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The first thing you do is visit the website at www.nanowrimo.org and register for an account and create your profile. This is completely and totally free. NaNo is supported mostly by donati
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That time of year has come upon us again. No, I’m not talking about Halloween, or Thanksgiving, or any of the holidays. No, no, I’m talking about something much more important – NaNoWriMo!
What exactly is NaNoWriMo, you ask? Well, I’m so glad you asked.
Here let me tell you…
NAtional NOvel WRIting MOnth
NaNoWriMo, get it? Okay, according to the site, that is pronounced: NAN-no WRY-Mo. Most authors I know who are participating have come to just call it NaNo. It comes in the month of November, every year since 1999. So what exactly IS NaNoWriMo?
Every year in October, www.nanowrimo.org opens up for new subscriptions for eager novel writers to challenge themselves by writing a novel of at least 50,000 words during the month of November. There’s a catch though – you can’t start writing the actual novel until 12:01 your local time, November 1, and you must be finished with the novel by the end of the month. Now, the novel is not limited to 50K words, but to ‘win’ the NaNoWriMo Challenge, you must not only write at least 50K words, but you must also finish the novel.
There is a list of author’s who have actually had their NaNoWriMo novel published, and many people who wrote novels for NaNo and went on to self publish.
So what’s the point to it all?
Well, for someone who has never published an novel, NaNoWriMo provides a great motivation, in a fun environment, with lots of other aspiring authors to support an encourage one another and finally tap out that novel that we all think we have dwelling inside of us. For the experienced or published author, NaNoWriMo really gives the author a nice challenge, by adding a deadline environment, accountability and a means for checking progress. This can help an author who has been tossing around ideas for their next book really dig in and push the creativity out of them.
The first thing you do is visit the website at www.nanowrimo.org and register for an account and create your profile. This is completely and totally free. NaNo is supported mostly by donati
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Every year in October, www.nanowrimo.org opens up for new subscriptions for eager novel writers to challenge themselves by writing a novel of at least 50,000 words during the month of November. There’s a catch though – you can’t start writing the actual novel until 12:01 your local time, November 1, and you must be finished with the novel by the end of the month. Now, the novel is not limited to 50K words, but to ‘win’ the NaNoWriMo Challenge, you must not only write at least 50K words, but you must also finish the novel.
There is a list of author’s who have actually had their NaNoWriMo novel published, and many people who wrote novels for NaNo and went on to self publish.
So what’s the point to it all?
Well, for someone who has never published an novel, NaNoWriMo provides a great motivation, in a fun environment, with lots of other aspiring authors to support an encourage one another and finally tap out that novel that we all think we have dwelling inside of us. For the experienced or published author, NaNoWriMo really gives the author a nice challenge, by adding a deadline environment, accountability and a means for checking progress. This can help an author who has been tossing around ideas for their next book really dig in and push the creativity out of them.
The first thing you do is visit the website at www.nanowrimo.org and register for an account and create your profile. This is completely and totally free. NaNo is supported mostly by donati
For many years, when a freelance graphic designer chose a new computer, Macintosh was the automatic choice. Macintosh computers provided the memory, processing speed and storage necessary for large design files. Most graphic design firms and printing companies used only Macintosh computers. Today, that trend continues but PCs are making inroads in what used to be territory exclusive to Macintosh. Therefore, the decision on what computer to purchase is not as clear cut as it once was for graphic designers.Hardware is the first consideration of most freelance designers. While PCs have been proven to rival Macs in terms of processing speed, some people claim that Macs still process large graphic files more efficiently. Also, Macintosh computers have a better maintenance record than most PCs. However, when a hardware problem does arise a Mac can cost more to repair.Software is where the Macintosh shines compared to the PC. All the
There is a list of author’s who have actually had their NaNoWriMo novel published, and many people who wrote novels for NaNo and went on to self publish.
So what’s the point to it all?
Well, for someone who has never published an novel, NaNoWriMo provides a great motivation, in a fun environment, with lots of other aspiring authors to support an encourage one another and finally tap out that novel that we all think we have dwelling inside of us. For the experienced or published author, NaNoWriMo really gives the author a nice challenge, by adding a deadline environment, accountability and a means for checking progress. This can help an author who has been tossing around ideas for their next book really dig in and push the creativity out of them.
The first thing you do is visit the website at www.nanowrimo.org and register for an account and create your profile. This is completely and totally free. NaNo is supported mostly by donati
During my experience, I've always felt that marketing promotions were applied but seldom very well.In my honest opinion - and I always like to inform my clients this - marketing promotions should only be done for special purposes. Guerrilla marketing can work wonders depending on the product you're selling, but the marketing promotion must meet ones needs. Just going out into a public square and holding a contest or giving away a product will not generate any business for you at all. You need to think "outside the box" and most important of all, strategically.One of my all time favorite venues to offer marketing promotions is at nightclubs and pubs. When people are drinking alcohol, they will try their hardest to win anything. Whether you are giving away shot glasses, food, drink mixers, or just T-shirts, people will get excited about your marketing promotion. If they get to come home with a souvenir for their efforts, they wi
So what’s the point to it all?
Well, for someone who has never published an novel, NaNoWriMo provides a great motivation, in a fun environment, with lots of other aspiring authors to support an encourage one another and finally tap out that novel that we all think we have dwelling inside of us. For the experienced or published author, NaNoWriMo really gives the author a nice challenge, by adding a deadline environment, accountability and a means for checking progress. This can help an author who has been tossing around ideas for their next book really dig in and push the creativity out of them.
The first thing you do is visit the website at www.nanowrimo.org and register for an account and create your profile. This is completely and totally free. NaNo is supported mostly by donati
Are you sitting down? Because I'm about to tell you something that may shock you. There are as many varieties of business opportunities online as there are off.It's funny how a misconception can float around like a hotair balloon. Until you poke a hole in it. If someone were to tell you that dentistry is the only possible offline profession available, you'd know they were misinformed. And you wouldn't hesitate to fill them in on the opportunities in law and accounting and medicine and the like.Yet 'online business' has come to mean a single mysterious process involving unknowable codes, such as HTML and java script, and, of course, such esoteric marketing strategies as the infamous PPC.Well, don't let all those weird letter combinations keep you from the truth: there's an online business that's not only right for you, but one that you can actually master before you're ready to cash in on your 401K. Or Social Secu
The first thing you do is visit the website at www.nanowrimo.org and register for an account and create your profile. This is completely and totally free. NaNo is supported mostly by donations. After you have created your account and profile you can join the user forums and discussion groups, also free, and get to meet other authors taking the challenge this year. Last year, NaNo boasted an impressive 59,000 participants, which means you potentially have 59,000 other writers all there to cheer you on.
In addition to the website, many areas in the US have local NaNo meetings with other participants in close physical proximity. The group in my area met regularly during October and November at the local Starbucks.
Now, after you have created your profile, have added all your writing buddies, joined a local group to track progress by your area, you are now ready to prepare to write your novel. Now, remember, the rules say you can’t start until November 1, on the actual writing, but there are many things you can do to prepare.
Below is my self-help list for preparing for NaNoWriMo (btw, I was a NaNo ‘winner’ last year too):
1. Buy lots of coffee.
If coffee is not your caffeine of choice, then buy lots of whatever is. Fifty thousand words is much more than most realize. Think about this, most articles on sites like Associated Content are only about 600-1000 words long. That means you will be writing, on the upper end, the equivalent of about 84 articles in one month’s time, but with a plot and story line, hopefully, that should be consistent and flow together well. That might just mean some late nights, and coffee is a staple!
2. Buy a plastic shower cap.
When it is 2am, two days before Thanksgiving, your entire family coming to visit, and you are only 30,000 word into your NaNo novel, you will need to place this shower cap on your head in order to remind
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