It’s that time of year again … OCTOBER!
And that means … it’s NANOWRIMO TIME! As I will be preparing myself again this year, I thought this would be a good time to give everyone a refresher course on BOOT CAMP!
THAT’S RIGHT! No whining! No excuses! Just write!
OH, so you thought NaNoWriMo started in NOVEMBER, did you!?!
WRONG! NaNoWriMo starts NOW, RIGHT NOW!
The secret to success in this venture is PLANNING!!!
PLANNING, people.
“But I’m a PANTSER!” you say???
NOT THIS MONTH YOU AIN’T!!!!
Writing 50k words of aimless story you’ll just have to rewrite later DOESN’T COUNT.
You don’t want to go through the agony that is NaNoWriMo and then just have to turn around and SCRAP most of what you just sweated and bled!!!
Only newbies jump into NaNo without at least a loose, rough SKETCH of their proposed NOVEL!
And you are NOT a newbie, are you!?!?!? NO YOU ARE NOT!!!!
You are a story-slinging, world-building, character-creating badass muthafucka who eats 3,000 words for breakfast!!!!!
YOU CAN DO THIS THING AND YOU CAN DO IT WITHOUT CRYING EVEN ONCE!!!
“But it’s so haaaaarrrrddd??” you say?!?
BULLSHIT!
GET YOUR SORRY ASS INTO THIS…
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J. R. FRONTERA 
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