MayNoWriMo is a monthlong writing quest for people who live in and around Maynard, MA. Anyone can participate: just set a writing goal for the month, share your goal, and start writing! MayNoWriMo begins on November 1, 2025.

How It Works

1. Anyone can participate!
2. Choose a writing goal for yourself - any goal that works for you
3. If you'd like to share your progress, set up a TrackBear account
3. On November 1, 2025, start writing!
4. Attend in-person or virtual write-ins during November
5. Post your progress on TrackBear
6. If you reach your goal by Nov 30, you win!*
7. At the end of the month, celebrate with the MayNoWriMo community

* Even if you don't reach your goal, you still win! Because you did the most important thing - you wrote!

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Background

MayNoWriMo is inspired by National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo). NaNoWriMo began in 1999 when a group of 21 friends challenged each other to write the first draft of 50,000 word novel in a single month. It didn't matter how beautiful or polished your writing was - if you wrote 50,000 words, you won!

Over the next 25 years, NaNoWriMo inspired hundreds of thousands of aspiring writers to become novelists. In 2025, the non-profit behind NaNoWriMo closed, but the spirit lives on. With the support of a community, anyone who puts the work in can be a writer.

I did my first NaNoWriMo in 2015 and it was amazing! Then I had a second kid, life got busy, the world got crazy, and I realized 50,000 was probably too much for now.

But I also realized it's not the number that matters.

What matter is setting a goal and sharing it with people who can support you. Committing to a creative challenge that's outside of your comfort zone. Giving voice to the stories you hold within you. That's what matters

So I decided to start a local WriMo. For MayNoWriMo, you can set any goal you want: One sentence per day. One poem per day. One cartoon. 1,667 words. Fifteen minutes. Whatever your goal, just be brave enough to share it with at least one person who will help you stick with you. You'll be amazed at what you are able to create!

Get in Touch

Have a question? Want to volunteer? Interested in partnering?

Email MaynardWrites@gmail.com