At ABAM, every month is NaNoWriMo

NaNoWriMo, or National Novel Writing Month (as weirdo longhanders call it), is a curious thing to me.

It is of course very cool to give people an excuse to get that novel out, just as I’m sure ‘Movember’ is a great excuse to grow a mustache. But what if you already have a mustache and are already writing?

50,000 words is also an odd target. Sure, it’s the line where a novella becomes a novel, but not all stories have to be 50,000 words, just like movies don’t have to be two hours, and Netfli...