{"id":76,"date":"2010-11-22T19:30:42","date_gmt":"2010-11-22T19:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/trinshots\/2010\/11\/22\/nanowrimo\/"},"modified":"2010-11-22T19:30:42","modified_gmt":"2010-11-22T19:30:42","slug":"nanowrimo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/trinshots\/2010\/11\/22\/nanowrimo\/","title":{"rendered":"Trinity Participates in National Novel Writing Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"mt-image-left\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.trincoll.edu\/trinshots\/NaNoWriMo.jpeg\" width=\"448\" height=\"336\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This photo was taken last weekend at The Allan K. Smith Writing Center, which&nbsp;has now held two write-ins at Trinity as part of National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo).&nbsp; NaNoWriMo is an organization that encourages writers to dedicate a month (November) to sitting down and writing a 50,000 word novel.&nbsp; Writers register online at nanowrimo.org and sign in to the region in which they&#8217;ll be writing their novel; this provides writers with nearby support, but also adds a competitive aspect as various regions enter word count wars with each other. Trinity College is a part of the &#8220;Connecticut: North&#8221; region, which has 416 active writers right now, and, as a region, has written 3.5 million words this month.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The goal isn&#8217;t perfection, or even, ultimately, to publish, but, rather, to just get people writing,&#8221; Alexander Champoux &#8217;11, organizer of the first write-in at Trinity College, said. <\/p>\n<p>For more information, contact Champoux at <a href=\"mailto:Alexander.Champoux@trincoll.edu\">Alexander.Champoux@trincoll.edu<\/a>.&nbsp; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This photo was taken last weekend at The Allan K. Smith Writing Center, which&nbsp;has now held two write-ins at Trinity as part of National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo).&nbsp; NaNoWriMo is an organization that encourages writers to dedicate a month (November) to sitting down and writing a 50,000 word novel.&nbsp; Writers register online at nanowrimo.org and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/trinshots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/trinshots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/trinshots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/trinshots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/trinshots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/trinshots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/trinshots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/trinshots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/trinshots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}