Grab that blank notepad, pick up a pen and start writing because today begins National Novel Writing Month. Here is a statement from their website:
What: Writing one 50,000-word novel from scratch in a month’s time.
Who: You! We can’t do this unless we have some other people trying it as well. Let’s write laughably awful yet lengthy prose together.
Why: The reasons are endless! To actively participate in one of our era’s most enchanting art forms! To write without having to obsess over quality. To be able to make obscure references to passages from our novels at parties. To be able to mock real novelists who dawdle on and on, taking far longer than 30 days to produce their work.
When: Sign-ups begin October 1, 2007. Writing begins November 1. To be added to the official list of winners, you must reach the 50,000-word mark by November 30 at midnight. Once your novel has been verified by our web-based team of robotic word counters, the partying begins.
I tend to be a glutton for punishment so I am going to go for it. I admit I comforted by the fact that they do not stress quality, just quantity. So I can think of it as National Novel Draft Writing Month. I’ll try to remember to keep you posted on my progress as I attempt to put down 1666 words on paper a day.
Click here to read more about National Novel Writing Month.
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