3 Tips For Making Writing More Fun

Every year, we’re lucky to have great sponsors for our nonprofit events. 4theWords, a 2021 Camp NaNoWriMo sponsor, is a writing app that uses monsters, quests, global challenges, and epic rewards to motivate your writing. Today, they’re here to share some ways that gamefying your writing can help you reach your goals:

Writing can be both rewarding and challenging. Most of the time, writing is an expression of creativity that makes us feel alive. At other times, getting words down feels like climbing a mountain. On those days, you might try almost anything to write. So we’ve come up with a few tips to help you make writing more fun.

At 4thewords we’re all about making writing more fun. Our online writing game helps you write more using gamification principles like monsters, leveling up, item rewards, quests, and a fully immersive world to explore. We want to make writing easy, fun, and rewarding for our community—all while helping you achieve your word count goals and get into a writing habit.

1. Break Down Your Goals

With writing, you might get overwhelmed by the big picture. How are you supposed to write an entire book? The same way you eat an elephant—one bite at a time. Instead of focusing on and fretting over the idea of writing an entire book, just focus on meeting a daily word count. By breaking your goals down into more manageable chunks, it’ll be easier for you to achieve them. You can break your goal into incremental steps and use something like sticky notes to see how far you’ve come. If you set one sticky note to equal your daily word count, it won’t be long before you cover your wall in a sea of sticky notes. At 4thewords we make it easy to track your writing progress and help motivate you with streaks, we have streak wings you can equip on your Avatar for keeping a writing streak (fun fact: our longest streak is over 5 years and running!)

2. Reward Your Progress

Along with breaking bigger goals into small parts, reward yourself whenever you reach those goals. As far as rewards go, think simple—even the promise of your favorite treat or purchasing a book you’ve had your eye on can work. Rewards are an important part of our strategy at 4thewords so if you want help finding some rewards dressing up your avatar and decorating your house with writing rewards might do the trick. By defeating monsters, you get rewarded with loot and can not only complete quests but also purchase special wardrobe items to accessorize your avatar. 4thewords offers limited-time special events with special rewards, so keep an eye out for those as well.

3. Get Creative

Don’t be afraid to get creative with your writing goals! Instead of telling yourself, “I have to write 500 words today,” say, “I must defeat the Poison Dragon today!” Or “I must write 500 words to save my city!” Writing in 4thewords gives you the opportunity to personify your goals and visualize them as monsters for you to slay. We turn the creative process into an adventure that keeps you focused and engaged. If you’re struggling with a challenging scene, figure out how many words you need to write that scene, equate them to a monster, and fight (we have over 400 unique monsters and our world grows larger every month)!

No matter how you choose to make your writing fun, 4thewords is here to help you reach your writing goals. Give us a shot with a 30-day free trial and discover the most entertaining way to make daily writing a habit and finish writing your novel.

Best of luck slaying your poison dragons and best of luck this Camp with your words, Wrimos—we hope you have a fantastic camp! 

PS: If you use the special code “wrimocamp” when signing up or on your Account Page, you’ll get an extra free month of subscription time!