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NanoWrimo
This year, as with pretty much every year since 1999, thousands of writers around the world will take on the challenge to write 50000 words in November. I defy anyone that writes, to not know this.
SET UP TO FAIL
The thing is that Nano can set you up to fail if you don’t approach it right.
I’ll be honest, I have failed at Nano more times than I have succeeded-
DOING THINGS DIFFERENTLY
So, this year, I’m doing things differently.
I’m not aiming to write a fully functioning first draft of a novel in thirty days. Hell, it takes Stephen King three months to write a novel, and he is a writing genius, and prolific, to boot!
MY PLANS
Instead, I plan to continue working on my two projects, and to stick to my daily writing habit.
This will not make a finished novel- not even close. I will persevere with writing but I don’t expect my project s to be complete until the end of December.
THE PROBLEM WITH NANO
That’s the problem with Nano- it leads people (myself included) to believe that a novel finishes at 50000 words, when that simply isn’t the case.
