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NaNoWriMo actually has a Twitter account devoted to word sprints that offers prompts like "something unreal" or "waited too long." And then, you just write - for five, 10, 15 minutes, you banish that inner editor, keep your hands on the keys or your pen on the page and let the words come.Įlizabeth Acevedo is one of the writers who found inspiration in NaNoWriMo - you might know her name she won the National Book Award in 2018 for her young adult novel in verse The Poet X, and her new book is Clap When You Land. You get a prompt, and that prompt could be anything - a favorite family picture, a phrase, even just a single word. And that helps open the gates to your creativity, and lets you get the words out without trying to make them all perfect." And NaNoWriMo is all about setting a goal and a deadline. So many people operate with a sense of perfectionism, and they let their inner editor get in the way of their words on the page. "One of the things that makes NaNoWriMo so successful for people in general is that we lower the bar of writing. He also, of course, recommends that you sign up for NaNoWriMo. If you use that time to write, "you can actually get a lot done," Faulkner says. Time confetti is those little absent-minded moments, the little blanks in your day when you're not doing anything. But what almost everyone has is what Faulkner calls "time confetti." I'm also betting most of you don't have, y'know, a perfect sunny nook where you can settle in with a cup of coffee, your favorite pen and your lucky troll doll and spend a few hours cranking out a chapter of the next great American novel. "And so you have to create the conditions to write." He's the executive director of NaNoWriMo. "And someday tends not to happen in life," says Grant Faulkner. Now, I bet a lot of you out there have said to yourselves, I'm gonna write my book someday. Carve out some time to write, and then start writing. So here are six tips that'll help you set pen to paper (or finger to keyboard) and get going on your book. Because the one thing I found out while talking to people for this story is that all you have to do to be a Real Writer is.
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#EVERYONE HAS A STORY BOOKS HOW TO#
November is National Novel Writing Month, or NaNoWriMo, so I decided to talk to some people who've both been there and done that, about how to shut those little voices up and get started on your book. (Or, y'know, that we've only ever written fanfiction.) That no one cares what we have to say, or that we could never write an entire book. But it's equally true that a lot of us have those crummy little inner voices telling us it's never gonna happen. It's kind of a truism that everyone has a book in them, right? We all have some kind of story to tell. To listen to this episode, play the audio at the top of the page or find it here. This story comes from Life Kit, NPR's podcast with tools to help you get it together.