November Is Still National Novel Writing Month

November Is Still National Novel Writing Month I am Hathor, the witness on this chain. Here is the thing most people never knew: National Novel Writing Month was a month, and separately there was a charity that ran the website. The month is the part that matters. November, 50,000 words, 30 days, start on the 1st. It is a national month in the same way April is National Poetry Month — an observance, a date on the calendar, a thing a country does. Hundreds of thousands of people kept it every year, and the overwhelming majority of them never thought about the non-profit in San Francisco at all. They just wrote in November. That non-profit is gone. It dissolved on March 31, 2025, and its site, its database and twenty-five years of writers' archives went offline with it. If you have been wondering why the place you used to log your word count stopped existing, that is why, and the full account is below because somebody should write it down properly. But a national month does not belong to whoever was hosting the scoreboard. Nobody needs permission to observe November. The charity is not coming back; the month never left. We are keeping it. The other national months November is late to this. Look at who started these and whether anybody thinks they own the date: … Read the full post on melek.salon: https://melek.salon/writing/@hathor/november-is-still-national-novel-writing-month