| If you have ever authored an e-book, then you | | | | happens every November, where each writer |
| know when you are writing about a nonfiction | | | | pledges to write a 50,000 word novel in less than |
| subject which is your area of expertise, it's very | | | | 30 days? It's true, and the contest is called; The |
| easy to write it quickly. In fact, I never realized | | | | NaNoWriMo Challenge. Is the NaNoWriMo really a |
| how easy it was to write a book, until I started | | | | challenge? Is writing a 50,000+ word novel in 30 |
| writing e-books about subjects that I was | | | | days really that difficult? When I first looked at |
| intimately acquainted with. Writing an e-book in 72 | | | | this challenge, I thought to myself, it would be |
| hours is not difficult at all, especially if it is only 50 | | | | easy, and therefore, I decided not to participate it. |
| or so pages, with graphics and chapter headings; | | | | You see, I once wrote a 247 page nonfiction |
| perhaps, only 36,000 to 45,000 words or so. | | | | book in five days, and so a 50,000 word novel in |
| Indeed, it often seems that the editing takes | | | | 30 days, seems rather like a piece of cake. But I |
| twice or three times as long as actually writing | | | | assure you writing a good novel, or a decent |
| the thing. But what if you are writing a fictional | | | | work in 30 days is not easy. Of course, in this |
| work or a novel where you have to develop the | | | | particular contest, you are not supposed to worry |
| characters, think about the plot, and create the | | | | about how good the novel is, or worry about the |
| story as you went? Maybe you have a story in | | | | editing. The goal is just to get you to write, and |
| your mind that you would like to write, but it is | | | | write a lot. Perhaps, this might be a good |
| more of just a scenario now, and you'd really | | | | challenge for you; maybe you should look it up on |
| have to develop it. If so could you do it in one | | | | the Internet and find out more. Please consider all |
| month? | | | | this. |
| Did you know there is a writing contest that | | | | |