November 1 and NaNoWriMo

November 1. It’s that time of the year again when I chicken turkey out. Why’s that? Because November is NaNoWriMo. Have you heard of it? NaNoWriMo is short for National Novel Writing Month. NaNoWriMo is a nonprofit that promotes creative writing, but its well-known program is a month-long event which inspires people to write a 50,000-word manuscript in November. Originally, this challenge started among friends in 1999 but has since expanded to hundreds of thousands of participants all … [Read more...]

NaNoWriMo

"You love challenge." Not really. Nerd alert: I was part of my high school's Academic Decathlon team. On the practice test, I did really well on the Language & Literature portion, but during the real deal at regionals? I kept second-guessing my answers and ended up scoring pretty low. I can't handle timed pressure. This is why I would be a bad contestant on any number of reality TV shows. For writers, there's the current NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) challenge. Kudos to those … [Read more...]