Write A Novel In One Month

For all you budding authors out there who haven't heard, November is National Novel Writing Month, also known as NaNoWriMo to the initiated. The annual, web based initiative encourages would be authors to scribble 50,000 in one month in an attempt to free their imaginations and set their creative juices flowing. There are no judges or prizes: the reward is the satisfaction of seeing your dream come to life in the completion of your novel.

Starting from scratch and writing for quantity not quality is a method which the founder of NaNoWriMo, Chris Baty and the team which comprises The Office of Letters and Light has found to be the best way to encourage the debut novelists of tomorrow.  Program director Lindsey Grant says “Completing a draft of the novel they’ve been contemplating for ages gives participants a tremendous sense of accomplishment and leaves them wondering what else they’re capable of.”

There’s still time to join in so if you have been nursing an idea, this could be the perfect excuse to unleash it from the confines of your mind. Who knows what it might lead to? For more information, visit the website www.nanowrimo.org.