Check Here For Daily Installments Of Tom's 2009 Novel For NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month). NaNoWriMo is an international, seat-of-the-pants approach to writing a novel. Beginning November 1, participants make themselves, and those around them, crazy in an attempt to write a 50,000 word novel by November 30. For more information, or to try it yourself, see www.nanowrimo.org.