National Novel Writing Month Looms
For you, I should say. Or, more specifically, fellow scribe
Roger Eschbacher, who's giving it another go.
NaNoWritMo's goal is simple: write a 50k word novel in the month of November. That's about 1,667 words or 7 pages a day, a daunting amount. You could win neat widgets for your website. More importantly, you'll join writers across the world as you stand on the threshold of Christmas with a completed first draft to clean up.
Sure You Want to Write a Novel in 30 Days?
Well, you know your heart. So here, in no particular order, is an information trove pointing you in the write direction. (Bohohoho, you see, of course, the cleverness of my little pun.)
1. From last year over at Writer's Digest, behold
30 big NaNoWriMo pointers.
2. Not to be outdone this year,
reedsy offers 38 tips.
3. Penguin Random House presents
insights from their authors.
4. From the NaNoWriMo blog itself, here are t
hree procrastination busters.
5. Writers in the Storm
offers ten insights that might speed you on your way.
6. Tea with Tumnus has a few
first-timer thoughts on the process.
7. If you're in a hurry, The Lexicon Writing Blog has
three quick tips.
8. The Book Editor Show
unveils six more nifty tips.
9.
Eight additional tips pour in from Mother Nature Network.
10. Creative Indi also shows a fondness for
tips numbering eight.
Here are several NaNoWriMo c
ool links and tools from BoHo Berry.
So there you have it. Plenty of info to plow through. Go, do, write your fingers into nubbins, fit for nothing but a keyboard and amusing children. Now is your time!