The Challenge 

I was reading a site a while back in which someone was talking about NaNoWriMo, the National Novel Writing Month. As I recall, I linked to it last year, but didn't know about it until it was already underway or over or something. This year, though, I actually know about it ahead of time.
The concept it this. You write a novel. In a month.
The goal is to write a 50,000-word story between Nov. 1 and Nov. 30.
So, here's the challenge: I think ATW should do this.
I thinks we should write a novel in a month.
I don't even begin to have time to write a novel myself in a month with everything else I'm doing. But I could write part of a short one.
There are 22 weekdays during November 2004. If the writing were divided up between those days, an average of 2273 words would have to be written per day. If four people worked together, each would only have to write 568 words per day. Obviously, the more people involved, the fewer words each would have to write. Any writing done on weekends would reduce the number of words needed on each weekday. Any word over the minimum on a given entry would reduce the total number left.
We did something similar to this once before, way back. The idea would be to take turns writing the word requirement, with each writer picking up where the last left off.
The result would be that we would have a complete novel at the end of the month. Which would be pretty cool.
To quote their Web site:
Because of the limited writing window, the ONLY thing that matters in NaNoWriMo is output. It's all about quantity, not quality. The kamikaze approach forces you to lower your expectations, take risks, and write on the fly.
Make no mistake: You will be writing a lot of crap. And that's a good thing. By forcing yourself to write so intensely, you are giving yourself permission to make mistakes. To forgo the endless tweaking and editing and just create. To build without tearing down.
I mention it now so we can start thinking about it. While it would be wrong to start writing, we could start thinking about what it will be about.
This offer is open to anyone. If you've never, or rarely, posted on ATW before, that's cool. Come on.
So, who's with me?

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