181: #NaWhateverWriMo

Maybe you’re drafting a novel, maybe you’re not. Either way, we vote for seizing on the community energy generated by NaNo and getting some work done. The magic of NaNoWriMo isn’t in the number of words or the length of time or even the month of November. It’s in the community seizing this time—when we could so easily heave a giant sigh and say oh, well, November, it’s practically December, might as well give up—and instead bestowing upon it this extra energy, turning it into a holiday of our very own. We’re all for writing a 50K word novel (and there’s much advice in this episode on prepping for just that) but we’re also in favor of creating your own National Whatever Write Month. Pick your poison, name your deadline and join us in taking back November. Episode links and a transcript follow—but first, a preview of the #WritersTopFive that will be dropping into #AmWriting supporter inboxes on Monday, October 21, 2019: Top 5 Ways to Tame the Internet Distraction Beast . Support the podcast you love AND get weekly #WriterTopFives with actionable advice you can use for just $7 a month. Upgrade to Supporter As always, this episode (and every episode) will appear for all subscribers in your usual podcast listening places, totally free as the #AmWriting Podcast has always been. This shownotes email is free, too, so please—forward it to a friend, and if you haven’t already, join our email list and be on top of it with the shownotes and a transcript every time there’s a new episode. Get New Episode Emails To support the podcast and help it stay free, subscribe to our weekly #WritersTopFive email. LINKS FROM THE PODCAST Junior NaNoWriMo Jennie Nash method for finding your thru line and your roadmap for writing useful words (because we’ve all written our way to finding the story, and we don’t particularly recommend it): The Inside Outline Download (formerly known as the Two-Tier, but don’t worry, this is it.) Character development resources: Episode 180 #CharacterEnneagramRabbitHole The Emotional Wound Thesaurus: A Writer’s Guide to Psychological Trauma , Angela Ackerman & Becca Puglisi Take Off Your Pants!: Outline Your Books for Faster, Better Writing , Libbie Hawker FabulaDeck.com Episode 75: #NovelPreparations #AmReading (Watching, Listening) KJ: The Lager Queen of Minnesota , J. Ryan Stradal Jess: Boys & Sex: Young Men on Hookups, Love, Porn, Consent, and Navigating the New Masculinity , Peggy Orenstein Ready or Not: Preparing Our Kids to Thrive in an Uncertain and Rapidly Changing World , Madeline Levine #FaveIndieBookstore Print: A Bookstore , Portland, Maine, which does not look like this in October but soon will. Sigh. This episode was sponsored by Author Accelerator, the book coaching program that helps you get your work DONE. Visit https://www.authoraccelerator.com/amwriting for details, special offers and Jennie Nash’s Inside-Outline template. Find more about Jess here , Sarina here and about KJ here . If you enjoyed this episode, we suggest you check out Marginally, a podcast about writing, work and friendship . The image in our podcast illustration is by chmyphotography on Unsplash . No transcript this week as our transcription help is off. If you’d like to see one, check back sometime next week.