Congrats! You’ve taken the plunge, publicly made the commitment, and you now can’t escape doing National Novel Writing Month for the first time ever.
Like many before you, you will struggle through NaNoWriMo in a tornado of confusion, despair, and self-loathing. You will read, loads, for ‘research’. You will realise you are the worst writer that’s ever written. And then realise that actually, you’re the best.
You will wonder if you can get away with giving up, never mentioning it again, and hoping that no one will remember you bragging about it for the first week of November.
You will also turn to Google, and you will search these things.
1. What are the rules of National Novel Writing Month?*
* For the seventeenth time, just to check.
You have to write 50,000 words in the month of November, which works out to around 1,667 words per day. It has to be… Read the full story