1 Day & 6 Hours Til NaNoWriMo

I haven't updated in a few days because nothing much has been going on my way. I still have 3 plots to work on of the 4 stories I plan to write next month. I do hope to finish 2 of those tonight, we shall see how that goes.

NANOWRIMO GOALS 

My NaNo goals have changed and instead of writing 200K between 2 stories I plan to write 250K between 4. That comes down to a minimum daily goal of 8,400. I've got my fingers crossed that all goes well. :)

Also those 4 stories are ; Her Secret Power, The Witch's Destiny, Water Earth Air, and Three's A Crowd.  If you want to know more about those stories I have the info posted under the WIP tab.

Elle

5 Days Til NaNoWriMo

As of right now I still have 4 novels to plot out before November first (which is 5 days and 4 hours away). This is my plan for the next few days.

10/27 - finish plotting Her Secret Power
10/28 - finish plotting The Witch
10/29 - finish plotting Water, Earth, Air
10/30 - finish plotting 3's A Crowd

From today until the end of November I will be posting here once a day on my progress. My spidey senses are telling me I'm at the beginning of a cold (maybe flu). I really hope I'm wrong about that. Either way I've got a lot to get done before 11/01 and much to look forward to. :)

Elle

NaNoWriMo Tips

I learned _a lot_ about what it takes to make your goals based on my experience with NaNoWriMo last year. I'm posting this as a reminder to myself and for anyone else who wants/needs the advice. Here goes;

1) Motivation is Key! - NaNoWriMo is very exciting. Use that excitement to help motivate you through your word count and beyond. So the first day (especially) but even the first week try to write as much as you can instead of just writing the minimum. This will help to get you ahead and then it will be easier to pace yourself. My advice would be to set a goal of what number you want to reach for each day of your first week and then follow it.

2) Don't Get Behind! - As simple as this sounds you may not realize until your behind how much more stressful it can be. You don't want to play catch up through November. So know your minimum word count and always try to hit at least that every day.

3) Be Prepared! - One of the things that severely hindered me from hitting my word count goal of 200K last year was that my manuscript wasn't ready to be written. I knew so much of it already but I didn't know all I needed to know. I ended up having to write everything one scene at a time and then trying to figure out what the next scene was before I could go write the next scene. This took up a lot of valuable time I could have spent upping my word count. This year I'm working on completing my outline _before_ November 1st.

4) Get Involved! - There are so many people on the NaNo forums and even on Twitter who would love to get to know other WriMo's and will do word wars with you or just generally be of help to you if you just ask. Last year I had someone PM me and ask If I needed a "kick in the behind buddy" (LOL!) and she was there to give me that push when my numbers weren't as high as I wanted them to be. From my experience most WriMo's are very nice and getting involved and speaking with other WriMo's could be just the thing you need on the days your not motivated.

Here's a bonus for motivation, did you know that if you start NaNoWriMo you are 32 % more likely to win/finish NaNoWriMo? And of course the more words you finish the more your likely (statistically speaking) to finish. There's more on that in the chart below. I used this chart last year to help motivate me to finish NaNoWriMo. Enjoy! :)

Anyone else here have any other tips? Feel free to post them in the comments. I'd love to hear from you!

Elle

Find me in the NaNoWriMo Forums @ Typing Rhino

NaNoWriMo Goals

Beyond trying to finish a book I have a lot of goals for myself this NaNo.

Last year, my frist Nano, I set out to write 200K words. In the end I only ended up with 65K words but I was just looking over my charts from last year and I barely wrote for half of the days of November 2012. That is very encouraging for me because if I write everyday that's surely to bring my numbers way up. That being said I want to conquer that goal this year. Come December 1st, 2013 I want to say that I actually did it!

My NaNo 2013 Goals are as follows;
- Be prepared for NaNo ie have all outlines finished
- write 200K words, split between 2 novels of 100K each
- beat my Most Ever Written In A Day Record of 9K
&
- write every day of November no matter what (even if it's only 100 words)

I think that's enough for this year. :) What are your NaNoWriMo goals?

Elle

Find me on the NaNoWriMo forums @ Typing Rhino

NaNoWriMo Prep

I'm currently working on 5 stories (of the 100's of story ideas I have). What I like to do is work with them on my computer and whatever I print out gets put into it's own individual folder with it's working title on the front. 

Of these 5 I've picked 2 to work on next month; The Big Rewrite AKA Her Secret Power and The Witch. I've got 14 days and some odd hours to finish the outlines so that I'm ready to start writing them on the first. I've already started both outlines so I shouldn't have much more to finish before I'm ready but with outlines you never really know until your done. I'm working off a checklist for everything I want finished (outlines, character sketches, etc.) so that helps.

Elle

Find me on the NaNoWriMo Forums @ Typing Rhino

*waves Hello

Let's start this again shall we?

For those of you who have been with me from the beginning *curtsy's thank you. For those who haven't here's a little about myself and this blog.

I first started this blog 6 months ago to track my MilWordy progress. It was tough and it ended with me not feeling it was the right thing for me. Since then I've started and restarted this blog several times. Looking back I realize I was discovering myself in the blog sphere and I feel comfortable saying I finally found it. :)

This blog isn't only about the specifics of writing but more about the writing lifestyle for me. It's about what I'm writing and my failures and successes while I attempt to become a published author. This blog is about my love of reading and how my life is somewhat tailored to my reading habits.

As we draw into a close on November you'll see a lot of NaNoWriMo related posts from me. Also I would love to hear from you and what your writing or reading at the moment.

Thank you for embarking on this journey with me!

Elle