This photo was taken last weekend at The Allan K. Smith Writing Center, which has now held two write-ins at Trinity as part of National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo).  NaNoWriMo is an organization that encourages writers to dedicate a month (November) to sitting down and writing a 50,000 word novel.  Writers register online at nanowrimo.org and sign in to the region in which they’ll be writing their novel; this provides writers with nearby support, but also adds a competitive aspect as various regions enter word count wars with each other. Trinity College is a part of the “Connecticut: North” region, which has 416 active writers right now, and, as a region, has written 3.5 million words this month.  

“The goal isn’t perfection, or even, ultimately, to publish, but, rather, to just get people writing,” Alexander Champoux ’11, organizer of the first write-in at Trinity College, said.

For more information, contact Champoux at Alexander.Champoux@trincoll.edu.