If the usual beta-reading exchange doesn’t work for us, would a professional professional beta reader be good? What should we look for?

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Professional Beta Readers: What to Expect — Guest: CeCe Downs

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?

This time of year, writers try to get their story idea into shape before the first of November. Here’s some help to get your planning off on the right foot with NaNoWriMo.

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NaNoWriMo Is Coming…Are You Ready?

As a writer we can suffer from the impostor syndrome, feeling like a newbie many times over. But we all have expertise in something, and now’s your chance to help others and share what you know.

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Do You Share Your Expertise?

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

Unless we’re only ever going to write just one book, we need to improve our ability to develop an idea into a story. That means we need to learn how to brainstorm in a productive way.

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How to Use Focused Brainstorming to Develop Our Plot — Guest: Janice Hardy

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?