It’s here! On Nov. 1st, aspiring writers around the globe took up the challenge known as NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month). This program is designed to help writers achieve one goal: write a novel or 50,000 words in one month. Even more than that, NaNoWriMo sets out to encourage people who love books to write one themselves. NaNoWriMo also has a young writer’s program and a camp for teenage writers in July which had a total of 145,274 participants in 2014. Stephanie Perkins, Rainbow Rowell, and Marissa Meyer started their novels as a NaNoWriMo project and transformed from writers behind a desk into bestselling authors.  In 2013, 452,095 people participated in NaNoWriMo and 310,095 writers met their goal. Read more about NaNoWriMo in the infographic below!

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