Setting Self-Doubt on Fire: How to Set Realistic Goals for NaNoWriMo

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  4. Setting Self Doubt on Fire: To Dump or not to Dump
  5. Setting Self Doubt on Fire: Keep the Faith
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  7. Setting Self Doubt on Fire: Just for the love of it
  8. Setting Self Doubt on Fire: 5 Step plan for success
  9. Setting Self Doubt on Fire: The Planning Issue
  10. Setting Self Doubt on Fire: The Crossroads
  11. Setting Self Doubt on Fire: The Overwhelming Effect
  12. Setting Self Doubt on Fire: The Waiting Game
  13. Setting Self Doubt on Fire: Reflection 2013
  14. Setting Self Doubt on Fire: New Year New Challenges
  15. Setting Self Doubt on Fire: Am I a real Writer?
  16. Setting Self Doubt on Fire: Taking The Next Step
  17. Setting Self Doubt on Fire: Submission Phobia
  18. Setting Self Doubt On Fire: How To Get Ideas
  19. Setting Self Doubt on Fire: Dealing with Fear
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  64. Video Refresh: Keep The Faith
  65. Video Refresh: Finding Your Identity
  66. Video Refresh: 5 Step plan for success
  67. Video Refresh: The Planning Issue
  68. Video Refresh: The Crossroads
  69. Video Refresh: The Overwhelming Effect
  70. Video Refresh: The Waiting Game
  71. Video Refresh: Am I A Real Writer?
  72. Video Refresh: Taking The Next Step
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  74. Video Refresh: Submission Phobia
  75. Video Refresh: Dealing With Fear
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Setting Self-Doubt on Fire: How to Set Realistic Goals for NaNoWriMo – Improve Your Writing Skills with AuthorTube

Hi all, it has been a long time since my last post — I seriously didn’t mean for it to be so long, but you know how life goes. Anyway, I have a new post for you today, and this post is part of my ‘Improve Your Writing Skills with AuthorTube’ miniseries.

 

If you want to know more about this new miniseries, you can read my ‘Setting Self-Doubt on Fire – AuthorTube – Learn How to Describe Emotion’ post, but make sure you return to this post if you do check out the first one. 

 

So, let’s look at the second video in this series: Setting Realistic Writing Goals for NaNoWriMo by The Courtney Project, see video below. 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3ATREY2Seg

 

Courtney is the owner of The Courtney Project YouTube channel. She is a self-published author who writes under the pen names Lyra Parish and Kennedy Fox — she’s one half of this USA Today Bestselling duo. So far, she has published over 35 romance novels.

 

November is the month of National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) — NaNoWriMo is where writers aim to write 50,000 words of their novel in November. As you’d expect, this is a big challenge. So I have a video that will help you to make realistic goals for NaNoWriMo. 

 

In Courtney’s video, she explains how to set a realistic word count goal — writing 50,000 words is a brilliant achievement, but sometimes you can’t do. So, it’s a better idea to set a goal that you are likely to achieve, even if it’s as small as 5,000 words.

 

Courtney then goes on to show how she used to plan her month when she worked full time. It is suggested that you write 1667 words a day to reach the 50,000-word goal. But if you work full time or have other commitments, you might not be able to write that amount of words a day. So, she suggests using different daily word counts based on how much you can write on that specific day.

She also shares what to expect during NaNoWriMo, which is great for all you NaNo newbies. And she manages to do all of this in less than 15 minutes. So, if like me, you’re taking part in NaNoWriMo, you should watch the video above. 

Oh, before I go, if you struggle with self-doubt and you want to be part of a group where writers can share their fears, motivate each other and offer support, then join my ‘Setting Self-Doubt on Fire Squad’ group. 

Okay, that’s all I have for you today. Stay safe, everyone. And I’ll speak to you again soon — I promise, it will be soon.

 

“Your goal should be just out of reach, but not out of sight.” — Denis Waitley and Remi Witt

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