Sign up for Nanowrimo
(Image courtesy of National Novel Writing Month. Click image to visit the official NaNoWriMo website)
Words from Chris Baty, founder of National Novel Writing Month
- "Give someone an enormous task, a supportive community, and a friendly-yet-firm due date, and miracles will happen."
- (about the 1st rough draft) “In the context of novel writing, this means you should lower the bar from 'best-seller' to 'would not make someone vomit.' Exuberant imperfection encourages you to write uncritically, to experiment, to break your time-honored rules of writing just to see what happens. In a first draft, nothing is permanent, and everything is fixable. So stay loose and flexible, and keep your expectations very, very low.”
Nanowrimo Sign up Steps
- Go to www.nanowrimo.org
- Click the “Sign Up” button
- Click the boxes for “Agree to Terms” and “I am Human”
- Click Sign Up and you're ready!
Sign up with an email address, Facebook, or Google Account
“My NaNoWriMo” provides (note - Nanowrimo under construction. some links may be temporarily unavailable):
- Stats (track your wordcount. it starts November 1)
- Profile (about you)
- Projects (what you are working on)
- Buddies, Groups, Home Region
- Buddies - your Nanowrimo friends!
- Groups - add writing groups and messages
- Home Region - find stuff in your area like writers’ groups, events, etc.
“Writer’s Resources”
- NaNoWriMo (customize your personal writing challenge)
- Ex. standard Nano is 50,000 words, but John Smith writes poetry so he picked 4,000 words for a goal (about 134 words a day)
- Camp NaNo (pick your preferred time of year, customize challenges)
- NaNo Prep (time to prep a story outline, characters, etc. typically takes place in October)