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No Plot? No Problem!: A Low-Stress, High-Velocity Guide to Writing a Novel in 30 Days

by Chris Baty

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Chris Baty, founder of the wildly successful literary marathon known as National Novel Writing Month, has completely revised and expanded his definitive handbook for extreme noveling. Chris pulls from over 15 years of results-oriented writing experience to pack this compendium with new tips and tricks, ranging from week-by-week quick reference guides to encouraging advice from authors, and much more. His motivating mix of fearless optimism and practical solutions to common excuses gives both first-time novelists and results-oriented writers the kick-start they need to embark on an exhilarating creative adventure.… (more)
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Lots of great tips for NaNoWriMo! This will be my third year of participating and my third book! ( )
  SeaGirlReads | Oct 25, 2024 |
This is a fun book if you're participating in NaNoWriMo, but it hasn't got much more to offer than writing peptalks and NaNo in-jokes. Contains plenty of humor. ( )
  jd7h | Feb 18, 2024 |
Just do it! Write! ( )
  zot79 | Aug 20, 2023 |
This is a guide for doing NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month,) and for what it is, it's very good! I got some great insights from it that I look forward to using this year. Wish I'd read it before I attempted NaNoWriMo the first time, to be honest. If you're looking for a more general guide to novel writing though, this is not the book for you. ( )
  veewren | Jul 12, 2023 |
Awesome 👏!!!

I really enjoyed this book quite a lot. It has some good tips and guidelines and info for being a writer. Also specifically it has some helpful tips, tricks and ideas for doing nanowrimo, where you work on writing a novel in the month of November.

It’s exactly what I needed to read and hear while trying to figure and decide about doing Nanowrimo this year or not. I’m feeling psyched and excited as well as nervous to try to do it this year.

I think I’m going to need to reread it next month of November now though 🙂. ( )
  Kiaya40 | Jun 19, 2023 |
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Chris Baty, founder of the wildly successful literary marathon known as National Novel Writing Month, has completely revised and expanded his definitive handbook for extreme noveling. Chris pulls from over 15 years of results-oriented writing experience to pack this compendium with new tips and tricks, ranging from week-by-week quick reference guides to encouraging advice from authors, and much more. His motivating mix of fearless optimism and practical solutions to common excuses gives both first-time novelists and results-oriented writers the kick-start they need to embark on an exhilarating creative adventure.

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