Storyfix.com NaNoWriMo Guide

Larry Brooks, over at www.storyfix.com , has a great blog focused on writing. This month, October 2011, he is writing a post a day about NaNoWriMo and there are some great jems in there. So, for posterity sake, because his site is hard to navigate, and to make sure I can find it again, I am pasting links to all 31 of his posts…just so I can read them in order.

A Radical NaNoWriMo Opportunity

1 | Nail Your NaNoWriMo

2 | Keep Your Character Close to Home

3 | Vet and Fertilize Your Story Idea

4 | Tell Your Story In Context To Something

5 | Don’t Forget to Fall in Love

6 | Filling Out The Big Picture

7 | The Most Important Moment In Your Story

8 | Why and How Your First 12 to 15 Scenes Are Different

9 | Take A Hike

10 | Specifics On How To Plan Your Story

11 | Cast Your Story With Familiar Faces

12 | May The Forces Be With You

13 | Begin To Write It Down

14 | Surrender To The Process

15 | Stuck? Try This and Move Forward

16 | Consider An Arena Story

17 | Learn From Others Who Have Been Down This Road

18 | Don’t Confuse Quirks With Characterization

19 | Center Yourself In The Big Picture

20 | To Edit, Or Not Edit

21 | Still Struggling With A Concept

22 | Stare Down Your Limiting Beliefs

23 | Harness The Power of Resentment

24 | Sharpen Your Hook

25 | A Strategy For Introducing Your Hero

26 | The Pansters Solution To Story Planning

27 | How To Optimize Your Scenes

28 | Don’t Allow The Parts Or The Process To Smother The Whole

29 | Six Tools To Rescue Or Beef Up Your Beat Sheet

30 | On Sub-plots, Sub-Text, and Submarines

31 | Into The Abyss