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Writing Words - writing it is the only way of getting it written

Finished your novel and got your purple winner bar? Excellent, well done.
Are you getting close? Hang in there, the finishing line is in sight.

But if not, don't feel bad. Look at your wordcount. How high is it? Have you ever written a coherent story of that length before? If the answer is no: Congratulations, now you know you can do it. And even if you wrote longer fiction before, now you have another work in progress you can turn into a well-crafted story.

That's the beauty of NaNoWriMo: As long as you rose to the challenge and gave it your best, it doesn't really matter if you made it across the 50k mark or not. You wrote therefore you win.
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By the time the imagination is finished with a fact, believe me, it bears no resemblance to a fact.
Philip Roth

Take the facts and run wild with them.
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Picture prompt:
Boris bikes, London
Boris bikes


Write about the public transport system in your world: hire bicycle scheme, subway, flying carpets, beaming? How do your characters get around the place?
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NaNoWriMo Daily Inspiration: Finish It

November 27th 2010 11:31
"Finish what you're writing. Whatever you have to do to finish it, finish it."
Neil Gaiman (from the Guardian, Ten Rules for Writing Fiction)

Don't know about you, but that's my motto for this weekend. Get as close to 50k as I can and somewhere in the vicinity of having told the whole story.
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One of your main characters finds herself/himself in a position where she/he has to defend something she/he doesn’t believe in.
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If writing seems hard, it’s because it is hard. It’s one of the hardest things people do.
William Zinsser

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There is no security, no assurance that because we wrote something good two months ago, we will do it again. Actually, every time we begin, we wonder how we ever did it before.
Natalie Goldberg

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Are you behind a little? Are you behind a lot? If you are, don't worry. So am I. It doesn't matter because we still have an entire week left to write.

Here's the thing: Your wordcount today doesn't matter. What matters is the amount of words you'll have in a week today. You want to be a winner? Then believe in yourself and write every time you have a spare moment over the next seven days


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NaNoWriMo Daily Inspiration: Fever

November 21st 2010 22:38
My reason for not writing and for being late with today's NaNo inspiration: Fever. It didn't really inspire me, fingers crossed it'll work better for you.
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Fiction writers, present company included, don't understand very much about what they do - not why it works when it's good, not why it doesn't when it's bad.
Stephen King (On Writing)

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NaNoWriMo Daily Inspiration: Reflected

November 19th 2010 13:53
Picture prompt:
Sunrise at Canary Wharf
Rising sun lighting up Canary Wharf
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NaNoWriMo Daily Inspiration: Broken

November 18th 2010 20:40
There was supposed to be a picture prompt today, but the picture upload is broken for me.

So instead of being inspired by the photograph, write about something that's broken.
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Secrets are great for injecting more conflict into your story. There’s the internal conflict of the character who has the secret, and there’s also a possibility for external conflict when another character knows there is a secret to be uncovered. What will the first character do to keep her/his secret, to which lengths will the second character go to find out what she/he is trying to hide?

If you can’t think of a good secret that would spice up your NaNo novel, browse Postsecret.com for inspiration (not longer than 15 minutes, though!).
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"Try to leave out the part that readers tend to skip."
The last of Elmore Leonard's Ten Rules

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You know these chain emails that promise you luck/money/the love of your life if you send them on to so and so many of your friends? I just go one of those. The dialog won't win awards, but it's a tolerable example of someone fishing for information:

Girl: What's wrong


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NaNoWriMo Daily Inspiration: Forgetful

November 14th 2010 20:51
Write about a forgetful character or have a character forget something that has terrible consequences.

(And I'll try my best to post these in the morning again ... if I do it first thing, I hope I won't forget. Fingers crossed.)
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NaNoWriMo Daily Inspiration: And Action

November 13th 2010 17:49
Character gives us qualities, but it is in actions - what we do - that we are happy or the reverse....All human happiness and misery take the form of action.
Aristotle

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NaNoWriMo Daily Inspiration: Freedom

November 12th 2010 21:57
Freedom: What does it mean for your main character? Is she/he free according to her/his definition? If not, how is she/he going to change that?
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NaNoWriMo Daily Inspiration: Flowers

November 11th 2010 21:23
Picture prompt
Picture prompt: Daisy
Getting Close to Daisy

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NaNoWriMo Daily Inspiration: Trailblazer

November 10th 2010 07:11
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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