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Latest revision as of 18:51, 16 October 2015
Ref: Powerpoint slides
This interactive workshop covered many topics, including:
- why you might want to write your novel in November
- how you can develop a framework for your novel
- why you want to finish in November
- tools you might want to consider
- strategies for succeeding
- how to avoid getting derailed by
- writer's block
- plot bunnies
- mid-month slump
- not finishing in November
There were three writing exercises:
- try out a word war (writing to one of three pictures)
- visualization exercise (describe a place using all five senses but leaving out people)
- add a person to the mix
Also see the NaNoWriMo in a Nutshell workshop delivered to the Windy City chapter of the Romance Writers of America, 2015-10-14.