These are the camps we wish we had when we were kids.
It seems like everybody else gets to play, doesn’t it? Some kids play a sport. Some kids play an instrument. Some kids play … in a play. But writers?
We write alone.

Is it any wonder that we write mopey, sad, teenager stuff?
I mean, I did. Maybe you don’t, and that’s cool.
But wouldn’t it be a lot cooler if you could write AND play? If writing were *gasp* fun? If there were a writers’ banquet, like the sports banquet, where everyone came at the end of the year to eat cake and clap for you and hand out giant trophies for your hard work and take pictures with a local celebrity and your name was in the newspaper? Well, guess what, bucko. It’s your lucky day.

At A Novel Idea, we think Word Nerds deserve all that and more. This summer, you can choose from either our signature Novel Camp where you’ll write a for-real, no-joke commercial-length novel in one month, or our one-week Short Camp where you’ll write everything from songs to mysteries to epic haiku. And the best part? We’ll publish what you write. In a for-real book.
Look, if you don’t ever want to share it with anyone, that’s cool, too. But you’ll know that you did it.
And the only audience that ever really matters is you.
Come find your people.
Let’s write. Together!