Use the Right Novel Idea for NaNoWriMo
October 2nd 2010 19:14
With less than one month until NaNoWriMo, it's time to get serious about planning your novel.
If you've carried a notebook around with you to collect your ideas, go through them and identify the one (or the ones) that you like most. Don't go for anything you think you ought to write but are not passionate about. Passion for your idea is important as it's easier to keep going with something you love even when things are getting a bit rough. So find the ideas that resonate strongly with you, those are the ones that will get you to the other end of 50k. Examine each idea to find the ones with potential for a longer piece of fiction. If you love an idea but have a feeling that you would run out of story long before reaching 50k words, you'd better drop it. Save the short story ideas for December.
If you didn't collect ideas, figure out what your big novel idea is. Freewrite with the help of writing prompts and cluster potential story ideas if you're still a bit clueless. Don't worry if you don't know what to write yet, you still have more than four weeks to figure it out.
If you've carried a notebook around with you to collect your ideas, go through them and identify the one (or the ones) that you like most. Don't go for anything you think you ought to write but are not passionate about. Passion for your idea is important as it's easier to keep going with something you love even when things are getting a bit rough. So find the ideas that resonate strongly with you, those are the ones that will get you to the other end of 50k. Examine each idea to find the ones with potential for a longer piece of fiction. If you love an idea but have a feeling that you would run out of story long before reaching 50k words, you'd better drop it. Save the short story ideas for December.
If you didn't collect ideas, figure out what your big novel idea is. Freewrite with the help of writing prompts and cluster potential story ideas if you're still a bit clueless. Don't worry if you don't know what to write yet, you still have more than four weeks to figure it out.
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