15 Minutes a Day Keeps the NaNo Monsters Away

NaNoWriMo is just around the corner. The time when writers —  professional, amateur, novice, and the whole of everyone in between — come together to pump out a 50,000 word manuscript (or 50,000 words of a manuscript) in a mere thirty days. It’s a nightmare. But a nightmare that, somehow, year after year attracts all of us writers and really pushes us to our limits, as well as teaches us what exactly we’re capable of doing in thirty days.

This is on a real thermos in the NaNo shop. Get yours at https://store.nanowrimo.org/merchandise/nanowrimo-nutritional-facts-travel-cup

I will be entering my second round of NaNo this year, and as it creeps closer, I’m starting to question what I was thinking doing it again in the first place.

If you’ve never done NaNo, or heard about NaNo, or anything of the like, don’t let the 50,000 mark fool you. It may (or may not) sound easy, but if broken down, it comes out to 1,667 words a day. For some of you, you’re lucky if you can produce 300.