The Pyrenees---Southern France

The Pyrenees---Southern France

Wednesday, November 16, 2011

More NaNoWriMo Tips

          Every day, I learn something as NaNoWriMo progresses. And I want you to benefit from my experiences. Here are some handy lessons if you want to be sure and succeed at crossing that 50,000 word finish line on November 30:


1.  Contractions are bad.  Do not use them under any circumstances. (Use the more formal two-word version instead, to increase your word count.)


2.  If you really want to make a strong point, say "very, very, very, very, very, very..." The rules are 50,000 words. No one said they can't be the same 50,000 words.


3.  I cut and pasted a few lines of a Joni Mitchell song (The Last Time I Saw Richard) into my story.  Accidentally, the whole song popped into place. I looked at my word count increase a great deal, with just a few clicks. Figuring "more is better," I cut and pasted all of the Blue album into my story. And eventually, all of Joni's song lyrics got embedded in my novel. Next are the songs of Zamfir...


If anyone else has some helpful tidbits, please send them my way! I'm still way behind...







5 comments:

  1. Great tips! And you may quote me in your book when I say, "Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha...!!!"

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  2. How many times did you mention me me me me me?

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  3. Use a lot of adjectives and adverbs and throw in these words a lot: very, just, little, that, so. Oh, and use proper names all the time rather than pronouns. Give you characters long, names.
    Donna

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  4. Now Sioux, actually if you have read the NaNo rules, you can't use the same word 50,000 times, so sorry sorry sorry sorry, you'll have to eliminate your rule number two two two two. Do you hear hear hear me?

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