Chris Baty - No Plot? No Problem!: A Low-Stress, High Velocity Guide to Writing a Novel in 30 days

Pros: hilarious prose, useful suggestions
Cons: sidebars are difficult to read

National Novel Writing Month, or NaNoWriMo, is an annual event in which people do something crazy: they write 50,000 word novels. Every November individuals across the country – and for all I know around the world – participate in this challenge. ...

Pros: Information and inspiration to get you started writing the novel you always wanted to write
Cons: Illustrations too dark, self-marketing, not much useful real world novel publishing advice

Starting in 1999, Chris Baty and a few of his friends decided to do something crazy: force themselves to try and write a 50,000 word novel in one month. They officially coined this: National Novel Writing Month or NaNoWriMo for short, hence the website ...