Volume 124 Issue 31
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Monday, October 3, 2011
Jayhawks have third-quarter blues Three interceptions blow a 20-0 lead PAGES 6-7
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RETWEET
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Volume 124 Issue 29
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Friday, September 30, 2011
FOOTBALL FRIDAYS
Each Friday before home football games, The UDK will take on a different form. Sponsored by our sports magazine, The Wave, we'l give you extended coverage, predictions and analysis for the next day's game in addition to news, entertainment and opinion content.
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Miss any homecoming events this week? Check out the homecoming recap
CLASSIFIEDS 17 CRYPTOQUIPS 9 SPORTS 11
CROSSWORD 9 OPINION 10 SUDUKU 10
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Don't forget
Saturday's homecoming parade starts at 8 a.m., so make sure you get there early!
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Student autnors offer insight, advice on amateur publishing
KELSEY CIPOLLA
kcipolla@kansan.com
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."
Bookstores to incentivize competing in the contest. Participants who met the 50,000 word minimum would have a chance to publish their book.
After months of editing and revising, Held's book was finally ready for publication. The Print-
On-Demand center, which allows students, faculty, and community members to print and bind their own works, helped produce "The Write Message."
"It shows that it's achievable, to achieve that balance and achieve
"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.
Julie Honn, outreach and communications officer for J-WOC, and a senior from Lenexa, said Held's success is encouraging to other student writers.
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 field will read from and discuss his new novel The Write Message.
student writers about students' writing experiences.
Monday October 3, 2015
5:00pm - 6:30pm
Ticket Cost: Free
Index CLASSIFIEDS 11 CRYTOTOQUPS 4 SPORTS 12
CROSSWORD 4 OPINION 5 SUDUOK 12
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Don't forget
Don't forget to floss! October is National Dental Hygiene Month.
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Today's weather
Forcasts done by University students. For a more detailed forecast, see page 24.
HI: 85
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