I just signed up for National Novel Writing Month! (NaNoWriMo)

Good luck to you (and all who are taking part this year)! And a word of advice; remember, 50,000 sounds like a lot. Don't think of it as 50,000 but as a certain amount each day or each 48 hours. 1666 (ominous number!) a day or 3332 in 48 hours is almost nothing. You wrote close to 100 words in your little post... so think how easy it is to write a couple of thousand. I wrote 24,000 words in a week once... I was feeling very antisocial, lol. I've never taken part in NaNoWriMo, though for the last few years I have thought about it. I was lacking in ideas and was always working on something else that was part way through or close to completion. That and combining NaNo with university is a little challenging! This year though, I've had some things boiling in the back of my mind for a few months that really need me to sit down and write them. Perhaps NaNo is just the thing I need to get them off the ground. I'd have a few days less than everyone else though; my birthday celebrations are more important than NaNo

Good luck to you! I have never done the NaNoWriMO, but every year I look at it.

I'm doing NaNo for the third time this year. I've never finished, but I hope to this year. It's a lot of work, but it can be fun, especially if you don't get too seriou about it. The forums have lots of great advice, and having buddies can really be a big help for some people. I've been working on my novel since August, and have loads of notes, and a sort of outline for the first six chapters, so I feel pretty confident about it. Good luck to you.

Congratulations. I have never done NaNoWriMo, but my husband managed to do four years worth before we married. Since then life has been crazy and now we have a two year old. I am hoping that we can both do it next year. Good Luck and don't forget to have fun!

ohhh that starts in like 11 days!!! how can I sign up? and do I have to count the words manually? I have like 80,000,000 novel ideas (ok way total exageration, I have maybe 3) But I think I know which one I want to do, Lucky me Ive been working on the mapping system, and have been pounding out a lot of the plotline in the past year, hopefully I can at least get a first draft out :D 50,000 words... hmmmm... I'm assuming you can do more... but... is there a free software you think I could get that would work for win 98? does anybody know if I could? thanks for posting I had TOTALLY forgotten about NaNoWriMo