November is National Novel Writing Month (Nanowrimo for short). You, along with tons of other enthusiastic and over-caffeinated amateur novelists will be challenged to write a 50k novel in one month. This means that there is no room for editing, rereading or dilly dallying. You have to kick your internal editor out of your head entirely for thirty days and just write. Join the forums on www.nanowrimo.org and commiserate with fellow nanowrimos, join local groups and get together to commiserate in person and have a great excuse to lock yourself away and finally sit down to create your masterpiece! I’ve participated for the last several years, and every year I think I at least learn something about myself or improve my writing skills infinitesimally. I also end up with a big hot mess of a story, which then takes 11 months to edit.
You know you’re interested, just take a look at the Nanowrimo site and see what all the fuss is about. You just might get hooked!
Stay tuned for more National Novel Writing Month Enthusiasum!
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I definitely want to do this! But what to write about?!?!!?