My first NaNoWriMo

by wss

My first NaNoWriMo was in 2003. My second was in 2004. The first draft from that NaNoWriMo became THE MOMENT OF EVERYTHING.

So I have deep affection for National Novel Writing Month.

Go to any coffee house in any part of the world during the month of November and you’re likely to find groups of people hovering over laptops, comparing word counts, and hooking up intravenous tubes to the espresso machine. They’re probably participants in National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) and their m...