It’s NaNoWriMo!

With the days that get dark before dinner and the passing weekend of debauchery, NaNoWriMo, or National Novel Writing Month, is finally upon us. As you nurse your hangovers or snack away at your candy, hopefully you are typing away at your computer, crafting your next masterwork.

50,000 words in a single month can seem like a lot though, and it’s very beneficial to use some tricks to keep you motivated.

With a quick calculation, you can find out that this means a paltry 1667 words per day for the entire month, a completely feasible goal. However this is misleading. There are going to be weekends where you never open your laptop, days when you’re too sick or too tired to think about your story, or even days that are riddled with writer’s block. This is to be expected.

That’s why we suggest you instead aim for 2,500 - 5,000 words a day. Sure you probably won’t hit that 5,000 mark every single day, but attempting to will really give your word count a boost.

Throughout the next month, a majority of our posts will be related in some way or another to NaNoWriMo, so if you haven’t checked it out yet, what are you waiting for?