@NaNoWriMo / #NaNoWriMo is here! It's time to sit down and craft those perfectly curated little stories, right? WRONG. It's time to sit down and just GET IT ON THE PAGE. No matter how messy, ugly, and not-right it is. I say this so that you come into NaNoWriMo with a clear understanding of what it is EXACTLY that you are creating and that it will be, in all honestly, a bit crap. And you know what? THAT IS FANTASTIC. ALLOW YOURSELF TO BE A BIT CRAP. The truth of the matter is… first drafts are always a bit crap. In fact, first drafts are MEANT to be a bit crap. That’s the nature of first drafts. And the reason you allow your first draft to be a bit crap is because the important part of creating a first draft is not to write a polished, perfect, incredible novel. The point of a first draft is to get the STORY onto the PAGE. All the magic of tone and form and style happens in editing. But all the magic of running and jumping and loving and hating and living and dying and killing and screaming and kissing … that happens in the first draft. And it is supposed to sweep you away and plunge you into your world and make your chest ache and your stomach twist and your eyes swim and your mouth grin. And you can’t do that if you’re self-censoring every time you pick up the metaphorical (or not) pen. So allow your first draft to be a bit crap. Because fearing to write because you’re going to be a bad writer is silly; if you hate everything you put on the page, if your inner editor cringes at each typo, then how will any of it get ONTO the page? Embrace that your NaNo is going to be a bit crap and use that as permission to keep writing. Think: “Oh, well, this scene is a bit crap. But that’s okay, because I can edit later! LATER! For now I will follow my fingers and my imagination wherever they shall lead and it will be GLORIOUS.” So there it is. There’s my advice for NaNo. BE GLORIOUSLY, WONDERFULLY, UNASHAMEDLY A BIT CRAP. #writingadvice #amwriting #writing #wordsforwriters #writersofinstagram #authoraodinstagram #author #JMFrey #wattpad #wattpadstars#nano #nanowrimo20 #nanowrimo2020 https://www.instagram.com/p/CHDV9Y6goUJ/?igshid=y9egw309wp3r