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.
“I am a writer.”
In America, where so often our job defines who we are, these four little words can throw a wrench into the gears of polite conversation.
It’s almost time for that annual, month-long festival for writers, NaNoWriMo. Are you going to subject yourself to the excitement and stress of writing a book at least 50,000 words long in a single month?
If you’re participating in NaNoWriMo this year, you may feel a bit nervous about whether you’re going to be able to finish. Honestly, you should be nervous.
Here’s the truth: almost ninety percent of people who start NaNoWriMo don’t finish.
How do you make sure that you don’t fail?
The first time I wrote a short story (that others would read), I spent a lot of time describing the character’s clothes. This choice received a lot of criticism. It made my character seem shallow. It made the woman seem cliché.
My critics were probably right that I overdid it at the time, but I stand by my response, which was this…
There is one question every writer has to answer. Yes, only one. It doesn’t matter if you are writing memoir, fiction, non-fiction, or a screenplay, you have to answer this question.
