As we reported earlier today, November 1st marks the beginning of National Novel Writing Month, a month-long “month” that encourages the nation’s writers to write 50 000 written words of a novel over the period of that nation’s month: It’s national a month of writing a novel for a month, on a national level. To put it succinctly: NaNoWriMo.

To make it easier, participants are encouraged to write 1500 – 2000 words a day, but some Twitter users are taking on NaNoWriMo 140 characters at a time. Actually, people have taken the opportunity to write the opening lines of a novel in jest and are using the hashtag #NaNoWriMoOpeners as just a good place to put jokes. I don’t think anyone on Twitter is taking it seriously, although some openers I encountered made so little sense that they could only have been written by someone earnestly trying to create something transcendent. (Will it work? We’ll know in a month!) As expected, Weird Twitter reared its head to bring us some of the best tweets of the ‘tag. Of course, some Toronto Standard contributors (myself included) had some pretty good ones as well.

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Michael Kolberg is The Sprawl Editor at Toronto Standard. Follow him on Twitter for jokes @mikeykolberg

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