NaNoWriMo 2019: Favorite Reference Desk Topics So Far

I'm at it again: this is my ninth year participating in the National Novel Writing Month challenge. I'm doing it rebel-style this year; rather than writing 50,000 words toward a new novel, I aim to clock at least 30 editing hours on my work in progress.

And, like every year, I allow myself some time to wander in the ever-marvelous Reference Desk area of the forums. This is where NaNo writers come to ask the specific and often peculiar questions that arise while they're writing their novel.

Here are my favorite topics so far this year:

• What’s a goat’s equivalent of a post-coital cigarette?
• What’s a chronic illness that could affect (and possibly kill) a Victorian-era child?
• If You Are Including Livestock, Consider This
• What’s the strangest thing you’ve ever seen?
• Please tell me about Alabama! Or Tennessee! OR VIRGINIA!
• It’s 1776 and He’s Having an Anaphlaxic Reaction to a Radish

I love human creativity. I love NaNoWriMo.

Now, back to it.

(Previous year posts about Reference Desk topics: 2014 and 2010.)