{"id":393,"date":"2011-11-27T22:48:58","date_gmt":"2011-11-27T22:48:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/cindy2\/index.php\/2011\/11\/27\/what-i-learned-from-nanowrimo\/"},"modified":"2019-10-23T12:54:59","modified_gmt":"2019-10-23T16:54:59","slug":"what-i-learned-from-nanowrimo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/2011\/11\/27\/what-i-learned-from-nanowrimo\/","title":{"rendered":"What I Learned from NaNoWriMo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';\">NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) finishes on Wednesday. I participated for the first time this year along with my former teaching partner and a dozen students. We made goals and we tried to write every day and reach our goals. We met on Wednesday afternoons, and a few of us <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';\">met on Saturday mornings <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';\">at Panera to write. It looks like all but two of the fourteen who started will complete their goals. <br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';\">I bet all of us learned different things about writing and about ourselves as writers this month, but I bet we learned many of the same things as well. <br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';\">Here\u2019s my list:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';\">I can write 200 words a day every day no matter how busy the day is. It\u2019s a small enough goal that it\u2019s always possible. When I know I&#8217;m going to write 200 words, I keep my eye (and ear) out for inspiration.<br \/><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';\">200 words add up. At 6000 words, I have discovered characters and problems and storylines. I have something to work with.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';\">There are lots of blogs on the web that help when you\u2019re stuck writing. The pep talks from different authors on the <a href=\"http:\/\/ywp.nanowrimo.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NaNoWriMo site<\/a> were excellent. I really enjoyed reading <a href=\"http:\/\/maureenjohnsonbooks.tumblr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Maureen Johnson\u2019s blog<\/a>. During the month of November she wrote a post answering questions about writing a novel so fast. They\u2019re worth looking up!<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';\">It\u2019s more fun to make goals with other people and check in on how everyone\u2019s doing.<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';\"> <br \/><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';\">Congratulations to everyone who attempted NaNoWriMo!&nbsp; No matter how far you got towards your goal, you&#8217;re amazing for trying.&nbsp; I hope some of you will add more to my list.&nbsp; Leave a comment!<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) finishes on Wednesday. I participated for the first time this year along with my former teaching partner and a dozen students. We made goals and we tried to write every day and reach our goals. We met on Wednesday afternoons, and a few of us met on Saturday mornings at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/2011\/11\/27\/what-i-learned-from-nanowrimo\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What I Learned from NaNoWriMo&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1232,"href":"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393\/revisions\/1232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}