This blog is one nonfiction writer’s response to National Novel Writing Month (NANOWRIMO), a contest that has fiction writers writing 50,000 words in 30 days during November. To find out more, click here. This blog challenges nonfiction writers to spend the month of November writing and completing a work of nonfiction. It also discusses nonfiction writing and publishing and provide a way for nonfiction writers to comment on their writing experiences during November each year. This is not a contest!
To participate, simply “sign in” if you want (you also can remain anonymous) describing your WNFIN project and goals. Then you go off and write for 30 days. Come back and report in if you like on the status updates page. You comment on the various blog posts or on the WNFIN Facebook page. The latter offers a great place to converse with other WNFIN participants. Come back at the end of the November and update your status. Let everyone know if you met the challenge and finished your project in 30 days.
That’s it. Unless you also want to share what you learned from the blog, but hopefully you’ve also done that during the course of the month by commenting on individual posts.
Easy schmeazy, right? Right. Good luck!
To find out more, click here.
If you want to find out more about the nonfiction writer who founded WNFIN, click here.
nina,
i was on your namw teleseminar.
it was quite informative.
does WNFIN have any kind of sign up process like Nanowrimo?
rosalyn
Hi Rosalyn!
I’m glad you found the teleseminar useful.
WNFIN does not have a sign up process. It’s about challenging yourself. You keep track of what you are doing. On November 1, you just start reading the blog and writing.
I hope you’ll take the challenge!
Nina
I am so ready fo rthis challange! just what I need to make my next deadline!!
Glad to have you here and writing! You might want to sign in under “pages” and “participants.” Then check out the forum!
Hi there, I’ve been wanting to publish a memoir or collection of essays for a while now. Though I haven’t decided yet, this project interests me. There are a few writers signed up to work together on their novels a few times each week in November for the novel-writing month, so I may check them out. Anyway, nice blog!
I hope you’ll come on over here and sign in and keep us posted under status updates how your doing, Charisse. Encourage the NaNo Rebels to come on over, too!
I’m always a little late to the party but glad I arrived. I love the book ideas: The Well Loved Man and the one on Thoreau and Hebrew proposed in the comments and I’d buy both when they r out. I have an Italian family heritage website, http://www.Geraldeena.com full of pics and New York City stories that I want to turn into a blog and a self-published set of memoirs perhaps a guilt trilogy since I’ve been at this a while and the stories span childhood, coming of age, sex and life in the big city (the underbelly) and the descent into caregiving my elderly father with a common thread running through them being ITALIAN GUILT AND THE PURSUIT OF GLAMOR. Ciao for now.