Well, here you go. S.L. Viehl (one of her many nom de plumes) has announced on her Paperback Writer blog that she is unofficially entering National Novel Writing Month this year -- and she's setting a personal goal of 2000 words/day.
That's right, dear reader. Two thousand words. A day. That's about 400 over the minimum to win NaNoWriMo.
And what's more, she'll do it. Oh yes she will.
If you follow PW, which I do, this woman is a fiend. She's more than able to hit 4500 words a day, and she does a lot of this via Dragon Naturally Speaking because she's got some hand/wrist issues.
October 26, 2009
October 4, 2009
Five Things to Do to Get Ready for NaNoWriMo 2009
NaNoWriMo starts in 26 days. When the clock strikes 12:00 am on November 1st, participants will have 30 days to write 50,000 words. That's 1667 words/day if you write every single day.
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What can you do to get ready? Here are 5 things to do as you're getting ready for the Big Day:
1. Get your research materials together and organized. You may not want to trust the web, and some books may be vital to your work. Things like a dictionary, thesauraus, atlas, near at hand may be valuable time-savers as well as those reference works particular to your genre or plot, e.g., Grey's Anatomy if you're going to be the next Kathy Reichs, or Daily Life in Elizabethan England if you're writing a historical romance. Buy what you need, gather what you already have, and put everything near to your workspace.
2. Warn family and friends that you're not being rude when you totally ignore them the entire month of November. Maybe a free autoresponder for your emails will help. And don't feel guilty when they call or text anyway and you don't reply. You're writing, and it's important.
What can you do to get ready? Here are 5 things to do as you're getting ready for the Big Day:
1. Get your research materials together and organized. You may not want to trust the web, and some books may be vital to your work. Things like a dictionary, thesauraus, atlas, near at hand may be valuable time-savers as well as those reference works particular to your genre or plot, e.g., Grey's Anatomy if you're going to be the next Kathy Reichs, or Daily Life in Elizabethan England if you're writing a historical romance. Buy what you need, gather what you already have, and put everything near to your workspace.
2. Warn family and friends that you're not being rude when you totally ignore them the entire month of November. Maybe a free autoresponder for your emails will help. And don't feel guilty when they call or text anyway and you don't reply. You're writing, and it's important.
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