Juniors Ellen Do and Dania Khurshid team up to take on National Novel Writing Month Photo Caption: Staring at their computer screen, juniors Ellen Do and Dania Khurshid brainstorm for their novel. The girls are participating in National Novel Writing Month, a program in which aspiring authors attempt to write 50,000 words in November. Do and Khurshid hope that, together, they can meet this goal. Photo Illustration by Amrutha Dorai.