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Q&A: Talking ‘National Novel Writing Month’ with New Canaan Library’s Erinn Paige
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November is National Novel Writing Month—a coordinated, structured effort that helps active and aspiring writers create their books on a demanding, 30-day schedule. At New Canaan Library, past “NaNoWriMo” participant and library staffer Erinn Paige has helped put together a series of interactive, supportive and relevant programs that tie into the larger novel-writing effort (you can see them here). We put some questions to Paige about her own writing experience with NaNoWriMo, and how she as programming library developed the events. Here’s our exchange. New Canaanite: It seems like part of what National Novel Writing Month—”NaNoWriMo”—tries to do, is to create a supportive, interactive, accountable platform for what appears to be a rather solitary, personal endeavor: writing a book.