Lessons from NaNoWriMo

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. I know my pace. I’ve sat down to write other articles, shorter articles that require less outlining and less structure. 1,500 words will take me two or three days. I need to stop and think, perhaps pause and walk around, switch to some other project. NaNoWriMo expects a month-long, explosive spurt of 1,667 words per day. But I like to write, then remember what I wrote and think about it.It’s all right to me that NaNoWriMo and the goals it encourages seem to be for someone else. Dotting every “i” and crossing every “t” of NaNoWriMo doesn’t need to be my objective. But it’

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s nice to have one month a year, or a few months with Camp NaNoWriMo during the spring and summer, where many people are sitting down together all over the world and resolving to write. It’s also nice to read the discussions of their personal styles. They just need to remember what kind of writers they are and write in the ways that get them to reach their goals.If you participated in NaNoWriMo or otherwise tried to write a novel, what kind of writer are you? I’m hoping to have a discussion in the comments.This article took me two days.</article></body>

Lessons from NaNoWriMo

I’m in my third year of NaNoWriMo, nearing the end. I’ve never won, completing 50,000 words on the same novel in a month. And I don’t expect to.

I’m not that kind of writer. I know my pace. I’ve sat down to write other articles, shorter articles that require less outlining and less structure. 1,500 words will take me two or three days. I need to stop and think, perhaps pause and walk around, switch to some other project. NaNoWriMo expects a month-long, explosive spurt of 1,667 words per day. But I like to write, then remember what I wrote and think about it.

It’s all right to me that NaNoWriMo and the goals it encourages seem to be for someone else. Dotting every “i” and crossing every “t” of NaNoWriMo doesn’t need to be my objective. But it’s nice to have one month a year, or a few months with Camp NaNoWriMo during the spring and summer, where many people are sitting down together all over the world and resolving to write. It’s also nice to read the discussions of their personal styles. They just need to remember what kind of writers they are and write in the ways that get them to reach their goals.

If you participated in NaNoWriMo or otherwise tried to write a novel, what kind of writer are you? I’m hoping to have a discussion in the comments.

This article took me two days.