Write the Story Writing Challenge—the 50k alternative.
Choose your challenge and write the story that's been whispering to you.
- Short Story = 5k – 10k
- Novelette = 7.5k – 17k
- Novella = 10k – 40k
- Novel = 50k – 100k
This challenge is a Tiered Writing Challenge. That means you choose your word count. You decide what story you are going to tell. Then, you show up and write. When you hit the word-count goal of the tier you selected, you celebrate because that is a win!
November Writing Challenges
First there was NaNo (National Novel Writing Month). But they closed down in March 2025. Since they closed down, a few different Internet writing sites have stepped up to fill the gap NaNoWriMo’s absence has left.
The thing they all have in common? The goal is 50,000 words.
As a past participant of NaNo, I hit that 50k word goal and won the NaNo challenge twice. But, honestly, “winning” NaNo was challenging. As a mama and an autistic adult, sustaining a daily 1,787 word count to hit that 50k goal too often left me exhausted and overwhelmed, to the point I missed the 50k mark many of the years I participated in the NaNo writing challenge.
That’s why this year I decided to offer a differently-focused writing challenge. A differently-focused writing challenge for those of us with differently-focused brains—a neurodivergent-friendly writing challenge. One that includes tiered options to get to the winner’s circle and offers encouragement to show up and write the story in you.
I’d love you to join me this November, friends.
Let’s Write the Story!
