NaNoWriMo is upon us again! I’m sure some of you are jumping out of your desk chair with excitement, but others are still nervous. It is intimidating, after all. 50,000 words in one month? Insanity.
Luckily, it’s not as hard as it looks. And with these five tips, it’ll look even easier.
When writing first drafts, a common piece of advice is write fast—just get those ideas on the page so you can take a proper look at them before you start letting your editor start messing with them… Write fast, analyze later. NaNoWriMo is great for creating a structure to force this practice.
There’s some great reasoning behind this practice… but fast firsts aren’t for everyone.
Are you participating in NaNoWriMo? Are you thinking about participating in it? Do you know what NaNoWriMo even is?
Here are 12 reasons you should (or should NOT) participate in National Novel Writing Month…
A lot of writers and writing blogs on the internet are revving up their engines for NaNoWriMo, which starts on Saturday. I’m not one of those masses, mostly because my love is the editing process moreso than the actual story creation and writing process. As much as I champion the benefits of an editorial eye, I believe that the editorial process should be scrapped during NaNoWriMo in favor of making December NaNoEdMo (even though NaNoEdMo is actually in March).
There’s no doubt that NaNoWriMo rocks. Just thirty days of work in trade for a complete first draft? Awesome.
But that doesn’t mean NaNoWriMo is for everyone. To succeed requires the perfect storm of story, determination, temperament, and an open schedule. Cranking out 1,666 words a day (yes, I did the math) is not for everyone.
It’s almost time for NaNoWriMo. Many affectionately call it “NaNo,” for short. “Nano” is also short for “mind-numbingly short” as in nanosecond, and “really, really, ridiculously small,” as in nanoparticles.
In the spirit of all things nano, I’ve got a challenge for you. It’s the Non-NaNoWriMo Writing Challenge (try typing that ten times at top speed…).
Write for one hour, uninterrupted.
