With NaNoWriMo, the goal is easy. You are to write 50.000 words in 30 days. That's 1667 words a day, or 11669 words in a week. Or 10.000 words a day, and then you're done in 5 days.
Now, my experience is that it's best to put most work in the beginning of the month, when you have most enthusiasm, and least work in the end, when you find it all just boring and bothersome. :-D
So
1. -8.11 - 20000 words
9.-15.11 - 15000 words
16.-22.11 - 10000 words
23.-30.11 - 5000 words
Or, do how ever you want. This is what this day is for.
So, in a novel there's approximately 250 words on a page, and let's say about 8 pages in a chapter. Of course, your chapters are as long or short as you like, but that's for the calculating purposes. So, if you write 1667 words in a day, that's about 7 pages... about a chapter a day. (There are some tricks about writing and pacing, for example the chapters get shorter to the end of the book, but you don't need to think about that right now.) Anyway, you need to decide how many words you want to write each day and put that on a calendar of some sort.
There are free NaNoWriMo calendars out there, where someone has already done the job.
It is good if you plan in some freetime, leisure, relax, when you just read books or watch series or do something else that has nothing to do with your writing.
Setting up your NaNoWriMo goals
Now, my experience is that it's best to put most work in the beginning of the month, when you have most enthusiasm, and least work in the end, when you find it all just boring and bothersome. :-D
So
1. -8.11 - 20000 words
9.-15.11 - 15000 words
16.-22.11 - 10000 words
23.-30.11 - 5000 words
Or, do how ever you want. This is what this day is for.
So, in a novel there's approximately 250 words on a page, and let's say about 8 pages in a chapter. Of course, your chapters are as long or short as you like, but that's for the calculating purposes. So, if you write 1667 words in a day, that's about 7 pages... about a chapter a day. (There are some tricks about writing and pacing, for example the chapters get shorter to the end of the book, but you don't need to think about that right now.) Anyway, you need to decide how many words you want to write each day and put that on a calendar of some sort.
There are free NaNoWriMo calendars out there, where someone has already done the job.
It is good if you plan in some freetime, leisure, relax, when you just read books or watch series or do something else that has nothing to do with your writing.
Setting up your NaNoWriMo goals
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