{"id":3027,"date":"2013-09-15T11:51:44","date_gmt":"2013-09-15T19:51:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.smoothdraft.com\/?p=294"},"modified":"2013-09-15T11:51:44","modified_gmt":"2013-09-15T19:51:44","slug":"how-to-be-a-nano-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/how-to-be-a-nano-winner\/","title":{"rendered":"How to be a #NaNo Winner"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"triberr_endorsement\"><\/div>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"margin: 10px;\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/files.content.lettersandlight.org\/nano-2012\/files\/2012\/11\/Winner-180x180.jpg?resize=180%2C180\" width=\"180\" height=\"180\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Are you going to participate in NaNoWriMo this year?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nanowrimo.org\/\"><strong>National Novel Writing Month<\/strong><\/a>, if you\u2019re not familiar with the nickname, is a huge international event where writers attempt to finish a 50,000-word novel between November 1 and 30. The rule: you can only write during the month of November.<\/p>\n<p>I first did NaNo back in 2007 and have \u201cwon\u201d all but once in the 6 times I participated since then. The very first year I banged out about 55,000 words and spent the next six months revising the story to fill in all the missing scenes I skimmed over. The end result was over 150,000 words. Not a particularly successful result for me. I realized I didn\u2019t have much of an idea where I was going when I started writing.<\/p>\n<p>Since the very first year, I\u2019ve tweaked and perfected my novel-in-a-month strategy to the point I can write a layered, complex novel in a month, though they usually hit the 70k or 80k mark. Even when it\u2019s not NaNo season, I use this method to plan and write my novels, and to date, every one of them has been contracted by a publisher.<\/p>\n<p>The novels I wrote during NaNo 2011 and 2012 have been published. 2011 was <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/SaiPOL\">Italian Ice <\/a><\/em><\/strong>and 2012 was <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/amz-crush\">An Intoxicating Crush<\/a><\/em><\/strong>. This year I intend to write another novel that should be ready to send to a publisher at the end of November.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll be sharing my process in a series of posts on how to plan, prepare and write your NaNo story so you too can be a winner.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">If you have specific questions<\/span><\/strong>, feel free to ask in the comments, and I will answer them in future posts. I\u2019ll also add a section on revising your NaNo novel.<\/p>\n<p><i>Smooth Draft will be offering a special NaNo editing discount.<\/i> Stay tuned for more information or <a href=\"http:\/\/eepurl.com\/FiFpj\">sign up for our Newsletter<\/a> to get exclusive content and first access to all special offers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Are you going to participate in NaNoWriMo this y [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":3029,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[518,430,237],"tags":[951,667,18,936,952,940,555,931],"class_list":["post-3027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-our-writing-tips","category-smooth-draft","category-writing-tips","tag-blog","tag-feature-article-2","tag-nano","tag-nanowrimo","tag-our-writing-tips","tag-smooth-draft","tag-syndicated","tag-writing-tips"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/2012-nano-winner.jpg?fit=180%2C180","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pzLgx-MP","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3027"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3411,"href":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3027\/revisions\/3411"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}