This exciting challenge began in 1999 with the goal of encouraging writers to complete a huge project, while also attempting to raise funds for Southeast Asia libraries for children. Since the inception of this innovative event with the initial 21 participants and six winners, it has inspired almost 60,000 other writers and awarded certificates to close to 10,000 participants, who achieved the goal of writing an entire novel from scratch (50,000 words) in one month.

It's free to participate and worth your time and effort. You can find out more on this website What is NaNoWriMo?

Participants should will not want to miss the following helpful resources.

You can download a free ebook titled
"NaNo for the New and the Insane"
- A NaNoWriMo Survival Guide featuring hints about how to approach a NaNo project.

Or find out how to improve your writing with this free software YWriter 2.3.32
a novel writing program for authors. It allows you to break your novel into chapters and scenes within chapters. You can reorder scenes using drag and drop, and you can print out a number of reports (summary, synopsis, scene list, work schedule). Gives you a running word count per scene and chapter, and the built-in editor auto-saves your work.

Consider joining other writers, who are participating in National Novel Writing Month, in this
Diary Circle

Listen to The Official National Novel Writing Month Podcast on Odeo at
WrimoRadio:

Get help writing your own novel with
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