIVE, the blog for Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health, is about a crazy audition I attended for the "The Voice." Learn why the schlep was worth it:

http://kripalu.org/blog/thrive/2013/10/14/forging-an-edge-or-how-to-audition-for-the-voice/?utm_source=T…