November is right around the corner, and that means...NaNoWriMo

Each year from November 1st through 30th thousands of people set pen to paper, or fingers to keys, and attempt to write 50,000 words in 30 days.  That's right, I said 50,000 words in 30 days.  We like to call November NaNoWriMo, or National Novel Writing Month.

Why do we do this?  Is it the challenge?  Is it just a good way to keep our writing muscles exercised?  Is to be able to say "I did it!"?  I think there are a lot of reason why, for myself it's the challenge, and it's also a great way to spread the practice of reading and writing and to further literacy.  In fact, NaNoWriMo is organized by a non-profit organization dedicated to literacy for everyone by sponsoring events like NaNoWriMo and other various writing based events.  'National Novel Writing Month', which use to be known as the 'Office of Letters and Light', also conducts a fundraising drive as part of NaNoWriMo during November to support creative writing programs for more than half a million children and adults in approximately 200 countries, including 2,000 classrooms, 650 libraries and more.

For more information about NaNoWriMo go to http://www.nanowrimo.org

And if you write for fun, or have ever considered writing story or a novel, go ahead and sign up for NaNoWriMo this year and join myself and thousands of others as we dash out ideas, scribble down words, and fight our way through tangled plots, oh and have lots of fun doing it!  :)  If you do NaNoWriMo already, or are thinking of doing it this year, let me know.