NaNoWriMo: Just Around the Corner

About two weeks ago, it occurred to me that this year’s NaNoWriMo is starting soon. To get myself in the spirit, I poked around and found these posts.

Must-Have Tools for NaNoWriMo from Learn to Write Fiction
NaNoWriMo: How I Create Characters Benjamin Solah has got some great posts on how he prepares for NaNoWriMo, but my favorite so far is how he creates characters.
NaNoWriMo final days prep roundup Angela Booth’s post is 3 years old, but it still has some great resources for writing and word count meters.
NaNoWriMo: Writing with the Bulls An inspirational post by Alegra Clarke, who tells her readers why she enjoys this contest.

Usually by this time, I have some sort of plan sketched out. Not so this year. I had to resort to scouring my writing folder on my hard drive to see if I had any outlines or lists for story ideas. Fortunately, I found an outline that I had discarded last year for Shades of Evil. Time to start planning, plotting and scheming.

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