This week I will be joining tens of thousands of writers around the world and endeavouring to write a novel in 30 days. It’s the National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) and this will be my first year.

I don’t know if I will reach my goal of 50,000 words by midnight 30 November 2007. I do know that whatever I produce in this intensive month of creation will not be ‘the world’s greatest novel’. So why do it? I do it because writing, in any form, gives me a great deal of satisfaction and enjoyment. NaNoWriMo gives writers the opportunity to come together and celebrate the simple good fun they have when writing freely and without judgment. Continue reading →