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Hi teens! October 17-23 is Teen Read Week. This year's theme is Books with Beat @ your library! Check out poetry and listen to audiobooks. Also, check out anything with BEAT...crime beat, street lit, music beat, and books that make your heart beat! There are lots of reasons to celebrate Teen Read Week. Reading is free, fun, and can be done anywhere! We have a "Books with Beat" display set up in the Young Adult Department, so check it out. Remember reading is a great form of entertainment! See you soon. Laura
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Hey Teens! November is National Novel Writing Month! And here's the deal, starting November 1st and ending on the 30th the goal is to write a novel. This novel is only to be written within the month, the goal is to write a 175-page or 50,000-word. For more information visit, NaNoWriMo.
Check out the NaNoWriMo Young Writers Program! Click here for a workbook. What is NaNoWriMo? National Novel Writing Month is a fun, seat-of-your-pants approach to novel writing. Participants begin writing November 1. The goal is to write a 175-page (50,000-word) novel by midnight, November 30. Valuing enthusiasm and perseverance over painstaking craft, NaNoWriMo is a novel-writing program for everyone who has thought fleetingly about writing a novel but has been scared away by the time and effort involved. Because of the limited writing window, the ONLY thing that matters in NaNoWriMo is output. It's all about quantity, not quality. The kamikaze approach forces you to lower your expectations, take risks, and write on the fly. Make no mistake: You will be writing a lot of crap. And that's a good thing. By forcing yourself to write so intensely, you are giving yourself permission to make mistakes. To forgo the endless tweaking and editing and just create. To build without tearing down. As you spend November writing, you can draw comfort from the fact that, all around the world, other National Novel Writing Month participants are going through the same joys and sorrows of producing the Great Frantic Novel. Wrimos meet throughout the month to offer encouragement, commiseration, and—when the thing is done—the kind of raucous celebrations that tend to frighten animals and small children. In 2009, we had over 165,000 participants. More than 30,000 of them crossed the 50K finish line by the midnight deadline, entering into the annals of NaNoWriMo superstardom forever. They started the month as auto mechanics, out-of-work actors, and middle school English teachers. They walked away novelists. So, to recap: What: Writing one 50,000-word novel from scratch in a month's time. Who: You! We can't do this unless we have some other people trying it as well. Let's write laughably awful yet lengthy prose together. Why: The reasons are endless! To actively participate in one of our era's most enchanting art forms! To write without having to obsess over quality. To be able to make obscure references to passages from our novels at parties. To be able to mock real novelists who dawdle on and on, taking far longer than 30 days to produce their work. When: You can sign up anytime to add your name to the roster and browse the forums. Writing begins November 1. To be added to the official list of winners, you must reach the 50,000-word mark by November 30 at midnight. Once your novel has been verified by our web-based team of robotic word counters, the partying begins. (From http://www.nanowrimo.org/eng/whatisnano) I'm so proud of my teens ;) here is just one reason why.
Check out the link here to see an article about one of our very own teen's latest projects! Keep up the awesome job everyone! -Bailey A friend of mine posted this on their facebook, I thought this might be helpful, or at least interesting to you.
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/video/video.php?v=1601819254523 Let me know if it works or doesn't so that I can fix it. -Bailey |
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Laura Prestia and Bailey Murray are the Young Adult Specialists here at the Albany County Public Library. NOTE: Comments with no name, contain advertisements and/or irrelevant contact information will be deleted from the blog. Please keep comments relevant to the topic, and please do not advertise.
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