Surviving Nanowrimo

Did you know that November is National Novel Writing Month? Well it is. Every years millions and millions of people participate in it. There is an official site called, Nanowrimo. 2008 was my first year. It was also their tenth year running this too.

Where to get started?  That is the question.  How do you plan on writing your novel.  Its easier to do it through the computer rather than writing it out yourself plus the fact at the end you have to upload everything to prove that you had made it.

Your goal is to writer over 1600 words per day.  I always suggest write as much as you can and do your best.  If the goal is 1600 if you start on the first day, then you should write more just in case of days you can't write or for whatever reason it may be.  Its great to finish early too.

When I first started writing with Nano, I started writing in word, but it does not always help like you really want it.

I ended up trying some other ones.

Here is a list of some you can try out. I currently you ywriter and love it.

• Q10
• Open Office
  
• Supernotes
• Writer's Cafe
• Write Way
• Lyx
• Rough Draft
• Ywriter
• Celtx
  

Don't worry if you don't get your word count for the day.  Keep trying.  That usually means in the coming days, you will have to make it up.  There were days last year that I did not write anything and then I made up for it on the other days and still came out with 50,000+ words.  Its about challenging yourself.