Follow the yellow brick road.

The words from the celebrated movie, “The Wizard of Oz” pretty much say it all for those willing to take a leap of faith.

For authors unsure about writing that first book, following the yellow brick road means making that first step and continuing with and completing the journey to that land of Oz.

What better way to start than today – Nov. 1, the official kick-off to NaNoWriMo.

For those of you not familiar with this rather odd term, it stands for National Novel Writing Month, a time to let the words flow.

The annual event was started in 1999 by Chris Baty to get wannabe writers started on writing a book.  

Have you always wanted to write a book? Are you dying to get words onto that computer screen or piece of paper?

Have you always dreamed of being an author? Now is the time to make that dream come alive.

With NaNoWriMo, you write a 50,000-word novel in a month’s time.

But you don’t have to participate in the official event to start pounding that keyboard and creating that book of your dreams.

You can make it happen on your own.

Today is as good a time as any.

What have you got to lose?

Mike Reuther is a novelist and the author of books on writing. Check out his Amazon page at https://www.amazon.com/Mike-Reuther/e/B009M5GVUW