November is National Novel Writing Month (NanoWriMo 2021) and this year I’ve been taking part and documenting my efforts to write a 50,000-word novel in a single month on Instagram and on the Words & Nerds Podcast’s NanoWriMo special series. I took part in Nano last year, too, alongside writers Dani Vee, Adrian Beck and Julianne Negri. I didn’t quite make the 50,000-word goal but I did make it by about mid-December and I’m pleased to say that the middle-grade novel I wrote, Cop & Robber, will be published in July 2022 by Penguin Random House Australia. This year, it’s Dani,…