[aisle] NaNoWriMo ideas
Meyer, Gail
GMeyer at tfd215.org
Wed Oct 30 09:01:15 CDT 2019
Hi all,
I asked a while ago about ideas for National Novel Writing Month. I thought I’d share the response I got and what I came up with. The only person who replied, from a high school:
For 5 years I held an informal nanowrimo group after school in the library. I couldn't do it every day, so I put together a calendar of November meeting dates, with the idea being that students would try to come on all of the scheduled dates they could. We met from 3-4. We didn't share our work, we just used it as our "sacred space" to carve out time to write. It attracted a nice group of about a dozen regulars. I made it clear that I wasn't providing instruction or feedback, just the space and time for their personal writing commitment. It was a positive experience overall.
What I’ve come up with –
· I made up 10 Novel Writing Kits. Kraft paper bags that include a composition notebook, pencils, eraser, paper clips, sticky notes, a stress ball, and 3 writing prompts from a deck of 52 I purchased on Amazon. We’ll do a drawing the first week of November to give away the kits.
· Any student who shows me they’ve written something at the end of November (doesn’t have to meet the word length NaNoWriMo shoots for) is also entered into a drawing for a book about how to write with prompts in it (from the book table at Five Below).
· The library will be open at 7:30 am on Thursdays (a half hour early) for students who want a space to write. We have other things in the space after school, preventing an after-school meeting.
· Total cost for the kits and prize book – just under $30.
I have doubts I’ll even get ten entries for the kits. I’ve asked around and no teachers seem to know any students who like to write, not even in Creative Writing. But we’ll see.
Maybe this prompts some ideas of your own. ☺
Gail Meyer, Librarian
TF South High School
gmeyer at tfd215.org<mailto:gmeyer at tfd215.org>
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