I Am Participating in National Novel Writing Month #nanowrimo

National Novel Writing Month takes place every November with the goal of getting as much writing done as possible. The website objectives are 50,000 words which is approximately a 175 page novel.  This year I will be working on a sci fi novel.  My life is very very very busy so to help myself out I have created a story outline with a sentence or two regarding the major plot points.

Will you be participating this year?  

What are you writing?

Here are some questions to get you started writing:
What is the premise of your story? A person in a place doing a thing. What happens to whom and what will they do about it? What is the hero's goal? What is at stake? What happens if the hero fails?



Links & Resources

Find me here to be my writing buddy.

Here's the official Nanowrimo site where you can sign up and create an account. The site is a great resource for finding participants in your local areas.
http://www.nanowrimo.org/

How to outline your story for National Novel-Writing Month – checklist

A Simple Novel Outline – 9 questions

Creative Writing Worksheets from Creative Writing Solutions

Article on Writers Digest: Plot Like a Bestseller

Story Elements Checklist



Inspiring Quotes

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"Becoming a writer is about becoming conscious. When you're conscious and writing from a place of insight and simplicity and real caring about the truth, you have the ability to throw the lights on for your reader. He or she will recognize his or her life and truth in what you say, in the pictures you have painted, and this decreases the terrible sense of isolation that we have all had too much of." Anne Lamott

"Let us record the atoms as they fall upon the mind in the order in which they fall, let us trace the pattern, however disconnected and incoherent in appearance, which each sight or incident scores upon the consciousness. Let us not take it for granted that life exists more fully in what is commonly thought big than in what is commonly thought small." Virginia Woolf

"It's a great lesson about not being too precious about your writing. You have to try your hardest to be at the top of your game and improve every joke you can until the last possible second, and then you have to let it go. You can't be that kid standing at the top of the waterslide, overthinking it...You have to let people see what you wrote." Tina Fey