For a number of students, November was spent crafting a novel.

In its eighth year, National Novel Writing Month had writers from across the nation writing their own novels of 50,000 words spanning any genre of literature, said Cheyenne Morgan, a graduate student in geology and environmental geosciences and participant in the event.

The event is open to anyone over the age of 13, said Kathy Kitts, assistant professor of geology, participant and municipal liaison for the event.

Municipal liaisons are local volunteers who help organize groups in their hometowns and answer inquiries about the event.

There are no official prizes for those who finish besides personal glory, Kitts said. She added that a donation of $75 from both of the municipal liaisons is the prize for the local members, with certificates also being presented.

Morgan hopes to feel the accomplishment of finishing a novel.

“Every line brings me one step closer to being done and the best part is that because it isn’t supposed to be a masterpiece but an exercise to make my imagination a little more supple,” Morgan said. “The greatest prize would be knowing that I’ve written something that is 175 pages long and it made sense.”

Morgan hopes writing a novel will be beneficial and will help break writer’s block.

“This being my first year doing [the event] has been great because now I am writing just to be writing which is borderline insane to me, but it’s been a lot of fun,” Morgan said. “It’s strictly quantitative and not qualitative.”