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: Character Creation & Development.

Presented by Maria Vetrano.

 

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 Maria:

Maria Vetrano tried to save the whales when she was nine years old. It didn’t quite work. But that didn’t quell her desire to ease some of the world’s ills in some small way, even if only through fiction. She is the mother of one young adult daughter and currently lives with her wife and animal family in Massachusetts. When she’s not writing, Maria is the principal of Vetrano Communications, the PR and marketing firm she founded in 2004 that specializes in tech clientele. Maria is also a lounge singer who’s entertained audiences in Boston, Cambridge, and Provincetown. Along with her wife, she created Against the Tide, a fundraising event to fight breast cancer. She is a graduate of Colgate University with a BA in English literature.