how do you write a completed novel in 1 month?

Look for Nano in November but there are some less formal Nano followers that do it at differant times all year round.

Script frenzy is ending on wednsday at mid night (that's where you write a 100 page script in a month).

You'd be surprised what you can do for writing in a month if you just commit two hours a day everyday to write like the wind and don't ever use the back space of worry about spelling and grammer.

You increase your editing work that way but you also end up getting more works completed because you bypass the inner critic.

I'm working five scripts for this month and so am proud to say that by wednsday night if all is as Planned I should have over 100,000 words for the month of april and still have taken a few nights off. They are fairly decent stories too. The need a lot of cleaning up but the story is pretty much done on each.

I only work part time, but I have to work around using public access computers that are only available certain times. That and a chronic ailment.

I won't lie, it's work, and to push like I have can make your brain feel like playdough some nights but it's empowering and can get your creativity going even more to try and succeed.

MOving to the Reaching 50k forum.

You can't start writing now. It must be a new novel that you start writing no earlier than November 1.

But you can start planning now. Character sketches, plot ideas, a complete scene-by-scene outline if you like. Just don't start writing the text of the novel.

Also, it isn't strictly necessary that your novel be "completed" in 1 month. What's necessary is that you write at least 50,000 words of it in one month. This may end up being only half of your story, or a third. And it can be the crappiest first draft imaginable.

50,000 words in November breaks down to an average of 1,667 words per day.

Dale

You just write. There's nothing else for it. Plan, if you need to, but I find it more helpful to have a plot helpline--some friends you can call for ideas. Me, I actually finished my novel on November 30, though only 43,000 words or so.

It will be really hard to get a novel done in a month but the thing is, it doesn't have to be done, as long as it's over 50,000 words. Your story could be total crap but as long as its 50k, you can sumbit it and get a certificate through the mail.
I personally will refuse to submit if its crap. I'd be too ashamed to submit. For me, its gotta be great, finished or not. Also, even after you submit, NaNo doesn't contain rights. You can continue writing on it and try to publish it elsewhere.
I guess this website is to just get ppl writing and using their thinking and reasoning skills. It's suppose to be fun. If I have time, I'll try to do soemthing this Nov. Good luck.

That's just it ...If I have time I would love to try this writing for a month thing. No one will read it or proofread it, or steal it? I have a notebook full of ideas for novels, or stories so I just might make notes this summer during vacation time. I love writing so it is not a chore or hard work to write and keep writing.
Has anyone had a novel published from NoNoWriMo?? Where can I buy these novels?

Nobody will be able to see your novel unless you decide to share with other people for proofreading/ comments/ etc.

As far as I know, LuLu gave free copies of their novels to all the writers who won NaNo one year, but they don't do that now, so basically if you want to publish your novel, you'll still have to go through the edit-query-agent-publisher route.

Just a quick note on the submiting and claiming your certificate thing:

The folks at NaNo HQ don't see a single word of your novel. You submit it online to the site's computer word-counter(which will show up around the 25th of Nov.), it counts the words, and gives you your word count. Then it automatically deletes their computer's copy of your novel so that they can't read it. You then get taken to a Winner's Page, and there you can download a sweet certificate PDF and winner's icons. :)

And yep, you don't have to finish your novel, and it most certianly doesn't have to be good. The goal is just 50k words, and this is just the first draft. Editing is for December. (Or March, which is when National Novel Editing Month, NaNoEdMo, takes place.)

Good luck this November! :)

Nobody reads it unless you want them to. Some folks do swaps at the end, or share with their fellow Nanoers locally. No one can steal it because it's not posted anywhere on the site.

If you want a 'finished' novel, I'd suggest creating an outline ahead of time, but pretty much anything goes. I'd definitely plan on some back-up ideas for filler when your brain gets stuck. :)

50K in a month averages out to about 1667 words a day, which isn't bad at all.

If things go true to past years, sometime around September they'll take the forums down for a few days and freshen them up for next year ... but then this is the first year they've had year-round signups so they might not. Anyway, come October the forums REALLY pick back up. You'll find people doing challenges like Word Wars, where you set a time goal and see who can write the most words, or Sprints, where you set a word goal and see who gets there fastest. People will be posting Dares for silly extra ideas, and giving each other feedback on sticky plot points.

Some folks have managed to get Nano novels published, I think there's another part of the forum that people advertise such things in. And I'm thinking there's a part of the FAQ or the press release or something (or maybe it's in the book No Plot No Problem) that has a list of some of those authors. Probably more of them by now.

If you want to find some of the self-published ones, you might browse Lulu.com and see if anyone used Nano or Nanowrimo as a keyword.

Good luck! Nano is a blast.

Quite a few authors who have done NaNoWriMo have been published! (We don't do the publishing, but they are participants!) You can find a list of them here:

http://www.nanowrimo.org/eng/mediakit

It's actually not too hard to write 50, 000 words in a month. It breaks down to 1, 667 words a day which is such an achievable goal it's ridiculous. If you write for two hours a day, you could get 2, 000 words a day and finish a bit early. Or you can write more, and stock up on words for any crises of the writer's block variety or the life variety. You don't have to finish the novel during November, or at all really (though that kind of defeats the purpose), and no one ever has to read it.

You might want to try setting your own goal for yourself during a summer month or something, sort of as a NaNo test run.

It does sound like madness, but the thousands of people who've now written novels through this challenge are proof that it's achievable madness. Highly organised people do it and totally chaotic people do it. Almost anyone can find the time if they really look for that time.

Just keep in mind that people have different goals for NaNoWriMo. Some want to produce a novel that they can go on and polish up and submit for publishing, and others just want to enjoy the madness of it all and write 50 thousand words of crazy characters doing nutty things and will probably never edit a word of it. It doesn't matter, it's about getting 50k words and having fun. It's not specifically about producing amazing novels, it's about creativity, which in most people hasn't got an outlet the rest of the time.

It's good for people who "always wanted to write a novel" and never quite got around to it. For one month that's what you do, get around to it. There's no obligation to continue after November. If the novel is horrible and unsalvageable, big deal, it only took a month. If it took a year and was horrible, you'd feel you wasted a year writing it. A month? Big deal, blow it off, you had a laugh and learnt some new things.

And whatever quality your novel is at the end, it exists. It's 50, or however many thousands of words, and that means if you want to, you can work on it and turn it into something better. Isn't it better to have a not very good novel that you can try and turn into a good one, than not have one at all? You can edit everything except a blank page.