55,000 Words in 30 Days 📝 5 Takeaways from Winning NaNoWriMo
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- Опубликовано: 24 июл 2024
- This November I participated in the NaNoWriMo challenge to write 50,000 words of a novel in the course of the month, and I succeeded - and ended up with a completed (if rough) first draft of a novel! In this video, I get into what my writing stats for the month were and my five main takeaways: the one significant mistake I made, and the four strategies that were most helpful for writing this much in a single month.
I love how simple you made the outline look. Would love to see a video on how that actually looks in practice and how you you go about creating it. I’ve just finished outlining my first book and have really struggled with organising my ideas, so that would be really helpful 😊. Thanks, Adele
Congratulations! Finishing a book is such a big deal and I'm so happy for you!
I have a folder with my first and only completed novel in it, too! 100-something handwritten pages of stained looseleaf paper. lol.
Congrats on first draft! Just randomly stumbled on your channel. The algorithm must be working, cause I too am trying to get back into writing. Loved it so much as a kid and I’m going back and picking up all the hobbies Little Me did. Plus I’ve also got long red curly hair. Nice to see someone else with it :) good luck with the dissertation!
Oh wow you were BUSY in November!! I loved this video. You're super inspiring!! I'm a very slow writer, but like you I have loved writing since I was a child. This was positively invigorating to watch!!
Great video!! I love takeaway #3.
Been listening to this in the background as I work and it’s very inspiring.
Congrats!
You beat the midmonth curse! I stopped at week 3 after an intense 25k sprint while drawing a comic, for then to shift to another outline to clock in total 35k..
Next year, it'll be in the bag.
What ought to be said in getting greedy and overshoot the 1666 daily early i n the challenge, is allow the hands to stop and to quit while ahead, then switch to note taking if you see the beats or details, then go at it the day after, having the brain reset. I mistake I saw myself do was to take a whole lot of notes after the fact while expanding it with thoughts and beats that had yet to be written before the writing took place, and after capping the 2100 mark.
Spending time rehashing and explaining it too took time and energy out to do the daily.
Good luck with the editing!
35k is a huge achievement, congrats! I definitely understand the urge to expand and annotate midway through - sometimes I worry that all the seemingly brilliant ideas I have in the drafting process are going to evaporate when I return for revisions. Which, honestly, they might... but I find that just for myself, the risk of losing those ideas and plans is worth the exchange of having a semi-completed first draft, first drafts are just so daunting for me.
Good luck with your continued work on your project!!
I have been listening to that Amy Winehouse episode! Love 'You're Wrong About'! I have also been thinking about what I wanted to do when I was younger, so I related hard to this. Interesting to hear your experience, as someone who also likes structure. I find the Pomodoro method really useful as well.
Congrats! I loved the video and how you explained each step. I can only dream of writing as fast as you. I truly appreciate your dedication.
Thanks! I have to say though (and I promise this is not false modesty) I only write first drafts so quickly because my first drafts are sooo messy and not very well written! After reading back what I wrote for this project, I’ve been tempted just to scrap the whole thing, because this draft needs so much editing before it becomes anything decent or coherent… still though, it’s fun to have accomplished a complete first draft of any quality!
I tried this year, and failed😅 Well done on your feat! I’m excited to follow the journey- I do love a good romance
So you wrote a novel while working on your PhD and while having a RUclips channel? And I am here telling myself that I will continue with writing once I finish my master's thesis while the RUclips channel is a wish I plan to work on one day. I mean the second one. I have given up on my first a year and a half ago.
OK, I can do it. I can finish my thesis by the end of the summer and defend it before the classes start in the next school year. Then I will be free of guilt for following up with my passions because there will be no "I need to study instead." demon following me around.
Just... There is so much resistance. It is making my life much harder than it needs to be.
To be totally transparent, I have free time to do things like this in large part because I live in a different time zone from all my friends and family - when I had more of a social life, I spent less time on creative writing and content creation! It's always a balancing act to fit multiple things in. I like taking on challenges, but I would never recommend taking on things that make life harder and more stressful than they need to be. Life is long - there's time for work and passion projects and many things besides, but sometimes one needs to take priority over the other for a while!
@@GlutenbergBible Thanks.
Love the Video
Congrats on the Victory
A couple questions!!
How long did you work on your outline for? I know you said you toss'd out a fair amount of it.
Love rule #5, biggest one I struggle with. "No going back to fix the things, I didn't like about the earlier chapters!"
The idea after you finish the first draft, give it at least 2 weeks, before you return to that universe with fresh eyes, also solid.
Thanks! I spent about a week and a half writing the outline after a very productive three-hour bus ride daydreaming up most of the plot 😂
I definitely had some trouble sticking to my resolution to just go forward without looking back - I have to admit I did go back a couple times! But sticking to the structure as much as possible definitely helped!
Thx for this process description. Just another question: What is the keyboard Your are using? I saw it at 00:05. Is it comfortable to type on?
It's the Logitech ergonomic keyboard! I love it, the shape of it is meant to allow your hand to be in a more natural resting position and reduce the strain of typing. I have a repetitive stress injury in my hand that can be aggravated by typing and using the ergonomic keyboard has made a big improvement for me!
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