November is now less than a month away. Without further adieu, I am offering my six point survival guide to the month of madness that is NaNoWriMo.
Prepare:
As I write this blog on the morning of October 5th there is
In my last blog, I outlined some of the benefits of participating in the NaNoWriMo challenge. There are, however, obvious cautions to jumping into the challenge with both feet.
Without further adieu, here are things to consider before putting your eggs in the NaNoWriMo basket.
The Best Laid Plans:
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Take an objective look at the NaNoWriMo writing challenge and a few obvious issues immediately become apparent.
There is no sure fire process to finishing a book. Completion is still a matter of putting pen to paper. Sitting down to create 55,000 to 75,000 words of original fiction is always
If the novel writing calendar has a New Year’s Day, it falls on the first of November rather than January. For those just getting into fiction, November is officially “National Novel Writing Month”. Better known to the old hacks as NaNoWriMo, the goal of this ambitious project is as …
The bump in energy from attending a writers conference can carry you quite a long way. For a few weeks after getting home, I tend to write and connect with a renewed sense of purpose. Attending a writer’s conference is important.
I hate to break it to you though. That