Author Archives: oldhamwritinggroup

by Bonnie Meekums I found out about NaNoWriMo by accident. I can’t quite remember how it happened, but I found myself turning up, at Oldham Library, in early November 2018, feeling a more than a bit nervous.  I had drafted my first novel by the end of 2017. In 2018, I sent out my draftContinue reading “How joining NaNoWriMo turned me into a published novelist”

by Jennifer Joyce I joined Oldham Writing Group a year ago, just as they were getting ready for Nanowrimo. I knew what Nano was. I’d even contemplated taking part year after year, but I was always in the middle of a draft or at the editing stage of a book. I’d already started the firstContinue reading “Getting Ready For Nano2020”

by Miriam Islam Nanowrimo Is upon us once more. ‘Tis the season to be  writing tra la la la’ It’s the time for  literary champions and ‘pants on fire’ humans to rise again. Twas The occasion to make merry ;down the ink laden wine, and join  the characters under metaphorical mistletoe….Please excuse all my poor ChristmasContinue reading “Death of a Dream”

by Jo Harthan

By Carolyn Crossley I am so sorry to be late with this blog post, but here we are on the 15th September 2020 and NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) is looming on a lot of writers’ horizons we have only one and a half months to go until launch.  If it wasn’t for NaNo IContinue reading “Better Late Than Never”

by Sue Cook I joined Oldham Writing Group a year ago. I needed to find a local group with the same goals as me, and this fitted the bill. The first Thursday I turned up to the meeting in the library I was shell-shocked. Some of the writers had agents and publishers. Others had self-publishedContinue reading “Plan on Winning NaNoWriMo?”

by Jacqueline Ward November means Nanowrimo. National Novel Writing Month. The time when I write 50000 words in 30 days. Which isn’t novel length, and the length isn’t the only thing that’s different. I really look forward to November. It’s just after my birthday, just before Christmas and it’s usually cold. So when I discovered NanoContinue reading “November”

by Dan Forrester It was my birthday last week in lockdown. I spent a lot of the day writing, as I have done with most of my time throughout lockdown when not working. My birthday was an apt moment to reflect, though, on my writing journey so far. It seems like I’ve been writing forContinue reading “So I was a bit rusty…”

by Miriam Islam Let me start off this post by confessing that I won’t be sharing any writing tips, insights or anything about my writing journey during this period as I haven’t done anything. I haven’t written anything at all, new or old. I hang my head in shame, considering this is a post onContinue reading “Where it all began”

by Wendy Burgess Another week passes by and it’s my turn to write the blog post. Going off the posts that have gone before it’s a tough act to follow. I’ve spent quite a few hours this week trying to think about what I would write. Not easy, for me. I’d rather write volumes ofContinue reading “Why I Write”