NaNoWriMo

NaNoWriMo: National Novel Writing Month. As I write this, it’s November and I am participating in NaNoWriMo. This means that I have to write a novel in one month. That may seem like too much of a task over school and other time consuming activities, but it is very doable. And I am not the only one doing it; just last year there were 119301 adult participants. 18.2 percent of which won (that’s 21683 people!) Everybody who participated tried to write 50000 words, all in the 30 day month of November. Together, all those people wrote a total of 1.6 billion words (that’s enough to go around the moon many times.) I quite enjoy it, and I think that many other people would too.


But that is just the adults. This year there are over 1000 classrooms participating in NaNoWriMo’s Young Writers Program. The Y.W.P. is for children who have very little likely hood of reaching 50000 words. It lets them choose their word count goal, according to grade. This is what I am doing, not the full NaNoWriMo, and I need to reach 15000 words by November 30th. With Y.W.P. children get a chance to express their imagination in a very productive way. Both Y.W.P. and NaNoWriMo are great ways to test your imagination and endurance. I think that the next time November comes around you should try one of these word marathons.