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1,000 Words x 60 Days = 1 Manuscript 

12/23/2015

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The cliché is that everyone has a novel inside them, and that very may well be true — I think another truism, however, is that oftentimes that novel is going to stay inside of them. Writing a full-length manuscript is a taxing exercise in endurance. One need only to look at the discarded remains of NaNoWriMo manuscripts to realize that writing a book is tough. Forget about publishing — just getting it out of you is like wringing water from a dry sponge.

Which is why, after another abandoned attempt to complete NaNoWriMo, I set up a different challenge for myself: I would write up a 60,000 word novel* in two months. 1,000 words a day — how hard could that be?

The answer: pretty hard. But not impossible. Here’s how I did it and how you can do it, too. Remember though, the point of this exercise is not to create a full-fledged book in a month. This merely gives you something to work with. It’s a way to get all of your ideas on paper, see what works and fix what doesn’t and show yourself that you can get that novel out.
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With that in mind, read on.

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