What's "Nanowrimo?"

“Nanowrimo” stands for national novel writing month. National novel writing month is this month! It’s not just a month you celebrate novel writing, although it might’ve started out that way. It’s become a challenge or a time when you challenge yourself with writing. 

Authors aren’t the only ones who participate. The overall, most famous challenge, and the beginning of Nanowrimo is writing 50,000 words this month. For writers like myself, that’s is far too big a task for me to even think about. So I modified it for myself. I challenged myself to write a thousand words a day. I ended up getting to 15,000 before getting tired of it. 

This month, although it’s already started, I suggest you start a challenge for yourself. You may not be someone who writes, but I want you to try. Every challenge can be different. Maybe you promise to find a writing prompt once a month and write at least 500 words on it. And let me tell you, 500 words is really not many when you’re writing. 

The quality of the writing isn’t even the point. It’s about writing without worrying about this typo or this wording that could definitely be better. It’s about putting words on paper. I haven’t challenged myself this year. Although, while writing this, I realized that’s stupid and I definitely need to make one. 

I’m thinking I’ll promise to either fix that story I tried to write last year, or promise to write at least 17,000 for a new one I’m trying to write. Either way, I’ll eventually share them with you. I want to hear what your challenges are for yourself and what you end up writing.