The Young Writers Program of National Novel Writing Month is a fun, seat-of-your- pants approach to novel writing. Participants begin writing November 1. The goal is to write a novel by midnight, November 30. The word-count goal for our adult program is 50,000 words, but our Young Writers Program allows participants who are 17 years old and younger to set reasonable, yet challenging, word-count goals.

I will be working in the challenge, and am very excited! Please join me for a month full of writing fun!

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 strange stuff, and some of it will be just plain bad. But that’s a good thing! For 30 days, you get to lock that inner editor in the basement, let your imagination take over, and just create!

As you spend November writing, you can draw comfort from the fact that, all around the world, other National Novel Writing Month participants of all ages are going through the same joys and sorrows of producing the Great Frantic Novel.

In 2007, over 100,000 adults participated through our main site, and 14,000 young writers participated through our Young Writers Program.

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1. On stage the dancers were ………
2. Composting is one of the ………
3. Alicia pressed her body tighter against the cliff face as she listened to the tiny stones ………

From WakeUpWriting.com

Scene sketches are where you are given the basic information and it’s up to you to fill in the detail and create a scene. 

Your scene sketch today is:

A character is pulled over by the police for speeding.  There’s a crying baby in the car.  It’s 3pm and a weekday.  Lots of traffic on the road.  Your character doesn’t have any ID.  The other details and what happens next is up to you.

Post your scene sketches in the comments!

But what you do with them is entirely up to you! 

As long as your exercise has all 3 of the component parts within it in some context, you’re a winner.

Year:  1968

Place:  New York

Event:  Ice skating

Have fun! Go crazy! Post what you write as a comment!