![]() ![]() One of my friends just finished his first draft of his first novel – it took him 10 years to write that first draft. I also have noticed that writers who don’t set deadlines for themselves often end up spending a lot more time working on their novels, and indeed many never finish their novels at all. I then have to go back and edit large swaths of writing. If I take too long writing a novel I often forget most of the details and plot that were covered in the beginning of the novel, so the start of the novel and the end do not match. I believe one of the enemies of novel writing is not having a strict deadline. I thought I could write a much better novel if I had more time but still had a strict ‘must finish by’ date. It generates a lot of very raw material, without giving the writer any time to edit as they go. But even if I had the time to do it, I am not sure it is the right challenge for me. Now that I have a full time job, a child, a husband, and any number of writing projects on the go, NaNoWriMo is unfeasible. In fact, I never managed to make it very far past the first draft because of that. Before I had a child, I completed NaNoWriMo twice, although I did not have a full time job either time I did it.īoth times I participated in NaNoWriMo I really enjoyed the process, but I was forced to type at such a pace that both books I wrote during it required a great deal of editing. Many famous authors, including John Green Rainbow Rowell have participated.īut for many writers that work full time writing a novel in one month is difficult, if not impossible. It is a novel writing challenge where participants try to write a 50,000 word novel during the month of November. Most authors have heard of National Novel Writing Month, also known as NaNoWriMo. ![]()
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