Volume 124 Issue 31
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Monday. October 3, 2011
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Jeff Severin, a KU graduate in Environmental Studies, discusses his experiences with his two Alternative Breaks as an undergraduate. Severin co-founded GROW, which is a program and garden at the Boys and Girls club, and is now the director of the KU Center for Sustainability.
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JESSICA JANASZ/KANSAN Left: Melanie Gorges, a senior from Aden, Kan., speaks about her alternative break at the Story Slam event in the Kansas Union Thursday evening. Inspired by her experience with the Center for Community Outreach, Gorges challenged the audience to realize you have a purpose for being alive everyday, and the small things you can do for others can make a significant difference. Below: Will Dale, a sophomore from Topeka, relied his story about the work he did with a group of 9th grade students in Chicago. Dale explained how the recycling initiative they created during his trip inspired him to help and work with the Lawrence community by becoming the developmental director for the Center for Community Outreach.
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Go to www.kansan. com to see an online photo gallery of Thursday night's Story Slam event.
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Student authors offer insight, advice on amateur publishing
KELSEY CIPOLLA
kcipolla@kansan.com
"It shows that it's achievable, to achieve that balance and achieve
While some students refused to shave or looked forward to celebrating the holidays last November, Jason Held, a senior from Minneapolis, wrote a novel. For writers across the country November is National Novel Writing Month, an online contest that challenges participants to write 50,000 words in 30 days.
Held initially had no intention of participating, but other members of the Jayhawk-Writers on Campus group, or J-WOC, convinced him to participate in the arduous contest.
"You have to go in there knowing what your book is going to be about," Held said. "I didn't have a complete outline for it, but I knew what it was about."
His book, "The Write Message," follows a 15-year-old boy who hires a literary agent and pursues a publishing deal while trying to balance high school, the challenges of the industry and familial loss. Select chapters of the protagonist's own writing are also included.
J-WOC teamed up with KU
"We teamed up with Hewlett-Packard a year ago to start this project and they gave us grant money to come up with ideas to encourage printing on campus," said Rachel Barnes, the KU Bookstores custom material specialist. "What we came up with was the book contest."
After months of editing and revising, Held's book was finally ready for publication. The Print-
Julie Honn, outreach and communications officer for J-WOC and a senior from Lenexa, said Held's success is encouraging to other student writers.
Bookstores to incentivize competing in the contest. Participants who met the 50,000 word minimum would have a chance to publish their book.
On-Demand center, which allows students, faculty, and community members to print and bind their own works, helped produce "The Write Message."
"We were serving as a small scale publisher for him," said Barnes. The bookstore also coordinated selling the book in the store and through Amazon.
that dream" Honn said. "That's what everybody who writes does it for, that I hope somebody reads this someday."
Although the novel was published last April, Held is still shocked to have actually published a book.
"It's a really strange feeling," he said. "I almost couldn't believe it, but I knew it was my story, I knew I wrote it. I had spent months on it."
Held will discuss his book today at 5 p.m. at Jayhawk Ink inside the Kansas Union. There will also be a panel discussion with other
Edited by Josh Kantor
Student Author Reading Jason Held will read from and discuss his new novel "The Write Message."
Monday October 3, 201
5:00pm - 6:30pm
Ticket Cost: Free
student writers about students' writing experiences.
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Don't forget to floss! October is National Dental Hygiene Month.
Today's weather
Forcasts done by University students. For a more detailed forecast, see page 2A.
HI: 85
LO: 43
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