Is NaNoWriMo still a Thing?

What you all do to yourselves!
Participants must write an average of approximately 1,667 words per day in November 

to reach the goal of 50,000 words written toward a novel.


 I want to thank Lee McKenzie for hosting my giveaway for  SILHOUETTES IN THE KEY OF SCREAM
CONGRATULATIONS  to the winners: 
Tonja Drecker, J Lenni Dorner, and Mary Aalgaard!
But back to NaNoWriMo ...
Does a good novel have to be 50,000 words?

Let's check out a few:
The Old Man and the Sea Hemingway - 27,000A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens – 28,000Animal Farm by George Orwell – 29,000Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck – 30,000 It took Dickens six weeks to write  A CHRISTMAS CAROL
I did my New Orleans' version of his novel

 in the same length of time.{35,000 Words}

WHEW! 
Good luck to those of youwriting all this month!
Oh, look for BEWARE THE JADE CHRISTMASaround Black Friday.
Christmas Eve, New Orleans, 1946
Not a good time  to walk the streets at night!