How to do NaNoWriMo by Dreamer7787

"Did I really just do that??"

How I did it: NaNoWriMo was my first venture back into writing after falling out of love with it. Majoring in something that you love can be a good way to kill that passion...

I said that I was going to wait another year to attempt. I'm in my last semester of grad school and I kept saying I just didn't have enough time. I ended up opening up my box of writing and being bitten by the writing bug three days before Nano was set to start and the rest is history.

I already had a story slightly in the works, but rewrote pretty much all of the beginning as I went. I chose this one to work on out of all my unfinished products because my BFF S had read the first chapter of it and wanted to know what happen. Sadly, I still have not managed to finish this story, so she'll have to wait a bit longer. Even though I've met the Nano words, I hope to keep working on it on a daily basis until I finish it. 

My biggest battle was writing and not going back to edit things. I know that there a few holes in my plot and characters, but I simply made notes of the issues and I will go back and fix them later. My inner editor can be quite noisy.

Lessons & tips:

  •  Don't go back an edit. That's what the months after November are for. Sure some parts are going to be utter crap, but that's ok! You aren't going to create a masterpiece in one month. That's not what Nano is about.

Resources:

  • The people on 43T. Seriously the cheers and the encouragement were extremely helpful! Thank you all so much!! :)


1 person found this helpful
 

Nov 29, 2010, 01:35PM PST | 3 comments | 14 cheers


Comments:

borderchick406 life is a series of moments strung together by our decisions

Congrats!

I wish I had the skills to be able to do something like this, I’m always so jealous of those that are good creative writers! I’m curious too, about how many pages is 50,000 words? And good luck with finishing the story!! :-)

Nov 29, 2010, 02:05PM PST | Thread | Respond to this

Dreamer7787 Keep your head up, don't give up today.

Thanks!

Single spaced with 12 pt Cambria font, brings it to 90 pages in Word. :)

Nov 29, 2010, 02:11PM PST | Respond to this

Sherecita "Be yourself, everyone else is taken" O.W

Congratulations!

I just finished mine! Made it all the way to 50592 words! Feels amazing, doesn’t it!

Nov 29, 2010, 02:42PM PST | Respond to this 1 cheer


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