Watch the video from our Facebook Live Episode 14: Should You NaNoWriMo?
National Novel Writing Month is just around the corner and
I’m actually contemplating participating this year. I’ve never successfully
completed a NaNoWriMo, but it looks like this year will be different—I am
determined for it to be so, at least!
My plan for NaNo this year is to write at least one short
story a day for a book of vignettes I've been planning for a while. How I plan to do this is fairly simple-
Get up by 5am every day (should be easy if I am in bed by
9pm!). Do my morning ritual of pet care and coffee making.
Do my morning pages for 15-20 minutes.
Write for 1 hour.
Get ready for work.
At work, on any downtime I may have, write a few lines,
especially at lunch.
When the ideas are there, I tend to write pretty quickly.
The key to making this happen, though, is to plan way ahead so that all I have
to do is sit down and work on the story. This means outlining. I’ve already
made a list of short story topics I want to explore and I’ve been adding. I’d
love to be able to be a Pantser, but unfortunately I have a problem with concentration.
This means that I must outline so I can quickly figure out where to pick up
from where I left off.
Recently I did a Facebook Live video (linked above, but also posted to the RachelPilcher Writing Workshops YouTube channel- which I'd love for you to subscribe to!) about participating in NaNoWriMo.
Check it out and let’s cheer each other on!