What is NaNoWriMo?
Your question answered

So you’re thinking about participating in the Fifty Thousand Word Grind, in fact, you’re excited about it, perhaps a little nervous even. Don’t worry, I am too. But I’m here to help you through the NaNo jitters and plan out a novel that you can be proud of have finished in a month.

Let’s face it, the goal of NaNoWriMo is to be able to say: I have finished a novel length project. It’s not about writing the next great epic but about crossing that (largely arbitrary) 50k line. It’s a goal, you want to reach it, you have no idea how. Where do you even start? How do you eat this giant 50,000 word literary elephant?!
One bite at a time.

It's all about support:
For November I will be putting together a tracking list and a weekly supportive survey for your NaNo needs.
Depending on how many people we have participate, I'll divide people up into groups that include both veterans and virgins and (ideally) divided into genera groups as well.

This support mechanism will allow you to bounce ideas off each other, work through blocks, get out of sticky spots and keep motivated. We will troubleshoot any issues you have at any time (time is, after all, a factor here) and get you guys on your way to your goal.
To sign up all you have to do is send ^StJoan a note of intent and what genre you will be attempting!
Sounds easy year?


Below is a list of links and helpful deviations that can get you prepared for the grind so that there are as few glitches and nasty surprises as possible.

Want to add to this list?
During the month of November, I encourage you to write up helpful tips and tricks for prose writers and novelists alike. Help out your fellow writers!
And they don't have to be big news articles either! Just send me your tidbits via note and if they're really good I'll post them in my journal along with a small feature of your work!
Yeah!

Don't have any tips or tricks but want to encourage others? You can!! Comment in my NaNoWriMo Journals! If they encouragement is really motivating, it too will find a place in my next journal update.

Both tips and encouragement will be part of a running list, which means if you contribute advice and get a feature early--it will be up for the WHOLE MONTH. That's some decent exposure, no? Get in fast and early! Time is a factor!!


The Process:

The Writing Process

How To Write

layman's Guide to Storytelling

Vonnegut's Eight Rules of Writing Fiction

Beginners' Four Faults

How to Write a Novel: The Snowflake Method

Plot:

Effectively Outlining your Plot

Plot and Narrative: The Twin rails of the Novel

Avoiding Exposition Pitfalls

What is conflict?


Losing the Plot?

Elements:

The Beginning

The Middle

The End

Details, Details

Dialouge Tags

Dialogue: The best action

Character:

Developing Realistic Characters

Caricature vs Character

Describing your Characters through their actions

Problems with names and how to avoid them

The Dreaded Block

-ROAD CLOSED-: Writer's Block

Tip of the Week: Writer's Block

Tool Kits (Thank you *ProsePlease )

Writer's Toolkit Parts 1-3

**** Finishing Your Novel ****


(Special Thanks to ^lovetodeviate for her work on Resource Central, *Writers-Workshop, and *ProsePlease for their outstanding work in gathering and posting and updating massive resource lists. If you're not +watching them all, you are missing out, I assure you.)


NaNo Inspired Features: