1.
Soundtracks are cool, but don't
waste all your time on them
2. Use every second you have free
to write something for you Nano Novel, because at the end of the day, when you
sit down at your desk and realize that you haven’t written anything big, you’ll
go back and look at all those snippets and put them all together. Who knew? You
actually wrote a Chapter! And the best writing comes from the spur of the time.
3.
Describe everything- who cares
if it's useless to the storyline, it's words.
4. Word War. Just do it. There are
so many forums with people word Warring all daylong. Catch one and make more
friends…oh and write your novel.
5.
Don't delete anything no matter
how bad you think it is, just ignore it.
6. Understand that what you
writing maybe totally insane and may never get out into the publishing
industry. Just live in the moment. Live with your characters because I bet that
if it weren’t for Nano, you would be writing a paragraph every week. And the
best surprise is that you’re able to remember everything that happened so far
in the story because you’re writing every day.
7.
When in doubt, steal some
dialogue from randoms on the street.
8. No matter how many outlines,
day dreams you derive from your wildest fantasies and sneaky conversation
listening you do, your story may never come out on paper the same it would in
your head. So relax, bite your
tongue and keep on writing. You can fix that later. After the month ends.
9.
Don't try and keep your plot
the way you imagined it before NaNo started, everything will change.
1. Push aside your inner editor
and just rape the keyboard with words that make no sense. It’s National Novel
Writing month. It’s not National Novel Editing Month. Yes Grammar Nazi’s *Cough
Ely cough*, stay back.
And of
course, it’s okay to get this from word:
