NATIONAL NOVEL WRITING MONTH … NaNoWriMo …

A SPECIAL MONTH FOR WRITERS …

This is an edited version of something I wrote last year in November.

Last year, a female writer in England (whose blog I read) brought up this quite popular concept in certain parts of the world – NaNoWriMo – or, National Novel Writing Month, where writers are challenged to try to pen a novel in the month of November, one that is 50,000 words or more.

PUSHING YOURSELF TO GET A NOVEL DONE

The interesting thing about this is - it pushes the writer to put out something, a novel.

Whether the novel is taken on and published by a top publisher and makes the bestselling list of the New York Times is irrelevant.

(If it does, the writer will earn much more – and the fruit of that is the 30 days of work and sweat in that month.)

The exercise itself should bring out the best in a writer.

IF YOU CONTINUE PARTICIPATING IN NOVEMBER EACH YEAR

Think about it – if a writer challenges himself/herself every year, for five years, to participate in NaNoWriMo, s/he will have five manuscripts that s/he can try to sell to a publisher.

And if one or two of those are accepted by a prominent publisher, s/he can opt for a full-time writer’s job.

And if all things go well, in years to come, a filmmaker may even pay him/her for the movie rights to adapt the story for the screen.   

EVERYONE HAS A STORY

I have stated this for a long time now – each one of us at least one good story. It is about time that we get that story down in a novel or novella.