The eNotes Blog What Are You Doing for the Next 30 Days NaNoWriMo, ThatsWhat

What Are You Doing for the Next 30 Days NaNoWriMo, ThatsWhat All you fellow writers out there know tell anyone, anyone at all the taxi driver, a sales clerk, your grandfather, what you do for a living and 50% of the time you will get   a version of the following: A writer, huh? You know, I always thought I had a novel in me. The other 50% of the time, you will get a variation of this response:   I have always felt my life story would make a  great  book. I need to write that down soon. And who is to say that some of these people DONT actually have a book inside them? (Well, we are pretty sure the gum-chomping girl at the Abercrombie does not, but then again, this is a real thing in the world.) During the month of November, you can tell those would-be writers, and perhaps  yourself,  to stop talking about it and really do it. You will be in good company. NaNoWriMo is the acronym for National Novel Writing Month.   NaNoWriMo is a collaborative effort involving thousands of writers and millions of words. According to the projects website, NaNoWriMo is the world’s largest writing event and nonprofit literary crusade. Participants pledge to write 50,000 words in a month, starting from scratch and reaching â€Å"The End† by November 30. There are no judges, no prizes, and entries are deleted from the server before anyone even reads them. So what are you waiting for? November 1st is already half over and you still have 50,000 words to go.