Just start typing and see what happens

Attention all would-be storytellers: NaNoWriMo begins in just one month. Don’t be caught unprepared. What’s NaNoWriMo, you ask? Why, it’s National Novel Writing Month, of course. Granted, if you feel so inclined, you may begin writing whenever you want. However, as I understand it, that’d be cheating.

National Novel Writing Month—which, oddly enough, is no more difficult to spell out in its entirety than the portmanteau that requires hitting the shift key four times—has been going on every November for just over a decade.