I’m going to be brave: sharing my NaNoWriMo W.I.P.

I love NaNoWrimo. I love the concept, the challenge, the comradery, all of it. This year will be my fourth, and if I’m lucky my third win. Each year I try to find a reason to keep myself motivated, to finish the piece that I started, or at least get to the fifty-thousand word mark. November is also almost always a hectic time of year for me. With all our family living away from us I usually need to have all my Christmas preparations finished by the end of November, normally the time we travel, or in this case have visitors. I have a toddler, which limits writing time and energy. It gets hard.

So this year to motivate myself to finish I will be releasing the Work in progress on Smashwords. They’re offering us NaNo peeps a chance to “publish” the work, publicly showing how far we’ve come as well as sharing what we have on the go.

Yes, there are many places one could put up their story, Wattpad for example, but since I’m already on Smashwords at least once a day to check things out I figured this is the best place to maybe gain some readership and have other people see my word count.

I’m quite excited for this, but also nervous. I hope my plan doesn’t back fire in anyway.

How about you? Would you share a work in progress with the world, NaNoWriMo or not?