November 11, 2011 - The Writer's Ally

4 Special Treats For NaNoWriMo Participants

By the time you read this, we’ll be entering the second weekend of NaNoWriMo, and hopefully I’ll be on track with my word goal or ahead of the game. Right now I’m ahead. It’s true it’s a little late in the game to join in the fun, but not too late if you already have a draft started (yes, technically that’s cheating) or if you can write really, really fast. Still, I wanted to tell you about a few fun and interesting perks and activities the folks over at the OLL—the non-profit behind NaNoWriMo—have cooked up.

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Success Story: Eric D. Goodman

By Allyson Machate / November 11, 2011

Novelist Eric D. Goodman calls his book “a novel in stories.” Tracks is set on a train traveling from Baltimore to Chicago. Each story is told from the perspective of a passenger on the train. They are the strangers we meet every day: a soldier, a salesman, a former mobster, a Holocaust survivor, couples in love, a woman who has lost her parents, a poet, a hit man. The stories in Tracks stand alone, but they become stronger when linked together. Tracks is all about how people—even strangers on a train—can touch one another in meaningful ways.

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