Tag: NaNoWriMo
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A Gift for NaNoWriMo
Here we go! Do you have your October Prep done? You’ve got 2 more days to finish your characters, synopsis, outline, and first and last scenes. You got this! If you haven’t already, decide what you’re going to use to write. Notebook. Word. Google Docs. Scrivener. Chisel and stone tablets. I use Scrivener and I…
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Get Your NaNo Groove Back
Never try to do NaNoWriMo and plan a curling bonspiel for kids at the same time. I’ve dropped out of trying to hit my goal of 50K words in 30 days, which is a weird goal anyway when you’re in rewriting mode. You add 1000 words and then delete 1000 words all on the same…
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October is NaNoWriMo Prep-Month!
So. You want to write a novel this November. Awesome! Amazing! Do it! A mystery novel needs to be around 75K – 90K words. (Other genres have different word count ranges.) Agents are pretty specific about word counts and I’ve known some agents who have rejected a book without reading it because it was below…
Mindy Carlson 