Last year, I was horrified to see the word counts of other participants.
Some people would have you believe they’d written 100,000 words on the 1st day.
Others maintained that they wrote 4-5,000 words a day and were finished in two weeks.
But most people don’t make it to the end - even more don’t have the courage to start.
Don’t pay attention to what others are up to
Whether you write the 1st hundred words or reach a 100,000 you will have still written more words than you would have done if you hadn’t signed up.
So don’t worry about getting to the end and ‘winning’ - this is one race where you win just by taking part.
By all means blog about your progress, but if you’re serious about writing (and let’s face it you should be if you’re going to get through the next month) don’t publish your novel on-line.
Blogging is self-publishing and unless you are really lucky, no publisher is going to touch a work by an unknown that has been self-published.
There are always exceptions, but unless you want to take a huge gamble, my advice is to resist.
A blogged book is often seen as secondhand.
Last year, I came a across a few people who had interest in their novels, but the publisher was not interested if the work had been previously published, even on a website.
They had to take the work down and hope the publisher didn’t find out. That’s not a good way to start to a professional working relationship.
Nanowrimo survival index
tips 1 Get support
tips 2 Break it down
tips 3 A chapter a day
tips 4 Good planning
