"National Novel Writing Month is a fun, seat-of-your-pants approach to novel writing. Participants begin writing November 1. The goal is to write a 200-page (50,000-word) novel by midnight, November 30.

Valuing enthusiasm and perseverance over talent and craft, NaNoWriMo is a novel writing program for everyone who has thought fleetingly about writing a novel but has been scared away by the time and effort involved."

http://www.nanowrimo.com/about.htm

A friend of mine wrote: "Anything that values enthusiasm over talent suits my caffeine-honed attention span, particularly when the stakes are low (29 of 140 participants finished last year). Up for a challenge?"

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