Showing posts with label 5 Lessons I Learned from NaNoWriMo. Show all posts
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Thursday, December 3, 2015

5 Lessons I Learned from NaNoWriMo

by Lynn Blackburn @LynnHBlackburn

NaNoWriMo 2015 has come to an end.

I did not win. I didn’t even come close.

I’m completely okay with that.

I knew that signing up for NaNoWriMo this year was a bit…well…crazy. (See last month’s post for the details). I did it anyway, and I have no regrets. There are words on the page that absolutely would not have been there if I hadn’t at least made the effort. In fact, there’s a good chance that my first draft would still be languishing in that dark and dreary place between “almost there” and “the end.” As December dawns, not only do I have a completed (finally!) first draft, but I’m almost 20K into a new story.