2013 NaNoWri

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Subject:	[NaNoWriMo] Unfolding Your Wings
Date:	Sat, 29 Dec 2012 01:22:32 +0000
From:	Grant Faulkner <nanowrimo_loves_you@nanowrimo.org>
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Dear fellow storytellers,

If you're like me, you're taking stock of your 2012 New Year's Resolutions and thinking, "Why is 'Do yoga' on my list every year?"

I failed to do a single downward-facing dog pose in 2012, but I take heart that, like you, I embarked on the mind-bending journey of NaNoWriMo. Whether you wrote 500 words or 50,000 in November, you achieved something huge: you leapt into an audacious goal.

We love being the place where you—along with kids and teens in more than 2,000 classrooms—bounded into novel writing. To paraphrase the late, great Ray Bradbury, you have to jump to find out how to unfold your wings.

We want to continue helping writers fly. To do so, we need to raise $90,000 to reach our break-even goal to bring NaNoWriMo back next year. Currently, 11.6% of NaNoWriMo participants have donated. We're shooting for 12%.

If you haven't had a chance to donate, please consider making a tax-deductible donation (even $10 helps tremendously) or buying a nifty item in our store to commemorate your 2012 novel. We toast you in advance for your generosity—every donation helps us open a pathway for a wanna-be writer to become a writer.

Thanks for writing with us in 2012, and please keep writing in 2013. We want to wrap the world in your yarns!

Write on!

Grant Faulkner
Executive Director
The Office of Letters and Light
The tiny-but-mighty parent nonprofit of NaNoWriMo and the Young Writers Program
Watch us in animated form!
P.S. Since we're an organization of wild, audacious goals, please tell us what "big, fun, scary things" you're cooking up for 2013. Yoga?