text: October 29, 2015 By julaina 3 Comments
  I have participated in NaNoWriMo for the past several years. I succeeded in creating first drafts of four novels. After months of revisions, two of them are in a drawer waiting for an unknown audience, one is being posted on this site (see Hada's Fog in the menu above,) and one I'm working with the second draft.
  Having time to write 50,000 words in a month might seem daunting, but if the word count is broken down, it's about 1600 words a day. Manageable, right? Remember you are not stopping to revise. It's like free writing only you are following your plot or maybe your characters are dictating to you. Send your inner critic to the Bahamas, it can return on December 1st. Here are some stats from http://www.pressdemocrat.com/
  – The first official year of NaNoWriMo was in 2000, when the event had an actual website.
  – By 2001, 5000 people signed up.
  – In 2014, 175,002 people signed up, and 40,325 crossed the finish line with 50K.
  – "The Great Gatsby," by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  – "Of Mice and Men," by John Steinbeck
  – "Fahrenheit 451," by Ray Bradbury
  – "The Notebook," by Nicholas Sparks
  – "Water for Elephants," by Sara Gruen
  – "The Night Circus," by Erin Morgenstern
  – "Wool," by Hugh Howey
  – "Cinder," by Marissa Meyer
  Filed Under: NaNoWriMo Tagged With: Fifty thousand words in November, Julaina Kleist-Corwin, NaNoWriMo, NATIONAL Novel Writing Month
  November 2, 2014 By julaina Leave a Comment
  Filed Under: NaNoWriMo Tagged With: Hada's Fog, Julaina Kleist-Corwin, NaNoWriMo, NATIONAL Novel Writing Month, Norman in the Painting, writing