200k Words for NANOWRIMO This year! Whoot!!!
I may not have accomplished a whole lot this month, other than basic household stuff and cooking... but I hit TWICE my goal for nanowrimo!
I finished two more books this month and added to two others.
I completed TWICE what my goal was for the month and ended at 200k.
This month I started and finished:
❄️Cozy Paranormal Romance about a Shifter... except he's not a cool shifter, he turns into a freaking housecat. This is a story that definitely doesn't take itself too seriously!
❄️Second Romance in a series. It follows my book Merry's Christmas Miracle
❄️A full-length erotica novel
PLUS: Finished another full-length erotica novel that I had already started last month
Added a bunch of words to my fantasy series (that I may or may not release as episodes for a while)
What Works for Me
❄️Sprints. I set the timer for 20-30 minutes and just type. I write between 3k-4k an hour, depending on which genre I'm writing in, how strong the 'mojo' is that day.
❄️10k a Day challenge group. I never would have made it without this group. It just helped push me over the edge on days when I didn't want to write.
❄️NaNoWriMo tracking charts. I became a little obsessive about that little line on the chart, especially after being so inconsistent for the first half of the month! I want to find some charting/graphing sites or something because that visual worked SO Much better for me than just my spreadsheets.
HEALTH THINGS:
Obviously I was sitting and typing a LOT this month (none of this was dictation since I haven't tried that yet.) I was having a lot of shoulder/wrist pain for a while, so I started adding in a few minutes of stretching between EVERY 20-minute sprint.
That helped tremendously, BUT the thing that changed it all was using the fasciablaster on my arms, shoulders, chest, and back. HOLY BEANS. That was literally my saving grace. It made me feel like new again!
Now it's onto December which will be writing a few reader magnets to build new lists for my new genres, editing, creating covers and studying ads. My drafts are fairly clean, but I will need to run them through Grammarly before having another editor look them over for other plot-centric things.
I really want to release at least a book a month in 2020, but only once I have a budget for ads!
I can NOT thank @mariannewest enough for the lifechanging freewrite group. Her encouragement and daily prompts literally changed everything for me. The weekend freewrites helped me to step up my game and forced my brain to write without constantly worrying about what would happen next. It was a game changer for me.
Wow @byn
When I grow up I want to be just like you
That’s amazing
Congratulations
Thank you! Now comes the hard part, the 'boring' marketing, editing and all that. :( I really dislike doing that part.
Holy smokes Byn, you're smoking hot this month! Great job, 2 books finished?? wow. Hey, what is a fasciablaster?
Two books finished and two more going strong. I also have two others started, but I didn't work on them this month. If I could just stick to ONE genre, I'd be doing so much better financially, but I guess I haven't found my 'thing' quite yet!
I've used one before and for me, it helps ease body aches, tight muscles and the ridiculously annoying carpal tunnel issues I have.
Fasciablaster: https://www.ashleyblackguru.com/
Howdy again Byn! well, you must have the most creative, imaginative mind to have all those stories going at the same time! It's astounding to me. Thanks so much for that link, I've never heard of such a tool or apparatus, it looks amazing!
Amazing job! I did NaNo in 2015 and 2016 and it was a blast to be able to make it to the word count goal
I'm glad to read about your huge success.
Stretching is definitely important! I wish I had that fasciablaster. Sounds awesome.
I am so sorry to have completely missed your nanowrimo entries! I very happy, however, that you feel you have more than succeeded. That does not suck.
And boy do I agree about @mariannewest. She and @freewritehouse changed my life for the much better too, and I was not even a writer at the time. Now, I can't stop.
Exactly! The freewrites totally changed my trajectory!
Yeah, I plan on publishing everything I wrote during nanowrimo, so those words will be showing up in several novels over the next year!
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