Hi everyone, my name is Lotte Samarah and I discovered Novel November just today. I was thinking about the NaNoWriMo challenge and what had happened to it. I have been away from home the first two weeks of November but haven't stopped writing. on the contrary, I was on holiday and told myself: no writing this time. but as usual I got inspired and started a new story. I am a Dutch writer with two books on my name, one novel and one young adult. my third, another novel, is on the way. my test readers are reading their asses off and it won't be long before I can start editing. in the meantime I am writing a sequel on my young adult. all my writing is in Dutch, but I am hoping to translate my work to English to make it available for the world wide market as well. it was my intention to use NaNoWriMo for translating, but life had different ideas. I am happy we can go ahead with our challenge on this platform, so thank you for the people behind this website!! kudos to you!! To be fairly honest, I never succeeded with the 50k words at the end of November. and now I am already starting late, which is why I love we can set our own goals. mine is: a book by Christmas. I am planning on writing those 50k words this time in order to have my first draft by Christmas. I want to stay in a good flow and hopefully this website is going to help me :)