NaNoWriMo 2019 Survival Tips + Pep Talk!
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- I'm sharing some of my favorite tricks/hacks for surviving NaNoWriMo! Plus, I give a bit of real talk/tough love/pep talk toward the end.
NaNo Tips start at 05:40
Pep Talk starts at 18:30
Tough Love starts at 22:54
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It's my first time trying nanowrimo, *pray for me*
Me too! I'm also behind on my planning. But ready or not here NaNo comes.
Me three! Good luck!
Same! Good luck :) Starting to get nervous now...haha
I’m loving how nice and positive you guys are
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Alexa: it's okay to skip a day
Nanowrimo: wait. That's illegal.
Stop! You violated the law.
NaNo Tips start at 05:40 | Pep Talk starts at 18:30 | Tough Love starts at 22:54
GIVEAWAY NOW CLOSED. Thanks everyone!
Thank you! I honestly probably need all of these 😂
"US only giveaway"
The story of my European life🙁
Love the video though, as always😄
same here in Canada and you’d think it would help sharing a border? newp.
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I'm doing NaNo officially for the first time so I set up a "medal" ranking for final word counts. Bronze is 30-35k Silver is 40-45k and Gold is 50k and above. I'm striving for gold but getting bronze or silver will be good too.
I'm working on a sequel to the book I wrote last year. I'm hoping to get through the first 50k of a rough draft or at the very least 30k. I don't call it a zero draft because I plan so it's more of a rough than a zero.
I'm not on instagram so I won't join the giveaway, but they do look nice. I might get one for my mom for Christmas
Cowabanga! Do it! I love nanowrimo!
My first time too and one thing I havent figured out yet is how do we log our word count! Help if anyone can tell me!
That's smart to do the medals like that!
@@kiasmith1006 you have to create your project first. I'm RavynWhyt on the site, an ML for NaNo, please feel free to message me and I will do my best to help you out!
I like this a lot -- might adopt it myself! I'm in grad school with at least half a dozen other projects that will be ramping up within the next week or two, so I have no idea how far I'll realistically get once November is in full swing.
I listened to this while I was cooking and while turning my back, my kitchen towel caught on fire. No damaged happened, but I felt like sharing the story of me almost burning down the house while trying to regain my creativ energy and motivation for NaNoWriMo. 😂
Girl you are killing it! I’ve been following since about the 6k subscriber mark and now you are hurling towards 50k!
You now have more content than I can even watch, super high quality advice and great content!
Keep up the amazing work!
I absolutely adore all of your videos where you include some tough love. Some stuff in videos like this can be really fluffed up but the tough love makes it more helpful/realistic/honest.
I started doubting myself about trying it out this time around - “there’s always next year!” But this has re-inspired me and I’m excited to give it a go and Vlog the experience!
I did NaNo for the first time many years ago and finally finished my novel, it's definitely a HUGE motivator. I spent the next 2 Nano's revising (mostly rewriting) the book, which eventually became my debut. This is the first time in years I've fallen on the time where I was ready to write a project in November so I'm so happy to get in on the excitement this year. Good luck Alexis and I'd love to enter the giveaway. :0)
This will be my 4th NaNo and my tip is: use the days where you are motivated (usually the first few and then the last few) to get as much words as possible in. There will be slump days and you can survive those better if you power through the good ones! Happy writing everyone!! 🌟
I’ve been so productive since I’ve been doing live word sprints on RUclips. It helps me to engage with the community and put down some words too.
I’m actually doing some live sprints for NaNo as well (I’m super nervous, but I’m hoping to finish my revisions for NaNo rather than do the 50k)
Thanks for these tips! 💜
Your pep talks always seem to get me back on track! Thanks Alexa!
Ok, the idea of cultivating marathons and things to watch specific to your story idea in your non-writing time is definitely something I'm going to try! I always feel really watching/reading whatever other stuff during nano due to the fear of letting it influence my writing too much, but if I'm doing it with a purpose for further inspiration that seems totally legit and honestly could be really helpful. Thanks!
I am going to have this video on repeat this entire month. Thank you!!
Dude, Clever Fox planners are my jam. I recently bought one for a bullet journal and it is soooo worth it. The price was really inexpensive ($10 if I remember correctly), and the paper is to die for. Zebra Midliners don't bleed at all, and sharpies--fracking sharpies--only ghost slightly on the paper. 10/10, would highly recommend if you're just getting into bullet journaling and you don't want to drop $30+ on a planner.
Ooh, those planners look cool.
I might use them to help reorganize my life. >.> It's a mess
Oh my god this video was exactly what I needed. Really want the planner because I’m SO much better at keeping up with things when I’ve excessively planned them out
I love the planner! Writing my first book and this will help me make goals for word counts but also as a tool of reflection since it’s been a tough two years since I was laid off AND going through divorce... it’s been two years of transformations for me and now finally focusing on me and my long term dream to write a book!
Entering the giveaway. I've never used Instagram before, so I made an account just to follow Clever Fox and Alexa. :)
For NaNo I'm writing a novel about a girl born with magic abilities she thinks are evil. She never uses the abilities but just having them makes her hate herself. She meets someone else with the same abilities and projects all of her self hatred onto him. In the end she needs to trust him and use her abilities to save the day. She learns that her choices are far more important than what she is capable of. I've never participated in NaNo or finished a first draft before. I'm hoping this story can be the first.
WOAH That sounds cool! I'm writing something that just spontaneously generated itself in the middle of October. Okay, technically it's a spawn of another idea I had before, but it really was sudden. I was just listening to Lenni-Kim (I think Plus Fort?), and my brain went, HEY! What if THIS?! So I went, YES! What IF that?! And immediately started drawing out the story. and THEN, in the middle of doing THAT, my brain went, HEY! I have an idea! Your other idea is nowhere and you don't want to stop thinking about this anyway, so why not just change your mind way too close to the end of Preptober and just _decide_ to make this random thing that you literally just thought of not even a week ago your new project??? So I went, Sure! Sounds like a GREAT idea!! and proceeded to continue outlining as fast as I could. It's been 2 weeks and I'm almost done with the outline. I've also written a few of the scenes and _Hylia_ I hope this goes well.
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:) That's fantastic. At the end of November, you'll have to tell me how the new story idea worked out.
@@evelynadler3949 Definitely! :)
That planner is potential right up my neurotic, extreme list keeping, alley. So yes, I'd like to enter the giveaway.
Each year NaNoWriMo rolls around I think about giving it a go. This might just be the year...
First time nanowrimo and this would help so much. Thanks for the opportunity Alexa!
I love the rose gold 😍. I am attempting my first novel ever this year, so the clever fox planner looks perfect to keep me motivated!
Thank you! subbing, This is my first nano project that is all pantsing and no prep! I full steam ahead chasing a past weird dream!
I used to have their planner and LOVED it! I'm going through another journal now which isn't as handy. Can't wait to get another one! I use them to just track life. My biggest goal is writing my first novel, using NaNoWriMo as a great kick off point and to help me develop a writing habit.
Thanks for these videos! I am attempting Nanowrimo for the first time this year - all the way in West Africa!
Great video! One of my tips for NaNoWriMo is to pay attention to what your greatest time sucks are and figure out which of those things you can drop, if only for November. For me, it's computer games and mindless internet surfing. Then, when you've reached your word count, you can use these things as a reward! I am entering for the planner, too.
Awesome tips and reminders on NaNo. As for the planner... genius. Because I'd never fill a regular planner with anything other than disappointed dust mites.
I will definitely be using it for word count tracker for NaNoWriMo! Writing and suspenseful mystery novel!
I love the Plum Paper planner for its customization options. The one thing it didn't have was a good goal/achievement tracker that I could use for writing, which Clever Fox would fill the gap on.
Ahh I'd love to use the planner to keep track of my goals for NaNoWriMo!
Planning is my catharsis!!! This detailed planner looks super exciting to me - count me in for the planner giveaway!!!
I would be so very excited to use this planner for Nano of course, and also for tracking my health goals as I’ve been trying to focus on my health and self care after having life hand me some pretty sour lemons! ☺️ Those colors are beautiful!
I love a good planner, and these Clever Fox ones look AMAZING. I'd use it for tracking my soap-making progress, but I'll probably find the most value in actually taking a little time every day to figure out what needs done and how well I did at getting there -- I really don't know my own limits as well as I probably should, so a 13 week intensive dive into how I actually function could really help me restructure things in a way that'll help me accomplish my goals without overwhelming myself.
I did NaNoWriMo in 2015, and I have struggled to do it again. This planner would help me so much!! Thanks for the chance to win!
I know this video was posted several years ago but I thought I would add that NaNo's tracking page and target goal settings can be set ANY time. I have used NaNo's project page several times now and I set a custom goals for a project. For example: in 2022 I tried NaNo but I just had too many things going on in November. So in December I went back and set a goal starting on Dec 7th and my deadline was Feb 13th and I set my target at 110K words. It was much less stress and I ended up hitting 120K by the end (I knew I would cut 30K but that was okay). I would rather have extra to trim than feel like there were major holes. This off season NaNo approach worked really well for me. If I need comradery, I can reach out, but I can get the private tracking and keep myself on task.
Love your Nano advice. I've heard plenty of Book/AuthorTubers say Nano isn't super great because it's so focused on word count and not "good writing." I agree and have told other writers it's a great way to network and get your novel rolling. Take the rest of the year to get the MS query-ready :)
I AM OBSESSED WITH PLANNERS! I do bullet journalling, have obsessive folder collections, etc. This would be amazing for me. xx
If I get the goal tracking I would hope to use it to improve myself. Weather that’s my skills: writing, reading, crocheting. Or myself: physical, emotional, mental care. Maybe all.
this is the best video/advice i've ever seen. even nano seems to promote being awful to yourself including skipping sleep which isn't going to help you write at all???
I am most excited about using the planner for NaNo! :) I'm currently working on my second draft of my paranormal, adult novel that follows a young girl who, after joining a paranormal research team, discovers she can communicate with the dead. I'm so excited to stay focused and get those 50,000 words!
Alexa thank you for the give away I will be using it like you to track writing and will be checking them out anyway. I have heard of them until this video and would not have checked them out if they had not asked you to do this video so thank you for that too!
Wait, got so excited I didn't even say Hi Alexa! Thank you for all of your videos, it has helped me so much
Wow--what gorgeous planners! I'm hoping to draft and revise a new YA contemporary, starting in November for NaNo. Thanks for the tips, as always!
P.S. I hope this is clear, but I'd love to enter the giveaway!
So excited for Nano this year!!!!! I want to use it for Nano, but I want to continue to use it for future writing to keep me on track!!
This is my first year participating in NanoWriMo and it has been a long time coming. Your video inspired me to vlog my journey through this plus I feel if I vlog my journey I will be more committed 😂😁
A planner like that would totally help me with making sure I write every day, as well as keep track of a diet and exercise plan, because, well, those aren't habits to me yet. And if I don't write it down, then I basically never do it.
As nanowrimo gets closer and closer, the more my body is freaking out. Why can't I be a pantser like you?? Why must my writing process include a lengthy outline? I do love all your advice, and I know that your writing hacks playlist will be my go to during next month!
My favorite survival tip is what you do - track my writing with stickers (smiley faces) so I can physically see what progress I've made throughout the month.
Oh wow! I barely made it to this video in time! I would love to try out this planner. Love the rose gold! 😍 But even if I don't win, that's okay. I subbed to the Clever Fox channel and followed them on Instagram, so maybe I'll at least pick up some tips and tricks from them about planning in general, which I also love.
I'm not officially participating in NaNo, but I do plan to work on the second book in the series I'm writing with my bestie. Never been great at tracking word counts--or anything, for that matter--but I still like the motivational aspect of NaNo. I love joining in on livestreams to do sprints. They really help! A few of my go-to's have been Sarah Scharnweber, Aphrodite Lee, Natalia Leigh, and Mandi Lynn. There are lots of others, too. It's fun just to jump in and join in on the conversation, even if you're not doing any writing! I joined in on a couple of livestreams while finishing up my last round of edits for the first book in the series. It helped motivate me to keep going and get it done!
Good luck to everyone entering the contest and to anyone participating in NaNo, officially or unofficially! 😊
Those planners look awesome! Would love to win one :) Love your channel, Alexa!
Oh my gosh I would use these for ALL OF MY GOALS...but mainly for prepping my current wip to query :)
I'd use the planner to track both my novel progress and my progress with fencing! I've been into the sport for about a year and a half, but it's hard to measure if I'm any closer to reaching my goals in it!
Loved the video! I’ve done NaNoWriMo for the past three years and have done 3 camp NaNo’s (one of which I successfully wrote 90,000 words) but I think I’m going to do a partial NaNo this year since I’m submitting to agents in November.
Kate Cavanaugh does a ton of NaNo videos as well as words sprints. She's a lot of fun and gives great tips, encouragement, etc. while still being super down to earth.
This will be my 4th NaNo and I've won all three previous years :) My top tip is to use your excitement and motivation at the beginning of the month to get huge word counts in during the first 5-7 days. There will be days later in the month when you're too tired, you get sick, emergencies happen, THANKSGIVING happens, etc. Those extra words from the beginning is a great bit of padding so you can skip a day or two and not get behind.
Good luck, everyone!
Loved this! My nano tips video will be up tomorrow, and this is the first year I’m vlogging my experience 😬🙈 good luck to everyone participating 💕
Just found your page, and i am so excited to join in on my first NaNo!
If I won I'd definitely want to use it for writing goals. On my own I'm not always the best about created writing schedules, but the daily aspect of this sound like it could be just the right "kick in the pants" for my personality.
we're doing this in language arts class and I'm aiming for 40k words ;_;
wish me luck ;_;
I love, love journals... I do most of my drafting, writing, ideas, etc, in notebooks and have had them since I was a wee young lass! This one looks really cool! I just finished my latest writing project (3 months of drafting, 6 months of writing and revising), but right now I'm having a 2-3 month rumspringa to just get creative, play, write blogs, short stories, ideas, first lines, character ideas, just whatever! While I'm waiting to hear back from some queries, full MS request, etc, etc, etc... Waiting... waiting... I don't want to talk about it. So, would be interesting to use the journal to track the creative flow or build on ideas, etc. I'm a pen & paper drafter type. Or maybe save it for my next project? I don't know. Kinda want to get it in my hands on it and then decide. :) It's all about what it speaks to me!
I bought a Clever Fox Dotted Journal, thanks to you. It's very cute. I just write down random sh*t for my next book in it. It's nice. If I ever get an agent, I'll buy the bigger one.... when I have things to do other than writing.
Have my Nano buddies, writing schedule, still have to finish prepping my outline, and a couple of character sketches.
A bioweapon. A nurse. A countdown to zero.
Thank you, I love you for helping me survive this month!
I’ll enter the giveaway!The rose gold is gorgeous.
Doing NaNoWriMo for the first time this year as motivation to finish my (already started) first draft. Currently at ~50k words, but still have quite a bit to go!
Favorite tip would probably be to find people in your local area for write-ins! Im so excited to try it out! I feel that having other people around me will really help to motivate me to finish and creates real accountability.
This will be my second year doing NaNoWriMo and I am not prepared at all- I’m terrified! I need to buckle down like yesterday!!!!
A planner would be useful for such dilemmas 😝😝😝
Getting back into writing after a couple years. Diving right in and doing NaNo (unofficially, I'm just going to personally challenge myself). Wish me luck!
Would love to win a planner. I’d use it for writing goals.
Good tips! My favorite NaNoWriMo survival go to is word sprints! My fav oddball go to is red or black nail polish. It gets me jazzed for some reason. Probably the boldness of the colors💋💃🏽💃🏽💃🏽
This planner sounds like the perfect thing for my planters personality! I’d love to use this to keep myself on track for my first novel that will be part of a trilogy that I’m starting for NaNoWriMo! It’s going to be a new adult trilogy following a boy who is a shifter. He and his twin sister want to change some old traditions in their community but realize The Council would rather go to war than change their ways. MC will be finding himself and rise above his fears while his twin slowly breaks under pressure and becomes a bit mentally unstable. She didn’t realize the cost of opposing The Council while MC comes to terms that they need to finish what they started. I feel like this is a bad explanation 😂 But I’m so excited for this! I’d love a chance to win this planner because I am about to start a new job that will be taking a lot of my time but I’m determined to participate in NaNo this year and would love a way to sort my life to be successful in my job and my writing. I’ve started following Clever Fox on YT and IG. Thank you so much for this amazing opportunity! 💜
Awesome tips Alexa!
I'd use that planner for revisiting (read: finishing) my NaNo novel I did for 2018! I won NaNo but I didn't finish the manuscript.
I started a little late this year but I’m confident that I’m goning to get it done even if it’s not finished until the 3 December❤️My book is about grace ( an angel) that discovers an locked portal to hell. Then she accidentally falls in love with the devil🖤
Hi Alexa! Thank you for the tips as always!
For the giveaway:
For a planner like that it ironically fits perfectly in the goal range I want to finish my novel in! I've been struggling to write due to work or school or life for the past year but through the support of friends and family and actually a lot of help came from your videos (they're hugely motivating, even the harsh ones XD) it feels possible to finish it in the next 3 months. Nothing surprising, I just really love writing about my assassin girl trying to get her ducks (loved ones) in a row so they don't get themselves killed including a prince who attracts more targets on his back than an x marks the spot on a map. They've got plenty of fun with invaders, not so secret competing royalty, and gods all after them. I can hope to fit squishy, heart-tug feels in all that, right?
Either way, thank you for all your incredibly helpful advice! You don't know how much you've helped me these last few months. You are the best!
okay, how do you always read my mind and upload the exact video I need!
The eyeshadow and top match was slay for this video!!!
I'm participating this NaNoWriMo! Working on a fantasy novel and I'm thinking I'll most likely end up working on this specific novel for most of this upcoming year, with the aim of editing and revising next NaNo. We'll see how that goes lol.
Thank you for the warning concerning fantasy novel word counts, I wasn't actually aware of that prior to watching your video so yeah! Good things, good things! Tis why my current tentative plan is to work on my novel for the next year with the goal of editing/revising next NaNo. Again, we'll see how that goes (chronic pantser here attempting to borrow the ways of the planner XD)
Love your videos. They're always super hwlpful. Im not doung NaNo thus year, but i am writing my book a little slow. There are a ton of good stuff in this video to help push through and write faster. Thanks for this helpful vid.
@@chrissycook7673 in a way yes. I made writing goals that forced me to write at a faster pace without stopping for grammar or sentence structure till i was finished reaching or passing my goal. Lately ive avoided making goals like that. I know i need to again.
that planner looks gorgeous and so effective for planning books omg, especially that black navy one 😍. Definitely entering! Thank you for this video Alexa, it’s my second time doing NaNo but i failed last year so I’ve been prepping extensively this year and your videos have been super helpful.
Cannot wait for my first NaNo! ^-^
Nano wrimo is almost here! Planners are the best
Entering the giveaway! I just found your channel through a friend and I'm really enjoying your videos! I'm excited to use the planner to help with my writing. I'm working on a novel and I want to be able to better track my writing. Especially since I get distracted pretty easy haha.
Oh, those planners...😻 I’m entering the giveaway because I’d definitely use one for novel planning. I also just love paper planners in general, but am kind of terrible at using them for an entire year. Three months sounds pretty manageable.😆
Thank you for this wonderful video. I have been a member of the NaNo website since 2014 but have never really participated. This year, I am taking that scary plunge. Don't know if there's any water in that pool, but hey, I'm diving in anyway. LOL!
I'm am participating again this year.
My last successful Nano is still being worked on. it's now over 200K words. I'm certain I may be splitting the story into two novels or more.
I find that having a good strong start really sets the tone and pace for the rest of my month. I always try and get Halloween off anyways, and bonus, I can start Nano at Midnight (Since I work 3rd shift and up at that time anyways.) if I can get ahead of schedule by one or two days on that first day, I feel pretty good and confident about continuing at a good pace.
I would love to use the Clever Fox planner as I work to complete my current WIP, a middle grades novel about two children who try to find a cure for cancer after their science teacher is diagnosed.
It would be just the type of organization that would help me as I work to bring this beast to life. :)
This will be my first NaNo. I already feel the push. Good luck to all.
Physical planners aren't my jam because eeeh, I can't see it but I know these are really cool for fellow writers.
I do everything on my phone or tablet. Also, I'm flexible with my NaNo, otherwise I'm gonna go nuts. I'm gonna focus on finishing book 2. I'm at the very end of the book and I've been stuck for months. We'll see.
This is my first nanowrimo and the first time I'm really trying to push past my fear of failure/inadequacy to finish a novel. I would like to planner to help me stay focused on my goals so that I can push myself to stay faithful to my goal and finish my first draft!
third year at doing NaNo this year but it can't hurt to learn some new things from watching this video ;)
as for the planner: i would use it for keeping track of my goals for both art and my writing
This is my 6th year doing NaNo but my first year trying to write a novel during it ajkksdbvbaf Usually I do fanfic or comic scripts (the only year I 'won' was with a comic script actually!) and I'm never like...overly serious about it, but at the same time the existence of NaNo and the community surrounding it has been one of the only things that got me through some really tough times. My only tip really is to take a breath, relax and have fun with it!
I love a giveaway, and these look really good!
Also, thanks for your videos Alexa! They're very helpful and just the right length for the topics.
Awesome advice as usual!!
This will be my first NaNoWriMo and not going to lie I'm a wee bit nervous. That planner looks amazing. I'm a total sucker for planners. lol
I'm super excited that Nano is starting on a friday. Over the weekend I can build up a word surplus on the energy of the first few days. I recommend people do try and overshoot by 50 or 100 words so you can build a cushion for slower days in the middle of the month.
I'm trying to write the second story to my first book, I'm still sadly working on for the past tens years. So I hope to at least finish most of the main parts to at least have the bare bones of the story.
I really enjoy your videos. So glad I came across you. You helped me a lot. Thanks
I use Scrivener! I bought it for the novel I'm working on!
I love your podcast and videos. Can't wait for the next NovelTea show! 😘
It’s my first time doing nano so this was really helpful
Thanks for amazing tips, Alexa! This is the first time I’m officially doing NaNo. I’m super excited and really nervous! But I’m positive I need to experience NaNo to bring my writing to the next level!
I am entering the giveaway! I currently use a paper planner for my personal life and would love to have one just dedicated to my writing goals!
Thanks, Kasey LeAlma
Thank you for the chance to win! I would use this for my writing for sure🖤🖤🖤
Yesss!! Giveaway!! I'm so excited for this year's NaNo! I'm super hyped about my project and your videos always inspire me to write so it should be a good year! One of those clever fox planners would be a big help too!
I’ve only ever ghostwritten novels before, but this NaNo, I’m finally writing a book under my own name! I’d use the planner to organize and plan that :)