Next month is National Novel Writing Month. Are you ready?<\/p>\n
I suppose a better first question is actually “Are you going to participate?” I, for example, am not. I tried it once, several years ago, but ever since then I’ve just been too busy, and too out of practice writing fiction, to try it again. But, I do think about it every year when it rolls around. This year, rather than post things like story starters during NaNoWriMo, I thought I’d post them before, giving the brave souls who are up for the attempt a running start. So, here we go!<\/p>\n
First, of course, I’m going to suggest the Fantasist.net Writer’s Resources<\/a>, because if I can’t promote my own site, what good is having one? On that page you’ll find links to my Story Starter<\/a>, my World Building Resources<\/a> and my sad, old Conlang page<\/a>. Though for conlang resources, I’d suggest going to the Language Construction Kit at Zompist.com<\/a> or V\u00dclg\u00c5r, a language generator<\/a>, which is everything I wanted mine to be and more. In fact, I actually paid the roughly $10 to get the bigger, better version and upgrades! Second, though, I’d like to suggest the Bookbaby NaNoWriMo Survival Guide<\/a>, which has several links to helpful resources, mostly on their site, including some information about publishing your book if you’re a NaNoWriMo “winner” at the end of the month! Thirdly, if you haven’t read it, No Plot, No Problem!<\/a>, which is the original guide to National Novel Writing Month by the founder, and a great way to get your thirty day novel writing experiment launched.<\/p>\n
\nThose resources sure ought to be enough to get you started on most of the crunchy stuff you might need to get an idea and prepared for writing a novel, if you aren’t already.<\/p>\n
\nAlso, while you’re getting ready, you can read through Medium’s coverage of NaNoWriMo<\/a>, which I’m assuming they’ll do again.<\/p>\n