National Novel Writing Month kicks off this week!

It's almost November, which, for aspiring fiction writers, means one thing only: National Novel Writing Month - or NaNoWriMo as it's affectionately known.

For those of you unfamiliar with the concept, the best place to start is at the NaNoWriMo website. In a nutshell, though, the challenge is to write a 50,000 word "novel" during the month of November. Nothing matters except that all-important word count, meaning that you learn to resist the urge to edit, or to spend hours on end creating perfectly crafted sentences - you just sit down and write.

The idea is that by the end of the month, you'll have the bare bones of a novel. No, it may not be a great one, and it may not be the best writing you'll ever do, but you'll at least have something approaching a "novel" - and let's face it, that's more than most of us manage in our lifetimes. You'll also have learned how to stop procrastinating and just get on with the important business of writing - a valuable lesson indeed.

I've just signed up (even although I have only the vaguest idea what I'm going to write about) and you can view my profile here. Anyone care to join me?

Comments

[Chad]

I am giving it a shot for the first time. I have not idea what I am going to write about either.

Here is the link to my profile. http://www.nanowrimo.org/user/219046

Thanks and good luck!