Laura Beck Nielsen | National Novel Writing Month

About the author

Laura Beck Nielsen

Novel: Seriously
Genre: Literary Fiction

25,595 words so far

About Laura Beck Nielsen

Location: Madison, WI

Home Region:
United States :: Wisconsin :: Madison

Age:33

Website: http://ljbnielsen.gather.com/

Favorite novels: The Age of Reason, by Jean Paul Sartre; The Heart Breaking Tale of a Staggering Genius, by Dave Eggers

Favorite writers: Sartre, Swift, Beckett, Kafka, Kingsolver, Irving

Favorite music: Calexico, Bela Fleck, James Brown Instrumental, Grant Green

Non-noveling interests: Cooking, outdoors, dogs, art openings

Joined: octobre 31, 2007

This Year: Official Participant

NaNoWriMo History:

NaNoWriMo posts: 6

NaNoWriMo buddies: 12

Synopsis: Seriously

An existential look at modern mid-western people in their various stages, all asking questions without necessarily expecting answers. Does it always take a life-threatening tragedy to get a human to "find" the meaning of life? or the meaning of death?

Laura Beck Nielsen's Writing Buddies

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