5 Ways Participating in NaNoWriMo Can Help Improve Your Writing
This might just make you sign up come November.
NaNoWriMo — National Novel Writing Month — is a challenge where you must write a 50,000-word novel in under the 30 days of November, which means averaging around 1,700 words a day.
There’s no prize for those who finish, only a downloadable diploma and the personal satisfaction of having achieved such a feat. Oh, and a perfectly useful first draft that you can now turn into a publishable piece.
I was fourteen when I first completed the NaNoWriMo. It was the prime of my creative writing, to be honest, the last great work before I was too busy with academics and entirely forgot how to write fiction.
I had written two previous novels before doing the challenge, but they’d taken me a lot more than just 30 days, so I wasn’t sure at first where I was getting myself into. In the end, however, I wouldn’t have had it any other way. The NaNoWriMo made me better as a writer in many ways, and I think it’s something that every person who wants to improve their craft should experience, especially if your main struggles as a writer are procrastination and shutting off your internal editor.
“But I don’t write novels”, I hear you protest. Well, fortunately for you, that’s all…
