NaNoWriMo: Who’s Crazy Enough to Write 50K Words in 30 Days?

It’s the first day of NaNoWriMo, National Novel Writing Month.

It’s also my husband’s birthday.

This happens every year on November first, an extreme conflict of interests in my own life — my desire to do nothing but write, and the fact that life just gets in the way.

Participating in NaNoWriMo means taking on the goal of writing 50,000 words of a novel in 30 days.

It works out to writing roughly 1,600 words per day.

You can create an account on nanowrimo.org and keep track of your writing each day.

The website automatically does the math and lets you know how many words you have left to write …

And, at the rate you are going, how long it will take you to write 50K words.

November first is the day that #NaNoWriMo is trending, 50 or so of my Facebook friends are sharing the title of their novel, its genre or theme, and how many words they managed to write on the first day.

November first is my husband’s birthday.

I’ve participated in NaNoWriMo nearly every year since 2012, and my word count at the end of the day on November first is nearly always zero.