{"id":977,"date":"2013-12-03T19:52:49","date_gmt":"2013-12-04T00:52:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/?p=977"},"modified":"2013-12-05T08:09:21","modified_gmt":"2013-12-05T13:09:21","slug":"tips-for-nano-succhttpwww-bluecandlesociety-netwp-adminedit-phpess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/?p=977","title":{"rendered":"Tips for Nano Success"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"2013-Winner-Vertical-Banner\"<\/a>As someone who is now a four-time NaNoWriMo winner, I thought I should pass along some tips and tricks for others who might like to emulate my success.\u00a0 My primary piece of wisdom from this year is that an ugly win is still a win.\u00a0 In the past, I have taken a certain amount of pride in my smooth, workmanlike approach to nano, and the wonderful graphs that come out of it<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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\"nanostats2-300x250\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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Sadly, due to a bit of a personal crisis right at the end of the month, 2013’s progress looked like this:<\/p>\n

\"nonoProg_2013\"<\/p>\n

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My personal problems are writ throughout that last bit of the graph, where it gets all wobbly.\u00a0 But I won, and\u00a0 am now the proud possessor of an amorphous word-blob of approximately 50,000 units, which with a bunch of rewrites and maybe another 40,000 words, may be a book someday.\u00a0 So how did I do it?\u00a0 A few tips:<\/p>\n

1. Visualize success.\u00a0 If you believe you’ll reach 50,000 words, you will!<\/p>\n

2. Sentences like “Man, this scene went off the rails.\u00a0 Fix it later, if possible.\u00a0 I suck.” count toward the 50k<\/p>\n

3. So do long, rambling half-assed outlines of where the plot is going that stretch on for several pages, in a pinch<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As someone who is now a four-time NaNoWriMo winner, I thought I should pass along some tips and tricks for others who might like to emulate my success.\u00a0 My primary piece of wisdom from this year is that an ugly win is still a win.\u00a0 In the past, I have taken a certain amount of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-writing-things"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}