#Nanowrimo2019 – what’s the point?

If you’ve never heard of it, Nanowrimo is an annual event in which novelists and aspiring novelists are challenged each November to write 50,000 words in the course of the month. It’s been going on for quite a while and although, November being a Novemberish kind of month, I occasionally make a private challenge to myself to sit down and write, I’ve never embarked on the ‘full nano’ until now.

#nanowrimo as a concept has mixed reviews. Not everyone (hardly anyone?) ends up with a novel or even th...