Pro Tips from a NaNo Coach: It’s Never Too Late
NaNoWriMo can seem like a daunting task sometimes, for NaNo newbies and veterans alike. Fortunately, our NaNo Coaches are here to help guide you through November! Today, author Roseanne A. Brown is here to share some advice on getting started and catching up:
Stop me if this feels familiar:
November 1st: It’s the first day of NaNoWriMo and you are PUMPED! Your playlists are playing! Your aesthetics are inspiring! By noon, you’ve hit that magic number—1667—and by the afternoon, you’re several hundred words past it! This! Is! Your! Year!
November 2nd: Okay, not as many words as yesterday, but you’re still on track, and you’re still feeling good! You’ve got this!
November 5th: You really, really want to write today but the dog needs a walk/the spouse needs a ride to the airport/that assignment needs finishing/life is life-ing all over the place. Surely one day not writing won’t throw you off that much…
November 11th/13th/mid-month-day-of-your-choice: ……Uh Oh.
If you’re anything like me, more often than not your attempts to do NaNoWriMo look uncomfortably like the above. You begin the month with a flare of creativity and gusto, only to find yourself sitting on the ground two weeks later, sobbing into a bag of Doritos wondering where it all went wrong. Especially in 2020, when the first week of November felt like a clown car taped to a flaming carousel careening down a highway at 90 mph.
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