{"id":3187,"date":"2013-11-03T23:25:26","date_gmt":"2013-11-04T07:25:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/?p=3187"},"modified":"2013-11-05T14:53:08","modified_gmt":"2013-11-05T22:53:08","slug":"nanowrimo-planning-nanoplan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/nanowrimo-planning-nanoplan\/","title":{"rendered":"#NaNoWriMo Planning Kit #NaNoPlan"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"book<\/a>National Novel Writing Month began on November 1. How are you doing so far?<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve put together a series of blog posts on the best way to plan your NaNo novel so you be much more likely to not only keep writing, hit the 50,000-word mark, but also end up with a finished novel at the end of the month. You may even find you need to do less of the heavy rewriting, if you get on a solid foundation before or during the first draft.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve been doing NaNo for about six years now. I\u2019ve made every mistake there is. Do any of these sound familiar? Stared at a blank screen with no clue what happens next? Had a story that never ended,? Couldn\u2019t finish a story? Wrote 50k then spent the next year fleshing it out, shocked when it ended up at 150k because it was way more than should be in one novel?<\/p>\n

Over the years I\u2019ve found a system that works. It works so well, I don\u2019t just use it for NaNo anymore.<\/p>\n

For the past three years, I send my NaNo novel to a publisher in December and had the book published. I love my NaNo planning and writing method so much, I use it for all of my books now, and have gotten contracts from a top publisher in my genre for the past five time. (In fact, I just got a contract on October 25 for the novel I wrote during the month of August using this method).<\/p>\n

The biggest NaNo obstacles are:<\/p>\n