{"id":3867,"date":"2014-09-29T12:01:28","date_gmt":"2014-09-29T19:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.smoothdraft.com\/?p=2113"},"modified":"2014-09-29T11:56:23","modified_gmt":"2014-09-29T18:56:23","slug":"countdown-to-nanowrimo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/countdown-to-nanowrimo\/","title":{"rendered":"Countdown to NaNoWriMo: What\u2019s Holding You Back?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"triberr_endorsement\"><\/div>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2114\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.smoothdraft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/nanocrest.png?resize=144%2C197\" alt=\"nanocrest\" width=\"144\" height=\"197\" \/>It\u2019s the end of September. You\u2019ve got about a month until NaNoWriMo starts. Seems like plenty of time, right? Some of you are wondering why I\u2019m already talking about NaNo when it doesn\u2019t even start until November 1.<\/p>\n<p>Because writing and finishing a book takes more than just the 30 days you\u2019re planning to spend working on it during November. If this is your first time considering doing NaNoWriMo, or you\u2019ve tried before and didn\u2019t quite make your 50k, stay tuned because I\u2019ll be sharing with you my tips, advice and some tricks to help you be ready to start writing on November 1, and to get 50k (or a finished story) by November 30.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2117\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.smoothdraft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/writing-center-wordlie-300x196.jpg?resize=300%2C196\" alt=\"writing-center-wordlie\" width=\"300\" height=\"196\" \/>Take the quick poll below so I can see what your biggest concerns are about participating. I\u2019ll be addressing as many of these as I can before and during November, to help you hit 50k.<\/p>\n<p>What makes me an expert, you may be asking. And that\u2019s a great question. I\u2019ve been doing NaNo for about ten years now, and have hit the 50k goal every year. Most years I\u2019ve finished an even longer novel by November 30. And these novels have been contracted and released by a publisher\u2014not self-published. (<em><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/amz-bft\">Bound for Trouble<\/a><\/em> was my 2013 NaNo project.)<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve collected the worksheets and techniques I use for developing a novel into an easy-to-use novel planning kit,<strong><em> How to Be a NaNoWriMo Winner<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Giveaway: Leave a comment for the chance to win a copy of my book <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/17w2gWU\">How to Be a NaNoWriMo Winner<\/a><\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n<script src=\"http:\/\/static.polldaddy.com\/p\/8339868.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<noscript><a href=\"http:\/\/polldaddy.com\/poll\/8339868\/\">What are your biggest challenges during NaNoWriMo? (choose all that apply)<\/a><\/noscript><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Writing and finishing a book takes more than just the 30 days you\u2019re planning to spend working on it during November. If this is your first time considering doing NaNoWriMo, or you\u2019ve tried before and didn\u2019t quite make your 50k, stay tuned because I\u2019ll be sharing with you my tips, advice and some tricks to help you be ready to start writing on November 1, and to get 50k (or a finished story) by November 30.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":3882,"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":[587,518,29,430,237],"tags":[922,752,841,936,842,411,913,940,555,843,911],"class_list":["post-3867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-feature-article","category-our-writing-tips","category-poll","category-smooth-draft","category-writing-tips","tag-giveaway","tag-how-to-be-a-nanowrimo-winner","tag-nano-2014","tag-nanowrimo","tag-nanowrimo-2014","tag-planning","tag-poll","tag-smooth-draft","tag-syndicated","tag-worksheets","tag-writing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/writing-center-wordlie.jpg?fit=400%2C262","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pzLgx-10n","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3867","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=3867"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3878,"href":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3867\/revisions\/3878"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}