November is National Novel Writing Month and the Varnum is joining hundreds of libraries across the nation to host a write-in event! Have you started that novel you’ve always wanted to write? Come join other authors and get it going! We’ll have coffee and snacks to keep you on-point, and provide a dedicated quiet-zone for maximum focus.

If you want to officially participate in NaNoWriMo, simply sign-up via their website. Though never a requirement to join write-in’s, they do offer a handy word tracker that can help keep you motivated and on track to hit the goal of 50,000 words by the end of the month. Visit their website for more information, and as always, call the Varnum any time.

National Novel Writing Month began in 1999 as a daunting but straightforward challenge: to write 50,000 words of a novel in thirty days. Now, each year on November 1, hundreds of thousands of people around the world begin to write, determined to end the month with a first draft. They enter the month as elementary school teachers, mechanics, or stay-at-home parents. They leave novelists.

NaNoWriMo is internet-famous. We’re community-powered (hello, Wrimos!). We’ve hosted authors drafting novels like Erin Morgenstern’s The Night Circus, Elizabeth Acevedo’s With the Fire on High, Rainbow Rowell’s Fangirl, Marissa Meyer’s Cinder, and more. Our website tracks words for writers like Fitbit tracks steps, and our volunteers host real-world writing events in cities from Seoul to Milwaukee like, well… like nothing else. Valuing enthusiasm, determination, and a deadline, NaNoWriMo is for anyone who has ever thought about writing a novel.