I just bought a copy of the NY Times bestseller "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen. I was in Sam's yesterday looking at the books and a complete stranger (never met an incomplete stranger, have you?) recommended the book so passionately, I had to buy it. I told her about NaNoWriMo and that several best sellers had come from the contest.
So I got home and looked up Sara Gruen. Guess what. Yep, "Water for Elephants" was a NaNoNovel first! And it is being made into a movie! She said it was a really bad first draft. Check this out http://www.nanowrimo.org/eng/node/3141870
Happy Noveling!
~~Nancy
P.S. That sounds like a book title: INCOMPLETE STRANGER
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God said, "Choose Life!" Inner Editor replied, "Don't say 'choose.' That's too vague. Why not say ‘engage'?" "Go 'way!" God boomed most emphatically. "Writers engaging life have no time for NaNoNoveling. I love their crap. So leave them alone, too!"
50,117 / 50,000
Nov 5, 2009 - 13 47
I would absolutely love to be a NY Times bestseller one day . . who knows, maybe this will be the novel!
50,121 / 50,000
Nov 6, 2009 - 07 22
I wonder how many writers doing NaNo have been published, or how many of them continue to do NaNo after they've been published. And I wonder how many books each year started out as a NaNo novel!
----------NaNo 2006 - The Sorcerer's Blade (win)
NaNo 2008 - Sorceress Knight (win)
NaNo 2009 - Secrets of the Black Moon (win)
73,825 / 50,000
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Here is a link to the FAQuestion about this very subject! There are a surprising amount of Wrimos being published!
http://www.nanowrimo.org/eng/node/402661
----------Amanda ML for Oklahoma:: Tulsa
2005-50k :: 2006-51K :: 2007-63K :: 2008-78K :: 2009-73K
24,134 / 50,000
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Mur Lafferty had an interesting interview this week on I Should Be Writing with David Niall Wilson about his continuing NaNoWriMo habit:
http://isbw.murlafferty.com/2009/11/03/isbw-135-nanowrimo-extravaganzaaa...
----------2007 Winner - This Old Haunt
2009 - Dominion of the Damned
