Do you want to write a book? Either way, you should definitely make some muffins
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So NaNoWriMo starts next week and if you follow me on Twitter, you may have seen that this year I'm one of the NaNo Twitter coaches. I've seen so many people scoff at NaNo (I'm sure it will happen this November too), and I was probably one of them, years ago. "Ugh, those people think they can write that much in a month? Those are probably a whole lot of terrible novels! Why would doing something like that make them think they can write?" is what much of the mockery comes down to. And the thing is -- they are indeed a lot of terrible novels! Most first drafts are indeed terrible, but who cares? Part of the point of NaNo, and why it worked so well for me, is to push yourself past all of the doubt and anxiety and second guessing that comes with writing a novel, and just let yourself write it. I was stunned when I found out that
Do you want to write a book? Either way, you should definitely make some muffins
Do you want to write a book? Either way, you…
Do you want to write a book? Either way, you should definitely make some muffins
So NaNoWriMo starts next week and if you follow me on Twitter, you may have seen that this year I'm one of the NaNo Twitter coaches. I've seen so many people scoff at NaNo (I'm sure it will happen this November too), and I was probably one of them, years ago. "Ugh, those people think they can write that much in a month? Those are probably a whole lot of terrible novels! Why would doing something like that make them think they can write?" is what much of the mockery comes down to. And the thing is -- they are indeed a lot of terrible novels! Most first drafts are indeed terrible, but who cares? Part of the point of NaNo, and why it worked so well for me, is to push yourself past all of the doubt and anxiety and second guessing that comes with writing a novel, and just let yourself write it. I was stunned when I found out that