What’s Going On With The NaNopocalyse? What is NaNoWriMo? NaNoWriMo is a yearly event where aspiring writers challenge themselves to write 50,000 words of a novel during the month of November. The challenge was created in 1999. What is the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Wooooooooo!!! Let’s GOOOOOOOO. 🎉🎉🎉🎉
❣️ The fiction you write is valuable and important. ❣️ No one else can write the story you came up with the same way that you would. ❣️ No story idea is totally original, it’s okay to tell a story[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
💖 Writing requires rest. 💖 You cannot be actively writing all the time. 💖 Do not feel bad about needing to take time from your writing to rest. 💖 Rest is an important part of the creative process. 💖 Rest[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
ooh! We have this all the time, luckily for fanfic specifically there is a great solution. You take the one scene, or couple of scenes, in your idea that’s the most intense and interesting, and you make a one shot[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
it looks like if I manage to keep up the pace i’ve set I’ll hit around ~80k but the end of the month. and then I’m expecting another 20-30k after that to finish the novel completely. so I’ll probably finish[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
❣️ Don’t be afraid of being earnest in your writing. ❣️ Don’t be afraid of putting your desires and fears in your story. ❣️ Don’t be afraid of writing the story that you want to read. ❣️ Don’t be afraid[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Gonna try to get another 3k written on the novel today, even though I’ve got a late start.
⭐ There’s no such thing as failure when you’re writing as long as you’re actually getting words on the page. ⭐ Writing that has to be edited or deleted later still gives you practice and makes you a better writer.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
its the nanowrimo official website!
The sign on the platform said Scarford, and it seemed we were only a little south of Leeds. It was the furthest north I had been, and the fresh air, like the day before, seemed to scour my lungs of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
🤯 Don’t write stories that you think are boring. 🤯 Leave boring parts out of the story you’re writing. 🤯 If you think the ‘boring parts’ absolutely must be there, then find a way to make them as short and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
✏️ Sit down, put the words on the page. ✏️ Sit down, put the words on the page. ✏️ They don’t have to be good words. ✏️ They don’t have to be many words. ✏️ They don’t have to be[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
NaNo progress: 3,480 words today, done in 5 group sprints of 15 minutes each, between 9am and 10:45 excerpt: He stood, and his slender form suddenly loomed over me. He waved a gracious hand again. “It was ruined before you[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
3,100 words between 9am and 11:20am today for NaNo! excerpt: “Sir, pardon the intrusion– are you injured?” “And what business of it is yours if I am?” he growled with stern suspicion. A cloaked man hidden in an alleyway after[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
nano day 1: 2,800 words. Wrote from 9am-Noon. Not a bad start to the project! The opening is definitely weak and will either need to be heavily re-written or preceded by a more punchy prologue. But that’s a draft 2[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Your first draft is like the “alpha” version of a video game. ⭐ It doesn’t have to be perfect– it doesn’t have to be good. ⭐ It’s not a finished product– no one is going to be judging your finished[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Happy ‘All NaNo’s Eve’!
jdsaljdsaldjlas I’m so tense for NaNo this year. I am armed with an outline, and a vision, faced against the horrors of the blank page.
⭐ Challenge yourself: to write what you want to write, rather than what you think other people want to read. ⭐ Challenge yourself: to write at a pace that works for you, rather than one that will burn you out.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
“I like to write about it in fiction” does not mean “I desire it to happen in real life”, and never has. What you want to write about doesn’t necessarily mean anything about you, besides that you want to write[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
👉 Sometimes, what one audience interprets as horror, another audience interprets as romance. 👉 Sometimes, what one audience interprets as romance, another audience interprets as horror. 👉 As an writer, you have to accept that every audience brings their own[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It stands for National Novel Writing Month and it’s a challenge where you write a novel in november 😀
Things that don’t matter when you’re writing a story: what will critics and detractors say about this? is this as marketable as I can possibly make this? Things that do matter when you’re writing a story: is this story meaningful[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Same, I have never made it to 50k but I am hoping to this time. This is the first time I am approaching with a solid outline, so maybe! 🤞
working on nano prep today.
Important NaNoWriMo reminders: ✍️ Avoiding burnout is your most important goal as a writer. ✍️ Taking care of yourself is more important than meeting arbitrary word counts and deadlines. ✍️ Every time you take care of your mental and physical[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Get ready for an obnoxious number of OC ask memes as I develop my protagonist for my NaNo novel.
guess who did the first-draft outline of his nanowrimo novel today? >:D –😼🔪
With NaNo approaching please remember: 💌 It’s okay to work hard to meet a wordcount. 💌 but it’s also okay to write at your own pace. 💌 Being able to write a lot in a short amount of time is[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…