Novem­ber is National Novel Writ­ing Month as pre­sented by The Office of Let­ters and Light, a non­profit group that spon­sors and facil­i­tates sev­eral pro­grams that encour­age cre­ative writ­ing. The idea is to write 50,000 words, approx­i­mately 175 pages, in the thirty days that Novem­ber hath. That’s a mere 1,667 words a day! Totally doable!

I know, you don’t have time! Nei­ther do I, but it was recently pointed out to me that the peo­ple who don’t have enough time are often the most suc­cess­ful because they bud­get rather than always think­ing they can catch up later. I’m not sure why, but that sounded like a dare to me. I don’t have enough time, but now I’ve pub­licly stated that I’m going to try and unless I want to embar­rass myself I’ve got to get writing.

Your novel doesn’t have to be per­fect, pub­lish­able or even good, but once you’ve fin­ished the month you should have a cou­ple of char­ac­ters you’ve got­ten to know pretty well and a bit of a story.  And that’s a good start.

The pro­gram is web-based, though many areas have groups that hold “write-ins” and offer one another sup­port. Just check your region for cohorts when you register.

So, put on your writ­ing boots, reg­is­ter at nanowrimo.org and get started because there’s only thirty days in November!

p.s. Leave a com­ment on this post with your NaNoW­riMo name so we can all be writ­ing bud­dies… I’m suZqZ.