NaNoWrMo - you heard me!

NaNoWrMo is not only the worst acronym in the history of Western Civilization, it’s also National Novel Writing Month. I’d never heard of it before, but this site has been around for 7 years, and is essentially a writing community where people come together with the goal of writing a 50,000 word novel during the month of November. You track your progress as you upload, chat, browse the forums, etc. I signed up and am going to give it a go (not like I’m not busy enough … what’s a few thousand extra words a day?). It seems a little lofty, but a great challenge nevertheless. To put it into perspective, I just finished the rough draft of a new script, completed over two weeks, that came in at a shade under 20,000 words. But nothing fun is ever really that easy.

The goal is not to write the Great American Novel, but to write a novel, period. I started writings screenplays so I could better structure myself for novel writing, and now, 10 scripts later, I thought I’d give it a go. If you sign up you can add people you know, so link to my profile, park5300.

There are prizes and awards for winning, and last year 13,000 of the 75,000 who signed up actually made it to 50,000 words.

http://www.nanowrimo.org/