Jack Kerouac allegedly wrote On the Road in 3 weeks. Now a group of writers is institutionalizing his benzedrine-coffee-alcohol-mania-driven genius.
Welcome to November, the National Novel Writing Month.
Of course, November also happens to be National Stamp Collecting Month, National Pepper Month, and National Peanut Butter Lover’s Month, and, dare I say it, home of Thanksgiving, but I digress. Who wants turkey when you can produce 50,000 words in 30 days?
Start Typing: National Novel Writing Month by Shawn Westfall for the DCist provides a fantastic summary of one of November’s new National Month extravaganzas. Check out the article or NaNoWriMo (as if I could make that up) for how to register, lose your mind, and find yourself…with over 75,000 other people.
Or something like that.
