Are you #NaNoWriMo – ing? #Writing
I’m all about #writing – and I have zesty passion to pass around to get more words in.
“Never miss more than a day of writing” – once said to me, and I stick to it like bums on seats. However, some because of life and many zillions of other things can struggle to keep committed. Heck – there’s nothing wrong with the stop start method of writing, except that it might impact on your drive to reach the blinking end!
If you are one of those – there is help. It’s called … National Novel Writing Month – #NaNoWriMo (although it’s more like International NoWriMo now).
It is simple. You can create an account at http://nanowrimo.org or not – because it won’t slice off your fingertips either way. The mission is to write 50,000 words in November. Divided up that’s 1612 and part of a word per day.
How you do it is your plan of action. You don’t have to just aim for 50k – go higher if you can, and if you do miss out on the 50k by the end of November, then look back and be proud of the words you did put down. It all counts in the end. NaNoWriMo doesn’t have to be about a new first draft. It can be a redraft, an edit, a tweak of an edit. Finetuning words and pages are as good as writing for me. Do it. Do it. Do!
Methods (or pick your own):
1612 words every day
806 words in the morning, and 806 words in the evening
1000 words per weekday and then 3750 words per day (per weekend)
I’ll aim for 2k per day for Novel 11 – because during Nov I’ll hit a 8 day period of tweaking Novel 10 for agent submissions).
Don’t try to be perfect. Get those words down. Think more when you redraft. JUST WRITE!
