A drafting process that works for one might not work for another. However, NaNoWriMo can be a great time to experiment and see what writing process works for us.

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What Styles of Drafting Work for You?

Writing prompts can help with inspiration or creativity, or distract us from the writing we’re “supposed to” do. How can we make them more helpful to us?

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Writing Prompts: Helpful? Or a Waste of Time? — Guest: Savannah Cordova

Suffering from writer’s block? Lisa Bell shares the brain science behind what causes writer’s block and gives us “brain hacks” we can use to beat it.

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What Is Writers Block (Really) and How Can We Beat It? — Guest: Lisa Bell

The Scrivener drafting programs helps writers track daily word count and hit targets, but it’s not always intuitive. Scrivener expert Gwen Hernandez is sharing her Scrivener tips for NaNoWriMo, including how to compile our draft—one of the trickiest aspects of Scrivener.

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How to Use Scrivener for NaNoWriMo — Guest: Gwen Hernandez

One the first day of NaNoWriMo, Pacale Kavanagh share insights and advice on how meditation can help our mindfulness to better focus, ignore distractions, and turbocharge our productivity.

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Writer Productivity: Who Needs a Magic Wand? — Guest: Pascale Kavanagh

To make NaNo work for us, we need to figure out our goals for the experience—and there’s no wrong answer. However, if our goal is to create a coherent story, we should try to understand story structure.

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NaNo Prep: Is Your Story Idea Ready?

To make NaNo work for us, we need to figure out our goals for the experience—and there’s no wrong answer. However, if our goal is to create a coherent story, we should try to understand story structure.

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NaNo Prep: Getting a Handle on Our Story

In situations where we want to improve—such as writing—we focus our time on analyzing our weaknesses, and that’s necessary to identify how we can reach the next level of expertise. But at the same time, if we fail to recognize our strengths, we might suffer in several ways.

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What Are Your Writing Strengths?

Are there prerequisites to call ourselves a writer? No. If you write, you’re a writer. Period. But when we pay attention to other writers, every writer—no matter how successful—could find something to feel inadequate about if we let our self-doubt get a hold of us.

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Do You Meet the Prerequisites to Be a Writer?