National Novel Writing Month National Novel Writing Month is a fun, seat-of-your-pants approach to novel writing. Participants begin writing November 1. The goal is to write a 175-page (50,000-word) novel by midnight, November 30. National Novel Writing Month is an annual novel writing project that brings together professional and amateur writers from all over the world. fictionmonthnationalnovelwriting in Public bookmarkswith booksfictionnovelswritingby 22 users