NaNoWriMo is just around the corner. 64 days to be exact. If you don’t know what NaNoWriMo is let me explain. NaNoWriMo stands for National Novel Writing Month and the objective is to write 50,000 words in 30 days. That works out to be 1,666.67 words a day. Quite a challenge, but it is achievable. I know because I finally did it last year (2012) after failing the two years before. What makes it interesting is that Thanksgiving is in the month of November, so you have to work around that. Last year my wife and I went for a week to Minnesota to visit my daughter and her family during NaNoWriMo. I lost some serious writing time. My daughter, who got me into this, was taking the challenge also and we stayed up a couple nights working on our novels.
If you are up for the challenge Google NaNoWriMo and sign up. I have one tip to pass on and that is…don’t give up. Carve out a writing time and turn off anything that will distract you especially people.
Just WRITE, WRITE, WRITE. Good Luck. I’ll see you on the other side.
