10KByLaborDay
On Twitter an author I know Jodi Meadows was talking about a small challenge for writers. It's called
#10kByLaborDay
Basically you have to get that many words down by Labor Day.
Use the hashtag on twitter
#10KByLaborDay
NaNoWriMo Tip Two: Don't Look Back
So today's tip is based from a writer who can write novels. He is considered legendary in the world of publishing, and writing, and his advice is not to be taken lightly. Today's advice is from Stephen King, and in his published work A Memoir of the Craft. His advice from the book applies when a writer is writing their novel during NaNoWriMo: DON'T LOOK BACK Yes folks, that is key when you are writing a novel in one month. Don't go back to the beginning Just keep writing and writing until you feel you have finished the story. Now you don't have a completed novel, you have a finished draft. Don't look back at the story. This is the reason as to why you shouldn't look back at the draft. If you keep going back to the beginning, you end up editing. Before you know it, you end up changing every single sentence in the story, and you will will not hit the finish line. I normally have the habit of editing as I go, but during NaNoWriMo I have to break that habit. Yo...
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