Something I've been asked recently is how to actually come up with ideas for the scenes in your book. Lots of us start off with this tiny seed of an idea, and go on to flesh it out with some main characters and a basic plot.
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I make a plan for just about every piece of writing I do. For a blog post, it's often just a series of bullet pointed notes or a few key headings to direct my writing, but for a full novel it's a much more in depth outline of the plot and characters.
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30 days of writing, 50,000 words - impossible? It does sound totally overwhelming, but taking part in NaNoWriMo is one of the fastest ways to go from 0 words to a finished first draft.
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