Nanowrimo cheat sheet

Here’s your cheat sheet for Nanowrimo. Or for just writing a book or script!

Theoretically, you could schedule your four weeks of Nanowrimo by dedicating one week to each quarter of your story: Act I, Act II: Part 1, Act II: Part 2, and Act III.

Realistically, I think you should be thrilled if you get even halfway through a first draft in a month. That’s huge! Anything you do in just one month is almost inevitably more like an expanded outline (what the film business calls a treatment) than what...