NaNoWriMo 2016 Project Reveal
It’s that time of year again! The time of year where red and orange leaves fall from their trees, scarves and boots come out of the closet, and crazy writers such as myself make the commitment to write 50,000 words in 30 days!
This will be my 4th year participating, and it sort of kind of snuck up on me. This year, my business plan lead me to starting a new novel on September 1st, so I acted as if THAT month was my nano and wrote 60k words, then self-edited it between the months of Sept and Oct. Therefore, when ACTUAL nano started to approach, I debated whether or not I wanted to participate this year.
I decided that I just love the nano community and excitement too much NOT to participate. (Also, the theme this year is just so badass!)
I am tempted to start new words, as I've always done with nano in the past (and also it's more fun), but I've decided that I need to finish several projects before I dive into more new words. I have two full novels of a series that need ripped apart and self-edited, as well as the planning for the third book in the series.
I will be using this NaNoWriMo as an opportunity to catch up on my thriller series "The Idea Man Series". I will be self-editing the first book, "The Idea Man" and the second book, "The Marked Man". I will also novel plan out beats (an outline) for the third book in the series.
How I will calculate words:
1 hour of extensive editing = 1,000 words.
**Unless I write chunks of new words, in which case I'll count those as new words (I plan on filling in holes within these novels with new chapters, and will count those words towards my 50k goal as well.)
Cover Reveal! It’s essentially a mash-up of these two novels covers, “The Idea Man” and “The Marked Man”:
So get your writing fingers, snacks, and creativity at the ready- because we are about to embark on another crazy month of writing like a maniac!
If you’ve never done NaNo before, my publishing imprint WORDWRAITH BOOKS and I hosted a virtual Nano Prep workshop that you can watch for free, HERE.
If you’d like to follow me on this journey (or you are writing too), join my mailing list HERE, or connect with me on nanowrimo.org. My buddy name is: kristinhelling (It’s so creative!).
