Writing Through the Holidays

On Sunday, the annual NANO challenge begins. 50,000 words in one month. Or, broken down, 1,666 words per day for 30 days.

I don’t know about you, but 1,666 seems a heck of a lot more do-able than 50,000. That’s 5-7 pages depending on font, font size and how much dialogue you’ve got in a scene. That’s a do-able level of work in a day.

And it’s the key to ensuring two particularly important things: That writing becomes a habit and that writing a novel is a surmountable exercise.

Writing throug...