Salinas Challenges Alexandria to a Literary Duel

LwoodAAA — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 23:52:38 +0000

Calling Alexandria’s Someday Novelists: Salinas, California Challenges You!
Salinas California, City of Letters and Birthplace of John Steinbeck,
Challenges Alexandria, Egypt to a Literary Duel through NaNoWriMo

November 12, 2009 ― In an act of irrational literary abandon, the Salinas Public Library has issued an international challenge to the Library of Alexandria, Egypt, which has been accepted by the Bibliotheca Alexandrina and poster to their website at www1.bibalex.org/libraries/bigread/sec/Grapes_en.aspx
Here is the text of the challenge, which is being forwarded around Alexandria now:

Let the novelists of our cities of letters engage in a literary duel during the month of November as they strive to write a 50,000-word novel in one month. Why? Because the world needs more laughter, and everyone loves exploits of remarkable literary ambition. And because November is National Novel Writing Month, lovingly called “NaNoWriMo,” when 100,000 people from the far corners of the earth will join in the spirit of daring and unlikely exploits. It is a month of brazen challenges, outsized claims, and international incidents of the literary kind. Join Us!

This is not so crazy! Salinas’ native son John Steinbeck wrote his 454-page opus The Grapes of Wrath in five short months—at the rate of about 31,000 words per month. If you would like to embark on the most daring literary adventure of your life, sign in at www.NaNoWriMo.org, make your home town Alexandria, Egypt, sign up for the Egypt regional message board (you won’t see it until you’ve signed in), and start writing your novel! (There is also a Young Writer section, where writers can set their own word count, at http://ywp.nanowrimo.org.) It’s free, and it will connect you with a worldwide network of someday novelists, a high-humored bunch of writers who will tilt at anything. Particularly the novelists of Salinas, who can’t wait to square off against the novelists of Alexandria. Accept the challenge on the Egypt regional board at www.NaNoWriMo.org.

www.salinaspubliclibrary.org
The Salinas Public Library. Come Get Us.

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Elsewhere :: Egypt

Calling Alexandria Novelists!

LwoodAAA — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 06:41:22 +0000

Ya Alexandria NaNos! Where are you?

The illustrious novelists of Salinas, California (home of John Steinbeck, whose novel "The Grapes of Wrath" is now being read in a Big Read in Alexandria and beyond) wish to challenge you to a write-off! Come out, come out, wherever you are!

Please send me NaNomail!

All the best,

LwoodAAA
Salinas Public Library
Salinas, California
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Elsewhere :: Egypt

Elsewhere :: Egypt

Salinas Challenges Alexandria to a Literary Duel

Calling Alexandria Novelists!