Do Your Own 50K Novel

The National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) website may be going inactive, but the spirit of NaNoWriMo does not have to die.

It’s an opportunity for writers who have participated in the past to write their own fifty-thousand words in thirty days. And it can be any month they want. And they can start on any day of the month and write for thirty days consecutively.

At least that’s my opinion.

So, I made a decision.

I’m going to take a break from my current Work-In-Progress (WIP) and do my own NaNoWriMo. But I’m not going to call it that. In my mind, I refer to it as my 50KN (Fifty Thousand Novel).

Why? So the spirit of NaNoWriMo will live on. At least for me.

I love my current WIP, but I think it will be good for me to take a step back for a month. I’m excited about the story, but I need some perspective on it. Working on something else for thirty days is my answer for that.

I’m in the middle of creating characters and making a scene list. I plan to start on the first of next month.

So, if you are ever motivated to do your own fifty thousand word novel, here are some NaNoWriMo alternatives and tools:

• Daily Prompt 
• ExKayEnDay
• FicFan
• FicFrenzy
• 4thewords
• myWriteClub
• NoQuWriCo
• Novel 90 Writing Challenge
• OWL Online Writing Log 
• Pathfinders Writing Collective
• The Reading Room
• Rough Draft Month
• A Round of Words in 80 Days
• Royal Road
• SavvyAuthors
• Shut Up & Write!
• StoryADay
• TrackBear
• WriNow
• Writers’ HQ
• Writing Quests
• ZapWhamPow on Instagram 

More resources for writing your own 50K Novel in a month:

• NaNoWriMo: What Now? Alternative Options for Authors
• No Plot? No Problem! book by Chris Baty

Whether you did NaNoWriMo on your own or in a group, either in-person or online, you can write fifty thousand words anytime you please. The spirit of NaNoWriMo is not with the website, but within each writer.

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