The November Novel Challenge
1,667 words a day. We track it for you.Free account. No credit card. Write in WritingHabit, or track your words manually.
Write. Watch it count. Repeat 30 times.
Daily writing progress
Project: The Salt Road
887 to go
1,667 goal
Day one
1,698 needed / day
of 50,000
It tracks itself — write in WritingHabit and the count lands here. Your goal, your pace — change the target mid-month and the daily number follows. Every state is a post — any card above exports as a ready-made graphic.
A spreadsheet can't sprint with you.
Bring your writing group, your class, or your followers into one private space with its own leaderboard — then write at the same time, live.Write with your people
One invite link. Its own leaderboard, shared totals, and a place to talk.
1
Rowan Ellis
24,310
2
Priya Nair
22,905
3
You
19,280
4
Dana Cole
16,116
5
Theo Marsh
12,480
Everyone writes at once
Pick a time, share the link. Word counts climb live for everyone in the room.
Team Cyan
Team Amber
Group leaderboard
Daily, monthly and all-time. Losing to your critique partner by 400 words hits different.
Nobody gets left out
Writers on another app can still join by logging words in a manually tracked project.
Sprints on your schedule
Solo, free-for-all, teams, or a monster you beat by writing. Ten minutes or an hour.
Every 2,000 words is a raffle ticket
Every 2,000 words
1 entry
Every 15,000 words
5 bonus entries
Every 5 days you write
1 entry
Every group sprint
1 entry
Word entries cap at 50 — 100,000 words.
Prizes include Pro subscriptions and more — the full list is announced before the challenge starts.
Write between November 1 and 30
Any project, new or already started
Any app — words sync or log manually
Set any goal; change it anytime
Plan before you start
Lay your book's foundation in October: logline, characters, tropes and beats. When week two goes quiet, see how published novels handled the same moment.The Salt Road
Your plan · fantasy
A disgraced cartographer guides a salt caravan across the desert she once mapped wrong, and has to find the route before the wells run dry.
Every map lies a little. Hers got forty people killed. Now the only caravan that will hire her is following that same road.
Dune · True Grit
To clear her name.
To trust someone else's map.
The road was never hers to own.
10%
Catalyst
The caravan master recognizes her.
25%
Break into two
They leave the last well.
50%
Midpoint
Her old map was right all along.
75%
All is lost
The water runs out.
Your posts, already designed
Make social posts from your best writing, every sprint, and every day you hit the target — without opening a design app (includes customizations).Made automatically when a sprint ends — solo, monster, free-for-all or teams.
FAQ
No. Pick 50K, 25K, or your own number. Your daily target and stretch tiers follow whatever you choose, and you can change it mid-month.
Joining the challenge is free, with no credit card. You'll have access to tracking, sprints, some streak details, and challenge leaderboards on a free account.
Words track themselves when you write inside WritingHabit. From anywhere else, log them in a manually tracked project and everything else — streaks, leaderboards, sprints, stretch tiers — works the same.
Yes. Any project counts. Only the words you write inside the challenge month go toward the challenge.
Your streak resets; your month doesn't. The words-needed-per-day number recalculates from what's left, so one bad Tuesday never ends the attempt.
Yes — make a private group, share the invite link, and you get your own leaderboard, shared totals, a discussion space and live sprints.