For those of you who aren’t WriMos – a brief explanation. A WriMo is a participant in NaNoWriMo, which stands for National Novel Writing Month, an international challenge to write a 50,000 word novel in one month, run in November.

50,000 words in one month, it sounds daunting. 1,667 words each and every day and all this on top of work and family commitments. If you think this means that for one month you’d have to become a social hermit and abandon any thought of getting to bed before ...