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NaNo Coach: Pushing Past the Land of First Drafts

lettersandlight:

This season, we’ve brought on published authors to serve as NaNo Coaches to help guide you to reaching 50,000 words. Our final NaNo Coach, author Julie Murphy, shares her words of wisdom:

Whether you won NaNoWriMo, made a valiant attempt, or met your own personal goal, you are here! *points to December on calendar* 

You made it through November, and even if you didn’t hit 50K, you forced yourself to face my own worst fear: the blinking cursor on a blank document. But… now what?

Writing a novel in a month is exhilarating: It’s the cliff diving of noveling. But it’s also exhausting. So, give yourself a breather.  It’s easy to lose steam during that last week of NaNoWriMo, and the best fix is to restock your supply of inspiration. So, all the movies, books, television, plays, art exhibits, and social functions you shunned during the month of November? Time to play catch up! Rejoin civilization and absorb as much as you can. The currency of writing is life experiences, so power down the computer and stock up.

But don’t forget. There’s still work to be done.

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