alt title(s): National Novel Writing Month
Thirty days and nights of literary abandon!
It's the month of November. You have 30 days to write a 50,000 word novel. Editing is in December. Go to it.
The idea behind National Novel Writing Month is that many of us have at least one book inside of us, but we're too lazy to spend the time to write it, or simply get overcome by the scope of it all. Participants are encouraged to write without revising, without obsessing over what they're writing, but to just get words down. "No Plot? No Problem!" is their slogan. Remember: Editing is for December.
Official site
, a project of
The Office Of Lettersand Light.
See also:
Beansidhes Wail, for an example of a work written for
Na No Wri Mo (that didn't reach the 50,000 word count).
Examples of tropes exhibited by Na No Wri Mo:
- Chandler's Law - An advice for the writers, if you have written yourself in the corner, have ninjas enter.
- Cosmetic Award - The first and foremost prize for completing Nanowrimo is ... the mere satisfaction of completing one's novel. And a purple wordcount meter.
- It's For A Book - The official website has not one, but two forum sections dedicated to this purpose.
- Portmantitle
- Post Count - Some of the best-known Na No Wri Mo forumgoers are the ones with the highest post counts. The Na No Wri Mo forum has an entire subforum devoted to procrastination, which is filled with games and conversation threads. Some users use these threads simply to increase their post counts.
- Self Imposed Challenge - As if writing 50,000 words in 30 days wasn't enough of one already, some Nano writers set a personal goal of 100,000 (a "Double Nano"), 150,000 or more. There are even a few who have challenged a million words... successfully.
- Thread Necromancy - One famous thread on the procrastination forum is Thread Killer, in which users attempt to make the last post in the thread. Of course, the next poster unkills the thread, and users will go on for scores of posts creatively attempting to kill the thread.
- Thread Hopping - When the quick reply method was still around, some users would just read the first post, scroll to the quick reply section of the page, and reply without reading any of the other responses, especially for threads of the "share with the group" nature.
