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 excerpt?
- 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?
- Really? How can I be sure that you aren't going to take my novel and sell it as your own, as seen in the film Morvern Callar?
- Are you a non-profit? Is my donation tax-deductible? Do you do corporate matching gifts?
- Can anyone participate in NaNoWriMo?
- Can I change my username?
- Can I change the email address associated with my account once I am logged in?
- Can I delete my old username/account?
- Can I donate by check?
- Can I donate to NaNoWriMo in a foreign currency?
- Can I get sponsors to donate on my behalf?
- Can I keep writing and adding to my word count even after I've had the novel verified?
- Can I participate if I'm not American?
- Can I post my whole novel as my novel excerpt?
- Can I share writing duties with a partner?
- Can I use my account on the main site on the Young Writers Program site?
- Can I use NaNoWriMo to write a screenplay?
- Can I write in a foreign language?
- Can I write one word 50,000 times?
- Did you know there is a group in Vancouver that writes novels in a weekend?
- Do I have to start my novel from scratch on November 1?
- Do we write our novels online through your website?
- Do you read the novels that get sent in?
- Do you ship internationally? How much will it cost?
- Does that mean I can't use an outline or notes?
- How and when do I get a shiny halo next to my name on the forums?
- How can I get in touch with writers in my area?
- How can I scramble my novel before submitting it to your untrustworthy word-counting goons?
- How can I tell if I am logged in?
- How do I post a novel excerpt?
- How do I update my word count?
- How do I upload a picture?
- How do you define "novel?" Does fan fiction count? What if I want to write interconnected short stories rather than a novel?
- How do you pronounce NaNoWriMo?
- How do you stop people from cheating, then? Couldn't participants claim whatever word count they want?
- I am getting a ton of emails in my inbox! How do I stop them?
- I have a lot to do in November. Can I start in October and end early?
- I have an account from last year. Do I need to re-register?
- I lost my password and/or username.
- I lost my username and/or password and I no longer have access to the email address that I signed up with.
- I would like to form a strategic alliance with NaNoWriMo to promote my software/website/product. Who can I talk to about this?
- I'd like to write an article on NaNoWriMo. Can I interview some of the participants in my area?
- If I have signed up already on the main site, do I automatically have an account on the YWP site or vice versa?
- If I'm just writing 50,000 words of crap, why bother? Why not just write a real novel later, when I have more time?
- Is it true there's an official guidebook to NaNoWriMo?
- Is NaNoWriMo volunteer-run? Can I help out?
- Is there a minimum age to participate?
- Municipal Liaisoning sounds pretty cool. Can I be the ML for my area?
- Oh. I've been saying it NAN-no WREE-Mo.
- Should I update my word count on both the main and YWP sites?
- Tell me more about the "Thank God It's Over" Party.
- This is my first year. How does the registration and log-in process work?
- This page isn't helping me at all!
- What do I do if I see something bad in the forums?
- What else should I know about usernames?
- What happened to the "Authors Search" function?
- What happened to the Libraries in Southeast Asia Project?
- What if there's a discrepancy between what my word count said and what yours comes up with?
- What should I do with my cookies?
- What should I do with my firewall settings?
- What's that "NaNoMail" link that I see at the top of the site when I'm signed in?
- What's the deal with your laptop lending library? Do you really send free laptops to participants?
- What's with the forums? What am I supposed to do there?
- When is the cut off date for novel validation?
- Which browsers does NaNoWriMo support? What should I do if I notice a browser bug?
- Why do some forums have a little sun icon on them? What does All-Ages mean?
- Will participants meet each other?