National Novel Writing Month, a.k.a. NaNoWriMo, is the biggest writing contest in the world, but contest for what? Best novel? No way, it’s a contest against you, that always wanted to write a book and never managed to finish.

In November, you need to reach 50.000 words, don’t worry about quality and editing, this is for december, november is the month to produce volume, it’s less then 2000 words a day. If you already tried to write anything, you’ll know that 2000 words a day is hard, but good enough to achieve.

One other important thing is, no one will look into your writings, unless you want to send to someone, NaNoWriMo doesn’t request or save what you write, it’s all yours and you can publish whenever you want, remember it’s a personal challenge.

Let’s see some statistics:

1999: 21 participants and six winners

2000: 140 participants and 29 winners

2001: 5000 participants and more than 700 winners

2002: 13,500 participants and around 2,100 winners

2003: 25,500 participants and about 3,500 winners

2004: 42,000 participants and just shy of 6,000 winners

2005: 59,000 participants and 9,769 winners

2006: 79,813 participants and 12,948 winners

2007: 101,510 participants and 15,333 winners

2008: 119,301participants and 21,683 winners

I am in, will be using Scrivener, hope you motivate your self and join us! See you there in http://www.NaNoWriMo.org!