September 2019: Get ready to write with NaNo Prep 101

Prepare your novel for November. [National Novel Writing Month]( [Visit the brand new NaNoWriMo website]( NaNo Prep Season is Here! Are you getting ready to write with us this November? Whether this is your first time tackling a novel or your fifteenth, our NaNo Prep 101 Workshop is here to help you get ready to reach your goal. This September and October, we'll provide focused NaNo Prep activities for you to use to dive into your imagination and get to know your story better. By the time November rolls around, we hope you'll be more prepared than ever to reach 50,000 words on your novel draft. [Check out our NaNo Prep 101 materials!]( The NaNo Three Every month, we'll share three of our favorite links from the NaNo-sphere—whether they’re blog articles or awesome pep talks. Check it out. [Designing Fictional Species]( If you're writing about fictional creatures, how do you picture them in your head? Hop into this forums thread to share your method or get some tips. [Video: Get to Know Your Characters]( Want to get to know your characters better? Try dropping them in all sorts of sticky situations to see how they react. We suggest 5 in this video, but try your own! [Brave the Page: Take a Character Field Trip!]( Brave the Page, our brand new handbook for young writers is [available to order](! Check out this sneak peek on taking a character field trip. Check out our NaNoWriMo 2019 "Time Travel" merch! [NaNoWriMo 2019 "Time and Gears" shirt]( Snag some of our steampunk-style, time travel-inspired merch! Remind yourself that your writing can take you anywhere, anytime. Between Typewriter Time Machine posters and Imaginative Airship mugs, this writing gear (featuring lots of gears) will be sure to whisk you away! [Browse our 2019 merch.]( Listen to an episode of the Write-minded podcast. [Write-minded: a podcast with NaNoWriMo and She Writes Press]( Get writing advice on-the-go by subscribing to our podcast. Need some extra inspiration to dive into your current writing project, or start your next one in November? This month, Write-minded podcast features interviews with authors [V.E. Schwab](, [R.O. Kwan](, and more. [Subscribe to the podcast.]( From our sponsors: [Plan your next great novel in Milanote! Organize your research, ideas, characters and outline in one place.]( Wrimo Spotlight ["Having fun is part of what writing is all about! Of course, there will be struggles and obstacles and days when you feel like quitting. However, if you stick to it and let your creative juices flow, you will more than likely end up with something wonderful that you will love and cherish forever!"] [Cassidy Pry headshot] — Cassidy Pry, Young Writers Program participant [Read more.]( What's up, internet! A reader [How to Win NaNo: A Writing Podcast]( — Long-time Wrimos Kristina Horner and Liz Leo host this podcast aimed to get YOU ready to tackle NaNoWriMo this November. [Stop Trash Talking Your First Draft]( — A first draft is part of the creative process. So why call it awful names? (Stopping that habit could lead to a happier writing life!) [Ours Poetica]( — Author John Green and the Chicago Poetry Foundation have started a new YouTube channel to help bring poetry to the people. [On Writing "The Other" and "The Self"]( — NaNoWriMo Writers Board member Daniel José Older shares the fundamentals of respectfully writing from the perspective of characters that aren't you. [Otoniel Borda Garzon's Book Sculptures]( — Old books become craggy mountains and waterway channels in these amazing mixed media sculptures. ["Imaginative Airship" mug]( ["Imaginative Airship" mug]( [NaNoWriMo "20th Anniversary" poster]( ["20th Anniversary" poster]( [Stories Matter. Donate Today.]( National Novel Writing Month 3354 Adeline Street Berkeley, CA 94705 You are receiving this email as a participant interested in receiving the NaNoWriMo newsletter. [Preferences]( | [Unsubscribe](