National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo)

Today, the National Novel Writing month began. What is writing a NaNovel all about? Well, for one thing, it isn't about taking time to write! The title says it all, because that idea, and goal, is to write throughout the entire month (30 days) and finish with 50,000 words or 175 pages by midnight on Nov. 30th. Established in 1999, this national novel month of writing is to encourage writers, or even those who have never written a novel, to throw off any worries about how they'll write, and to just write. With this mindset the writer is free to create (then clean it up-revise-later) and continue until the goal is reached.

To meet the monthly goal the writer must meet daily goals, or close to it. In 2008 there were over 120,000 participants, 20,000 of which completed their novel. And in 2009? Likely there will be many more! Of those 20,000 last year I'm certain many of those works have been revised and submitted. And of those not yet publishable, a great work still happened and this is the reason for the national novel writing month.