{"id":10476,"date":"2012-10-23T16:03:02","date_gmt":"2012-10-23T16:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/?p=10476"},"modified":"2012-10-23T16:03:02","modified_gmt":"2012-10-23T16:03:02","slug":"vox-pop-cardiff-city-of-bards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/2012\/10\/23\/vox-pop-cardiff-city-of-bards\/","title":{"rendered":"Vox Pop: Cardiff, city of bards?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_10477\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"width: 480px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2012\/10\/Culture_3_Books_Big_SY.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10477\" title=\"Culture_3_Books_Big_SY\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2012\/10\/Culture_3_Books_Big_SY.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2012\/10\/Culture_3_Books_Big_SY.jpg 480w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2012\/10\/Culture_3_Books_Big_SY-300x138.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10477\" title=\"Culture_3_Books_Big_SY\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2012\/10\/Culture_3_Books_Big_SY.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2012\/10\/Culture_3_Books_Big_SY.jpg 480w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2012\/10\/Culture_3_Books_Big_SY-300x138.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Will Cardiff witness the creation of a new literary masterpiece next month?<\/p><\/div>\n<p>November is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nanowrimo.org\/en\/dashboard\">National Novel Writing Month<\/a>. For thirty days and thirty nights, aspiring novelists from across the world come together to create the books they have always dreamed of writing. Many people in and around Cardiff are rising to the challenge.<\/p>\n<p>The aim is to write 50,000 words by 30 November. Recklessness is key and output is everything. As the website says, \u201cEmbrace imperfection and see where it takes you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jay Walker, who coordinates the event in Wales, said, &#8220;NaNoWriMo is the most pointless writing competition on the planet. It\u2019s as pointless as jumping from a balloon to fall 24 miles back to earth. That\u2019s why we do it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll writers are welcome, from beginners to professionals \u2013 after all, Wales is the Land of Bards.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7sEy2DFq344&amp;list=LLR7oLVJXNpwuuYi8R_YVY9w&amp;feature=mh_lolz[\/youtube]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>November is National Novel Writing Month. 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As the website says, \u201cEmbrace imperfection and see where it takes you.\u201d Jay Walker, who coordinates the event in Wales, said, &#8220;NaNoWriMo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":252,"featured_media":10478,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[2124,2125,1075,863,639,2126],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-10476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","tag-nanowrimo","tag-national-novel-writing-month","tag-novel","tag-november","tag-vox-pop","tag-writer"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Vox Pop: Cardiff, city of bards? - alt.cardiff<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/2012\/10\/23\/vox-pop-cardiff-city-of-bards\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Vox Pop: Cardiff, city of bards? - alt.cardiff\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"November is National Novel Writing Month. 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