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Thursday Thirteen

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Thirteen Books to Help You With NaNoWriMo and/or NaBloPoMo

1. No Plot? No Problem! - Chris Baty
2. No One Cares What You Had For Lunch: 100 Ideas for Your Blog - Margaret Mason
3. Get The Novel Written - Donna Levin
4. How to Write It: A Complete Guide to Everything You’ll Ever Write - Sandra E. Lamb
5. How to Write a Damn Good Novel: A Step-by-Step No Nonsense Guide to Dramatic Storytelling - James N. Frey
6. How to Write Your Life Story - Ralph Fletcher
7. The Weblog Handbook: Practical Advice on Creating and Maintaining Your Blog - Rebecca Blood
8. The Writer’s Block: 786 Ideas to Jump-Start Your Imagination - Jason Rekulak
9. Write: 10 Days to Overcome Writer’s Block. Period. - Karen E. Peterson
10. The Pocket Idiot’s Guide to Beating Writer’s Block (Pocket Idiot’s Guides) - Kathy Kleidermacher
11. Will Write for Shoes: How to Write a Chick Lit Novel - Cathy Yardley
12. So You Want to Write a Novel - Lou W. Stanek
13. The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Writing a Novel - Thomas Monteleone

Good luck to all those participating! I’ll be offering prompts on Write Anyway.

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  1. Artists Passion » Blog Archive » NaNoWriMo and the art of writing Says:

    [...] NaNoWriMoers Over at Fiction Scribe, there are 13 ways to start your NaNo and at The Book Stacks 13 books to help you with NaNoWriMo or NaNoBloMo. At The Poisoned Apple, the word count is already over 2,000. And, I don’t think Thomas [...]

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