I can hardly believe that in one month, National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) will be here again! Although I’ve attempted NaNo three times, I actually finished my NaNo novel for the first time last year, at a whopping 65,000 words. It’s my favorite of my novels to date. Unfortunately, it’s not revised yet, but with a little work I think it will definitely be publishable.
I just started prepping for this year’s NaNo through an activity at Writing.com. I wouldn’t have been able to do it last year without the prep. It really helps to go into November knowing the storyline and having a feel for who your characters are. In the end, you manuscript will probably need less revision, too. This year’s prep is acting as a way to slowly introduce me back into writing. Since I’ve started grad school and re-joined AmeriCorps, may days are pretty much non-stop, and October is especially crazy.
How will I do it? I don’t know yet. But with the magic of NaNo, I will.
You can do it! I really like the october prep challenge on WDC. It helped me the one year I won during nanowrimo, for sure.