Writing a novel can be a fun, if daunting proposition.  Woburn Public Library and local authors will cheer on, encourage, and rally around aspiring writers this November for a four-part NaNoWriMo Challenge series.  Every Tuesday, from 6-7 PM, local authors will lead a writing workshop covering a range of topics to help writers sharpen their skills and find inspiration.  Following the workshops will be informal writing time with peers and authors available to offer guidance and support.

The topic of this evening's writing workshop is: World-Building.

Presented by Holly Walters.

 

Registration is requested, but not required.  Snacks will be provided.

 

About NaNoWriMo:

National Novel Writing Month began in 1999 as a daunting but straightforward challenge: to write 50,000 words of a novel in thirty days. Now, each year on November 1, hundreds of thousands of people around the world begin to write, determined to end the month with a first draft. They enter the month as elementary school teachers, mechanics, or stay-at-home parents. They leave novelists. NaNoWriMo is internet-famous, hosting authors drafting novels like Elizabeth Acevedo’s With the Fire on High, Rainbow Rowell’s Fangirl, Marissa Meyer’s Cinder, and more. 

 

About Holly:

Holly Walters originally hails from a small, rural, town in Minnesota. A  life-long storyteller, Holly is also a cultural anthropologist with a PhD from Brandeis University working in the high Himalayas of Nepal. While her ethnographic work focuses on fossil folklores and sacred ammonites in South Asia, her creative work pays homage to the dragons, unicorns, and fairy tales of her youth. When not writing, she can be found perfecting her Medieval archery skills, theorizing about movie plots, and forgetting where she left her tea cup. Today, she makes her home in Boston, Massachusetts, with a very unruly garden, a few equally cantankerous pets, a clever spouse, and a resident house ghost. And since her creepy sculpture hobby hasn’t panned out thus far, she is looking forward to the publication of her first novel and the writing of many more.