National Novel Writing Month—or NaNoWriMo, as the pros call it—is the one time every year you can be totally obsessed with your novel, live knee-deep inside your own stories, and no one can say anything about it! It is, in short, a creative writer's dream (or nightmare, depending on how well you write under pressure).
Here's the gist: this creative writing project challenges novelists from newbies to seasoned professionals to write a 50,000-word novel between November 1 and November 30. If that sounds crazy to you, you’re not alone. I’ve personally been working on a novel in earnest for the past two years, and it’s been living in my mind for a lot longer than that. But hey—that's the whole point. Stories live inside all of us, and they matter. From fantastical epics to realistic shorts to flash-fiction, we each have our own wonderful story to tell. And it’s about time we let them all out.
