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Are you participating in NaNo this year? Not sure what NaNo is? NaNoWriMo stands for National Novel Writing Month, which I will shorten to NaNo here, during NaNo, the idea is to challenge yourself to write 50,000 words in just 30 days – that’s not as scary as it sounds as it only works out to 1,667 words per day, which I usually find to be around 2 pages of typed words in size 11 font, on an A4 page (could be more or less depending on the font\/size\/page size you use), find out more, or sign up here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This year things have become rather crazy, but I am still going to try to hit my target of 50,000 words by the end of 30th November!<\/p>\n

I have found that there are a few things that help me to hit my target – one of them is having a bit of time on my hands (which I am struggling with this year at present), I have this year found that NaNo does not fit in well with having a full-time job AND doing my masters full-time as well, plus moving this month and now being ill! But hey ho, I am still going for it!<\/p>\n

I also think that this year is a little trickier as I have not planned anything! I hadn’t a clue what to even call my work so I could register it on the NaNo website, but the characters inside seemed to take over on that front and told me to call it “Disengage” – I am now finding out about what they want to do as I go along – I am not finding this very conducive this year at all!<\/p>\n

If you’ve taken part before, what have you found most helpful and what has completely interfered your plans of success?<\/p>\n

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Some of my NaNo essentials:<\/p>\n