FREE RANGE writing
Get in the NaNoWriMo zone before November’s marathon with exercises from Jenny Alexander
Jenny Alexander
We’re all writers here so, for us, November can only mean one thing – NaNoWriMo. It’s nearly twenty years since November became National Novel Writing Month, and now hundreds of thousands of people take part every year.
Lots of people say they would write a novel if they had time and NaNoWriMo is an opportunity to make time, by dedicating yourself to writing 50,000 words in thirty days. That’s under 2,000 words per day – tough, but do-able. At the very least, by the end of it participants will know how it feels to write a novel, and some will come away with a first draft that feels worth working on.