Getting Into NaNoWriMo

Novel Writing Tips to Power Your Work

Getting Into NaNoWritMo with Novel Writing Knowledge to Power Your Work. Photo Credit: Photo by Startup Stock Photos from Pexels.

Ah, NaNoWriMo is here again! If you’re unfamiliar with the term, it’s not some alien language, say the response to Mork from Ork’s “Na-nu Na-nu.” Nope, it’s National Novel Writing Month — has its own Website and Everything (https://NaNoWriMo.org/). The idea is to write a novel — 50,000 words, in this case — in the span of a month’s time.

If you know what NaNoWriMo is and are taking the plunge, Congratulations! Here are some things that could help in your endeavors — Something that might Surprise you — A word about planning. Or not — And a useful tip you can use right now to speed up your writing.

This Is A LOT of Writing!

You can know this as a concept — sure, a novel has a lot of words in it, gotta be a lot of writing, right? But one of the best thing NaNoWriMo does is give you an idea of the scale and the scope of that amount of wordsmithing. If you’ve never tried writing a novel before, prepare yourself — this is going to be more writing than you have ever done. Simple, physical, banging on the keyboard (or text-to-speech or whatever your method) for hours upon hours on end.

Get ready for that. When you’re not writing? You’ll be writing.