The Austin Creativity Coach’s Guide to Winning NaNoWriMo
So you’ve always wanted to write a novel. Why not take this idea for a test drive during National Novel Writing Month and join 300K+ aspiring novelist in the insanely fun annual write-a-thon challenge “NaNoWriMo”. The challenge is to write 50,000 words in 30 days and starts on November 01 at 12:01 am, smack in the middle of winter festivities. NaNoWriMo founder, Chris Baty thought — if there is no perfect time to start a new project—why not chose the most imperfect time? NaNoWriMo is fun, challenging, exhausting, and rewarding. Try it. I’ve taken part and won from 2009 to 2017 in between working full time and raising three kids children. If I can do it, so can you. Deciding What to Write. Aspiring writers use NaNoWriMo to start their first manuscript draft or to work on their fifteenth draft. There are no set rules just a loose framework to challenge you to write almost every…
