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National Novel Writing Month is a fun, seat-of-your-pants approach to novel writing. Participants begin writing November 1. The goal is to write a 175-page (50,000-word) novel by midnight, November 30.

Valuing enthusiasm and perseverance over painstaking craft, NaNoWriMo is a novel-writing program for everyone who has thought fleetingly about writing a novel but has been scared away by the time and effort involved.

Because of the limited writing window, the ONLY thing that matters in NaNoWriMo is output. It's all about quantity, not quality. The kamikaze approach forces you to lower your expectations, take risks, and write on the fly.

Make no mistake: You will be writing a lot of crap. And that's a good thing. By forcing yourself to write so intensely, you are giving yourself permission to make mistakes. To forgo the endless tweaking and editing and just create. To build without tearing down.

As you spend November writing, you can draw comfort from the fact that, all around the world, other National Novel Writing Month participants are going through the same joys and sorrows of producing the Great Frantic Novel. Wrimos meet throughout the month to offer encouragement, commiseration, and—when the thing is done—the kind of raucous celebrations that tend to frighten animals and small children.

In 2007, we had over 100,000 participants. More than 15,000 of them crossed the 50k finish line by the midnight deadline, entering into the annals of NaNoWriMo superstardom forever. They started the month as auto mechanics, out-of-work actors, and middle school English teachers. They walked away novelists.

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Penguarky Tunguin said:

What a cool idea, too bad I have three papers to write.

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  I have a 15-pager and a number of smaller ones coming up.  Laaaaaame.  Still, I think maybe I'll give it a shot!  Could be fun! 

Incidentally, there's a program going on at my school where students submit essays or stories on topics of their choice, and weekly winners make $1,000, with the final grand prize being $250,000.

Penguarky Tunguin said:

I've got a brilliant one, I think, but I just need to actually sit down and flesh it out.  I've got two pages written so far. 

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You started early, cheater!

theorganicdomino said:

I suppose 1667 words a day isn't too much of a push, but every day, day in day out sounds like utter masochism.

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Penguarky Tunguin said:

I'm fancifully hoping that a goal like this would actually help me also begin and finish the three papers I have to do.

I hate writing papers sometimes.

Mind giving us all a synopsis of your story?  I'm just interested to see what other ideas people've got going.  I'll share mine too.

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Will PM you.    Or anyone else who is interested.