Fasten your seatbelts and get ready to write! Every November thousands take the National Novel Writing Month challenge and sign up to write a 50,000-word novel in 30 days! In this kick-off workshop, you’ll work on exercises to help you choose your genre, create characters, and imagine what might happen!
 
Rochelle Melander is a certified professional coach, speaker, and the author of 12 books, including the National Novel Writing Month guide Write-A-Thon: Write Your Book in 26 Days (and Live to Tell About It). Her debut book for children, Mightier Than the Sword: Rebels, Reformers, and Revolutionaries Who Changed the World through Writing won the 2021 Cybils Award for Middle Grade nonfiction and the Council for Wisconsin Writers 2021 Tofte/Wright Children’s Literary Award. She has done NaNoWriMo nearly every year since 2007 (mostly to get out of hosting Thanksgiving dinner). Visit her online at writenowcoach.com or rochellemelander.com