NaNoWriMo
It was a dark and stormy night...
Oh, wait, that's Bulwer-Lytton, not NaNoWriMo.
You've never heard of NaNoWriMo? It's "National Novel Writing Month," and we've just
opened a new forum for it.
Your challenge? To write a 50,000 word novel in one month.
Your assets? The help and aspiration of your fellow writers, who will give you plot tips, comfort you with encouragement, brainstorm crazy ideas for you to use, and advise you as to the proper time to use mimes in a novel. And, a wheelbarrow. It's always to important to list that as an asset if you have it.
The main website for NaNoWriMo is here, if you'd like to sign up. (Warning: yesterday they were having some problems with the site -- apparently, we've discovered where our old sushi servers ended up -- but it seems to be cleared up by now). There are local writing groups all over, and of course we'd like to think that the Gaia forum could become a good place for writers to encourage each other.
~pan (two time NaNoWriMo winner)