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National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) is approaching! Every year, people across the world, not just the nation, try and write that novel they’ve always said they’ll write. The official charity that supported the event imploded earlier this year. But the event goes forward with or without official support. There’s tons of other organizations, businesses, and charities that are trying to pick up the pieces, but I don’t have much to say on that. I’m focused on trying to do the challenge for myself.

The goal of NaNoWriMo is to write 50,000 words in November. Whether that finishes a novel or just provides the first part isn’t important. My book might end up being longer, but I don’t know yet. The goal is just to write, not edit, so the final word count might be less as editing prunes the count down. Most novels are actually longer coming in close to 100,000 words so 50,000 is really just a starting point.

Another important part of NaNoWriMo is that the writing has to occur during the month. I’ve written a tiny bit of my planned novel before the month, so I don’t get to count those words for the 50,000 word total. The outline that I’ve already written is allowed though.

Here’s the 53 word bit I’ve already written

I’ll be writing my novel on the blog. Hopefully with a new post every day for whatever I’ve written that day. With 30 days in November that’s an average of 1,667 words per day or about 5 pages.

Each post will have chapter titles which don’t count for the word total. At the bottom of the post I’ll put how many words were in that post along with a running word count. With 50,053 being our target number by the end of November 30th. I’ll also slap these little button things at the bottom to help navigate for people reading the posts. And anyone reading better keep in mind that this isn’t edited.