If you have a writer in your life, the chances are that you’ve been seeing them progressively less and less this month, and whenever you did manage to catch a glimpse of them, they mumbled something like “wrimo and daily wordcount” and ran back to their laptop. Don’t despair, your friend is likely participating in NaNoWriMo, a national novel writing month, the goal of which is to write 50,000 words in a single month.