This section contains the most common questions about National Novel Writing Month
- What do I do with my manuscript to become a NaNoWriMo winner?
- How do I delete my exceprt?
- How do I delete my profile?
- How often do you do this?
- Who will read my novel when I'm done?
- Do you edit or publish the finished products?
- Does NaNoWriMo own to the rights to novels written during November?
- Is there a fee to participate?
- Do I need to have a personal website to participate?
- When can I sign up?
- When do I start writing?
- How do you win? Are there judges? What are the prizes?
- Can I handwrite the novel?
- What if I start and don't finish?
- What if I hit 50,000 words but I'm only halfway through my story?
- How many novels have been written through NaNoWriMo?
- Has anyone had their novel published?
- Why 50,000 words? Isn't that more of a novella?
- Why are you doing this? What do you get out of it?
- How do you define "novel?" Does fan fiction count? What if I want to write interconnected short stories rather than a novel?
- I'd like to write an article on NaNoWriMo. Can I interview some of the participants in my area?
- Is it true there's an official guidebook to NaNoWriMo?