November 2010 President’s Message from Violet Carr Moore

Ghosts and goblins disappeared at midnight October 31st while my fingers hovered over computer keys to click the first words of National Novel in a Month Writers contest. Futuristic writers extracted spooks from closets with paranormal or sci-fi tales and waited alongside suspense and romance writers. Millions of new characters were born. Authors will nurture and propel them across the 50,000-word finish line by November 30. Then, like me, many of them will spend the next two years polishing those words into a print-ready novel.