So, as many of you writers know, November is National Novel Writing Month. I wonder who came up with that idea. Did someone just wake up one day and say: “I should write a novel in a month—and declare that month sacred for writing!”? Or did a community of writers race each other to write a finished novel in the month of November?

Hmm, I really should look into that, maybe have a history lesson put together for you guys later this month….

Either way, NaNoWriMo is something extraordinary. I mea...