For thirteen years, NaNoWriMo, National Novel Writing Month, has challenged individuals of all ages to get their ideas out on paper or on a Word document. 50, 000 words is the golden number and goal to creating a novel.

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I'm a strong advocate of creating a lengthy outline of a novel before writing a single word of the prose.

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"I loved the film, getting to know David O Russell has been great, but as a novelist and as a former English teacher who loves literature, part of the fun of reading a novel is creating that world in your mind, " says Quick.

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Mr Lo has a novel idea for future crises: creating a financial equivalent of the National Transport Safety Board, which investigates every civil-aviation crash in America.

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The landmark case is also the first by the Justice Department that accuses a lender of steering borrowers to more costly mortgages, creating novel and possibly difficult questions on setting monetary payments for some victims.

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