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It is said that every one of us has a book inside us that is just waiting to be let loose on the world. How many of us though would ever actually set that book free? Ask me that question three years ago and I would have been one in the 'it's in there somewhere but I doubt I will ever loose it on the world' camp. At the time I had found the writing bug, writing reviews on here I had written a few short stories that had gone down quite well and when someone suggested NaNoWriMo to me I had a look and thought what the hell and gave it a go. So what is this fabled NaNoWriMo? Odd word that isn't it ... more

They say that every person on earth has a book dwelling somewhere inside them waiting to get out, though could you write a 50,000 word novel within the space of one month ? The whole object of this site is to give writers the incentive to write a whole book, and it somehow works. I have been a member on the site for two years, and have written two novelettes. I call them novelettes because I don't think that 50,000 is a serious book, though what the site does is extraordinary and something I enjoy being part of. In the month of November every year, people are invited to join up, and to get ... more

NaNoWriMo stands for National Novel Writing Month. It's actually an international thing now, but they haven't changed the name. As the name might suggest, the idea is that you write a novel in a month. In November, you're supposed to start a new novel and write 50000 words of it before the midnight on the 30th. It doesn't matter if the quality is low, it doesn't matter if the book's only half finished all that matters is you try. I've been a part of NaNoWriMo for two years. I was pleased with the result of last year's and (after a huge amount of rewriting and tidying up) I even sent the novel ... more