The Goal of NaNoWriMo and Writing a Novel in a Month

The goal next month is not to write a polished novel. Next month’s goal and every fast-writing goal is simply to write the barebones, foundation, design, essence, promise of a story — words, lots and lots of words — with the idea of going back and revising after the month 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.

(NOTE: don’t worry about your plot or if you’re starting in the right place 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.

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