I have a lot of action scenes in my NaNo project this year. By action, I mean fight scenes, high stakes drama. I’m trying to

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I have a lot of action scenes in my NaNo project this year. By action, I mean fight scenes, high stakes drama. I’m trying to
One thing that keeps happening to me as I write is a scene needs to become two scenes. Or even three scenes. If only one
Even though I outlined in Preptober, I decided to kill off one of my characters. Rather violently. I think I had a bad day at
As I plan and write scenes, one thing I do is what I call the ‘outside’ action and also the ‘inside’ action. During Preptober, I
One practice I’ve put into play with NaNo 22 is writing sprints. I’ve done them in the past, but I pretty much use them exclusively
Life must go on, even during NaNoWriMo. Some participants have kids. Some have spouses. Some have full time jobs. Some have hobbies they put on