Pre-NaNoWriMo Book Giveaway: Day 2

Pre-NaNoWriMo Book Giveaway: Day 2

Today is Day 2 of the Pre-NaNoWriMo Book Giveaway! I give you a tip to prepare you for writing 50,000 words in November as Pre-NaNoWriMo prep. Share the tip or otherwise help me gain exposure for the pre-nanowrimo books and resources, and you’re automatically entered to win (click here for details).

First, before I share today’s Pre-NaNoWriMo Tip, I’d like to announce yesterday’s social media winners! Congratulations all! 

Facebook: Diana Schaffter
Twitter: Robin Delany
Pinterest: m baker

Thanks to everyone playing along! Your love and support and enthusiasm lift me! Winners, please send me you snail mail and choice of book or if you’d prefer one of the video courses. Let me know. 

New winners will be picked out of today’s social media activity!

DAY 2 Pre-NaNoWriMo Tip

Preparation is your key to a successful writing month! 

The goal in November is not to write a polished novel. Next month’s goal and every fast-writing goal is simply to write the bare bones, foundation, design, essence, promise of a story from beginning to end — all the way to the end with words, lots and lots of words — and with the idea of going back and revising after the month (time) is up. 

Begin now:
1) Visualize yourself letting go, writing with abandon, sleeping, eating, breathing your story for an entire month, becoming obsessive of your writing time and compulsive about writing, letting the real world drop away as you fully enter the exotic world of your story. Without judgement, criticism or shame, see yourself writing for the pure joy of putting one word after another in the spirit of creating something out of nothing but a fragment, a wisp, a dream…

2) Clear your calendar of everything next month.

3) Schedule in your writing, sleeping, writing, eating, writing, plotting, dreaming, writing time.

4) See yourself writing everyday joyfully.

5) See yourself starting at the beginning and writing all the way to the end… all the way to the end (this is a critical step for success. After all, your goal is write from beginning to end. Much easier to revise and make something out of all the words you’ll be generating when you’ve written your story all the way to the end.)

(NOTE: don’t worry if you’re starting in the right place, if you have a strong enough plot or any of the details. We’ll get to that in December. For now, give yourself permission to completely give yourself to writing your story.)