So I signed up for National Novel Writing Month. My brother told me about it a few months ago. What is it? It’s this challenge where you write 50,000 words during the month of November. In other words, you write a short novel in a month.

The goal is to write the whole thing – the whole 50,000 words. It doesn’t have to be great or the final draft or anything, just 50,000 words. (According to the website, that’s an average of 1,667 words per day). They say that most people are too overwhelmed to write a novel even if they want to, so participating in a challenge like this is to actually just get something written.

I don’t understand exactly how it works but basically you do the writing on your own computer or in your own notebook and just peiodically post your word count to the website. Then, at the end of the month, you can upload your novel to the website to have it validated – the website will officially do a word count of the text you send in.  If you have written 50,000 words or more, you are declared a winner.  (Anyone and everyone can be a winner, you just need to write 50,000 words).

So I’ve done the easy part, I’ve signed up, and I’ve ordered a cool notebook from the website.  Now all I have to do is write the 50,000 words.  I’m kicking around a few story lines but haven’t pinned one down definitely yet. The website for National Novel Writing Month is www.nanowrimo.org.

Happy writing!