National Novel Writing Month, or NaNoWriMo, is an annual challenge that takes place each November. Participants commit to writing daily to produce a 50,000-word novel in 30 days
As the author of this column, I’m often accused of doing all or most of the dares myself and pretending to be other people, but I’m happy to inform you that those subjects are all actual live people. So I’ve never properly introduced myself.
I love graphic design, making complicated crafts with my kids, and all kinds of creative pursuits, among them writing. But with two jobs and several small people in the house, I rarely find the time to write fiction.
The last piece of fiction I wrote, as my parents repeatedly mention, was a seventh-grade assignment about a drummer boy in some English war. The drummer boy died. (Obviously. I was 12.) My parents fondly remind me of that piece at every opportunity, so it’s about time to follow up with something a little higher quality, if only so I can erase the memory of my seventh-grade literary pretensions.
National Novel Writing Month, or NaNoWriMo, is an annual challenge that takes place each November. Participants commit to writing daily to produce a 50,000-word novel in 30 days.
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