Get Started Writing Your Book

Tuesday, November 1, 2022
6:30 pm - 8:30 pm

If you’ve been thinking about writing a book this year for NaNoWriMo or have started and don’t know what to do next, join Cherie Dawn Haas, local author and editor, for an evening of expert guidance. This class will apply to those interested  in writing a novel, memoir, and non-fiction.

Please note any accommodation requests in the Special Needs section of the registration form. If you have any accommodation requests or questions please contact Clara at cgerner@cc-pl.org or csprograms@cc-pl.org

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Cherie Dawn Haas

Cherie Dawn Haas is a writer and maker who loves all things that involve creativity. She lives with her husband and two sons in Kentucky, where they manage a small vineyard and take care of their three dogs, Dangit Rusty, Hazel, and Delia, and a small flock of chickens. Cherie Dawn is the author of “Girl on Fire” (novel) and “Personified” (poetry), and a co-author of the “From Meditation to Creation” series. She was a finalist in the 2020 Poetry Unites Kentucky competition, has contributed to WritersDigest.com, and by day is the Editor for three Streamline Publishing art newsletters and websites. She is working on her second and third novels.

What is NaNoWriMo?

National Novel Writing Month began in 1999 as a daunting but straightforward challenge: to write 50,000 words of a novel in thirty days. Now, each year on November 1, hundreds of thousands of people around the world begin to write, determined to end the month with 50,000 words of a brand new novel. They enter the month as elementary school teachers, mechanics, or stay-at-home parents. They leave novelists.

NaNoWriMo officially became a nonprofit organization in 2006, and our programs support writing fluency and education. Our website hosts more than a million writers, serving as a social network with author profiles, personal project libraries, and writing buddies. NaNoWriMo tracks words for writers like Fitbit tracks steps, and hosts real-world writing events in cities from Mexico City, to Seoul, to Milwaukee with the help of 900+ volunteers in thousands of partnering libraries and community centers like… well, like nothing else.

NaNoWriMo is internet-famous. It’s community-powered (hello, Wrimos!). It’s hosted authors drafting novels like Water for Elephants, WOOL, and Fangirl. It’s a teaching tool and curriculum taught in 5,920 classrooms, and NaNoWriMo’s programs run year-round.

Whatever you thought NaNoWriMo is, it’s more than that.

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