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On a porch on a breezy courtyard at Allston's Church of Saints Luke and Margaret, Travis Kelley of Roslindale draws a chart on a large piece of paper. Fighting the wind, Kelley writes down the column heads "name," "beginning word count," "goal," and "final word count."

Have you been talking about that Great American Novel you were going to write since you were a teenager? You wrote maybe a few pages, and now those pages are disintegrating in your desk drawer. Well, perhaps you should get back on it because you're surrounded by burgeoning novelists and thrill-seekers right here in Boston, and they're all trying to churn out a 50,000-word manuscript by the end of this month.

Seasons are changing and Boston is preparing to enter the gloomy winter months. There is no reason to let the weather get you down with so much to do in November. This coming month is National Novel Writing Month where people from around the world write a 50,000 word novel in 30 days or less.