If you’ve never been introduced to Nanowrimo, the word is shorthand for “National Novel Writing Month.” The idea is that a participant will write at least 50,000 words of a novel in the month of November. It’s intended to be a crappy first draft that you write while banishing your inner editor, something I’m not sure I can accomplish, but here we go anyway. November 1st marks the beginning of this adventure.
Coach Culbertson, the Founding Editor of The Midnight Diner (and my husband), created a video course called Write A Book in 30 Days, and I’m about to try it out. If you’re giving Nanowrimo a go, you might want to check it out, too. There’s a little bit of pre-work that you can do in these last two days of October, so click over it out right away 
Good luck, Kim. I’m trying to use Nanowrimo as motivation to finish the last 6 chapters of my novel (4 years in the works). I figure if there are people out there who can hammer out 50,000 words in a month, there’s no excuse for me not finishing those last 15,000. But like you said, it’s all a matter of banishing that inner editor. Which isn’t easy.
Let us know how it goes.
My 9 yr old homeschooled son is participating in the junior NANOWRIMO!
Chris, I am all for you finishing that novel. If you don’t finish writing it, how will I ever buy it?
I have worked off and on for about ten years at my novel about Joshua and Caleb spying in Canaan for the tribes of Israel. Two years ago I became serious about getting it done. It still needs a lot of work. However, for NaNoWriMo, I am writing the sequel – Israel turned back from Canaan and wandering the wilderness for forty years. I intend to show the army being rebuilt over the next generation. Maybe Relief could publish it?
John-Paul, congrats on pushing through to finish your novel and write the sequel! As for Relief publishing it, it’s probably a long shot since we don’t actually publish novels