Can you draft a novel in a month and not end up with a mess of words that are going nowhere? You can—if you’ve done your prep. Superstar guest Sarina Bowen about what you need to do before #NaNoWriMo in one of our top four episodes. What does your character want and need, and what train is heading straight for their world? When you know who you’re writing about, what they fear most and how—at least vaguely—your story is going to force them to fact that fear, you’re ahead of the game (and you didn’t need to outline a thing, if outlining is perhaps the thing
75: #NovelPreparations
75: #NovelPreparations
75: #NovelPreparations
Can you draft a novel in a month and not end up with a mess of words that are going nowhere? You can—if you’ve done your prep. Superstar guest Sarina Bowen about what you need to do before #NaNoWriMo in one of our top four episodes. What does your character want and need, and what train is heading straight for their world? When you know who you’re writing about, what they fear most and how—at least vaguely—your story is going to force them to fact that fear, you’re ahead of the game (and you didn’t need to outline a thing, if outlining is perhaps the thing