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OCTOBER CHALLENGE: 30 days to prepare to write your book!

9/4/2015

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So you have this idea - or you've had this life-changing experience - and you know it would make a great novel or memoir. But how do you get from the idea to a completed manuscript?

Maybe last November you entered NaNoWriMo, hoping it would give you the encouragement to get your book written, but you didn't get nearly as much done as you hoped? How can you improve your writing speed this year? Take this challenge and I guarantee you will be able to compose your first draft in a fraction of the time.
 
Whether you write fiction or memoir, what you need is not only encouragement, but a clear plan, a blueprint for writing your book. Only you can write that blueprint - but I can walk you through the steps. In fact, we can all do it  together, because I have a novel to write in November, too, and just like you, I have to be ready.


Each day of October, I will post a new challenge relating to your writing project. There will be a logical order to these challenges, each one building on the previous one, so that by the end of the month you will be ready to write your breakout novel or memoir.

Call it InOcPlaMo - International October Planning Month. Why join? Because when we're done at the end of October, we are all going to ROCK NaNoWriMo! And if you're not into NaNoWriMo, you will still be able to write the best first draft you've ever written in way less time than it used to take you.

Leave your name and email address in a comment below this post if you're IN (or use my comment form on my contact page if you prefer).

Whether you plan on participating in NaNoWriMo or just want some help turning your idea into a great story, join me right here every day in October and watch your idea grow into the blueprint for a great book.
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9/11/2015 02:01:05 am

Jane Ann - love the idea. I'll def be checking in as much as I can. Not 100% sure which novel I want to map, but want to read your posts for ideas for sure! Thank you.

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9/14/2015 02:35:14 am

I've always wanted to join NaNoWriMo and become a published author someday. However, as you so aptly pointed out, I have no clear plans as to how get things done. I'd like to think of myself as Samuel Taylor Coleridge, where I can start things out but never really be as prolific as his counterparts. But then that's me doing wishful thinking. Anyway, I'll do my best to have the discipline to participate in this challenge. Maybe I'll get at least one story done and have it critiqued in a workshop.

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