Comments on: NaNoWriMo—A Two-Pronged Attack

By: Jordan

Jordan — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 14:49:50 +0000

I’m so glad to be part of your arsenal of books! Congrats and hoorays for doing NanoWriMo. I’ve done it a number of times and always been glad I did.

Hooray
J

By: Shonna Slayton

Shonna Slayton — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 03:11:40 +0000

Shauna,

I’m glad you are enjoying our Preparing for NaNoWriMo series. It’s helping us all get ready!

Ah, yes, your careful reading sees that I’m writing a historical–much research is needed! The good news is Karen’s steps have you spending 7 days focusing on research. So, I’ve already done enough reading about some of the key points I needed to know about the late 40s to at least get started in November.

The photo with my blog is my stack of NaNo prep books. It’s actually a pretty tall stack! Some of those are history books. I figure as I’m writing in November if I don’t know something I’ll flag it with triple question marks (???) so I can do a quick search and come back to it later.

By: Shauna Roberts

Shauna Roberts — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 23:21:33 +0000

Thanks for all the helpful hints you’ve been running.

I noticed that even though your novel is set in 1948, your plan contains no time or reading matter for collecting background info. How will you work that into NaNoWrMo?

By: Melissa Blue

Melissa Blue — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 20:39:23 +0000

Thanks for running this series. I now have a starting point for the ms I’m going to write.

By: Shanna Swendson

Shanna Swendson — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 19:37:05 +0000

I’m a big fan of giving myself inspiration before I start a new project. I like to do a little “retreat” to watch movies that either remind me of the project, star actors I’ve mentally “cast” in the book, or are in settings like I plan to use. It’s a fun way to get myself in the right frame of mind.