A high school student who thinks she can do a better job than Cupid wreaks havoc on the relationships in her school.
A socially awkward international student wants to overcome his fears and integrate himself into his new community.
A female student who is dealing with past traumas attends a new high school and discovers friendship and love with a girl she meets there.
A science fiction story about the rise of an autocratic ruler, a potentate, and a brilliant aristocrat that leads a rebellion to destroy him.
A shy girl gets thrown into a pseudo reality and works with two other teenagers, gathering objects from around the country to enable a scientist to undo the pseudo reality.
A man who has been released from Hell forms a deal with a demon to force his girlfriend who betrayed him into Hell.
These are six very different stories, told by six different authors, but they all have one thing in common. They were all written in a month.
Six students — Jordan McQuiston, Kyle Suico, Lauren Szymczak, Kellyn Toombs, Hubert Wang, and Abby Wyant — in University High School’s Novel Writing class participated in National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) in November. While they did the bulk of their writing in those 30 days, they spent the first part of the semester developing their story idea and learning about the writing process.
As part of NaNoWriMo, the class kept track of their word count, all striving to meet the adult goal of 50,000 words in 30 days. All told, the class wrote a combined 269,087 words.
The class held a coffeehouse on Tuesday, Dec. 6 in Fairbanks Hall. There, they each read excerpts from their stories.
For the remainder of the semester, the students will work on editing and refining their stories.