NaNoWriMo Tips to Help You Win This Year

Marisa Mohi
6 min readNov 1, 2023

There’s a crisp chill in the air. My family has started to politely argue over who will bring what to Thanksgiving. My seasonal depression is banging down the door. That must mean National Novel Writing Month is upon us, and with that, I’ll be sharing my NaNoWriMo tips to help you win this year.

For those who don’t know what NaNoWriMo is, let me explain.

(Also, how did you get here? Like, not that I’m asking in a shitty way. But like, if you don’t know what NaNo is, welcome…I guess? We talk about writing and tarot and books and planning and mindset here.)

NaNoWriMo is short for National Novel Writing Month. It happens every November, and a bunch of quixotic little storytellers try to win NaNoWriMo by writing 50,000 words during the month.

It’s a lot of work, and it’s a lot fun.

NaNoWriMo Tips to Help You Win This Year

To me, NaNoWriMo isn’t so much a writing challenge as it is a battle against your greatest foe-yourself.

With that in mind, I created these NaNoWriMo tips to help you vanquish procrastination, plot bunnies, and the tendency to chug a whole pot of coffee and call it inspiration.

(Just me?)

Start With Preptober

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Marisa Mohi

novelist, blogger, and tarot reader | former tech writer, college instructor, and instructional designer | black coffee or GTFO | https://marisamohi.com