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s Learned from National Novel Writing Month</h2> <div><h3>Prepare, plan ahead, go easy on the edits</h3></div> <div><p>medium.com</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/1*AdHd_yqGw5bqoq8w3q6DtA.jpeg)"></div> </div> </div> </a> </div><p id="e22a">And then I found Chad Grills who approaches the challenge in a different manner.</p><div id="507a" class="link-block"> <a href="https://readmedium.com/the-ultimate-storytelling-framework-for-nanowrimo-71e2f5a86f20"> <div> <div> <h2>The Ultimate Story Framework for #NaNoWriMo</h2> <div><h3>You might hate what you’re about to read.</h3></div> <div><p>medium.com</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/1*UwK4ijDoU0HIdV-jx289rA.jpeg)"></div> </div> </div> </a> </div><h2 id="fc63">Are you a planner or a pantser?</h2><p id="23fe">Unlike Chad, I don’t go into the challenge with any planning at all other than the intention to participate and write when and where the time allows. Yes, where is included as I have been known to write while a passenger in a car on a long drive to visit one or of our children’s homes during the month of November.</p><p id="9988">A third article came my way written by Robin Nemesszeghy. Her article gives five tips for NaNoWriMo success.</p><div id="9807" class="link-block"> <a href="https://robinnemesszeghy.medium.com/nanowrimo-d95fac1dad2a"> <div> <div> <h2>NaNoWriMo</h2> <div><h3>National Novel Writing Month</h3></div>

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NaNoWriMo 2022

Some of these were NaNoWriMo projects — © Robert G. Longpré

I have participated in National Novel Writing Month since 2013. Since then, I have written more than 375,000 words. I met the 50,000-word target six times over the past eight years. I am going to give it another go this year even though I have made other commitments that will carve significant chunks of time out of my life.

Why then even start? I love writing and not reaching the goal by the end of November doesn’t mean that I won’t finish the proposed novel sometime in the following months. I play the long game knowing that it is the daily process, that journey of writing, that is the most important — not the destination.

My story is going to be the third in a series of #kidlit novels. A novel for one of my grandsons. I just published the second novel which I will be presenting to him as a birthday present in two weeks' time. That novel was a project from 2020 when I curiously didn’t enter the NaNoWriMo challenge. I wrote enough to have the story split into two books. It takes time from writing “The End” until a book is ready to be sent out into the world.

I hadn’t planned on bringing up my NaNoWriMo project on Medium, but I saw this post by Susie Kearley, a post that let me know that there was a publication called Reciprocal. I was already familiar with Susie’s work, so I decided to follow her lead in this new venture on Medium.

And then I found Chad Grills who approaches the challenge in a different manner.

Are you a planner or a pantser?

Unlike Chad, I don’t go into the challenge with any planning at all other than the intention to participate and write when and where the time allows. Yes, where is included as I have been known to write while a passenger in a car on a long drive to visit one or of our children’s homes during the month of November.

A third article came my way written by Robin Nemesszeghy. Her article gives five tips for NaNoWriMo success.

Susie mentioned in her post that there was a Medium group for NaNoWriMo.

I went to check it out and found that nothing recent had been posted there. I wonder if that will change as more people engage in the challenge. Whether you take the challenge or not, I encourage you to “write on!”

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