The Ups and Downs of National Novel Writing Month (Nanowrimo)

In case you haven’t heard, November 1st was the start of what those of us in the writing community call Nanowrimo, which is basically a month set aside for people to write a 50,000 word manuscript and then call it a day…or a month. It’s based on the average size of a novel (about 200 pages) and the realization that they usually clock in at about 50,000 words. Now, you could write the…