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Conquer Your Story Edit and Finish Your Novel (NaNoWriMo)

Many brave and persistent authors complete a novel during the month of November, but then what do they do.  The month of strenuous writing is exhausting. A writer ends up with 50,000 words or more that were written quickly. To story is in words, and now is the time to turn those words into a powerful story.

Conquer Your Story Edit and Finish Your Novel

National Novel Writing Month is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that believes your story matters.

Welcome to our blog! We’re so glad you’re here.

Every year, we’re lucky to have great sponsors for our nonprofit events. Fictionary, a 2018 “Now What?” sponsor, is a breakthrough tool for editing fiction. Today, author and Fictionary co-founder Kristina Stanley shares her editing expertise, as well as the details of the Fictionary Finish Your Novel Contest:

Tell me a story!” your reader demands. “I want to feel happy, sad, frightened. Take me to a new world and make me care about what happens.

That’s a big ask of a writer. How do you go from the first draft of your novel to a story that works and captures readers? Think about some of the best novels you’ve read. What do you remember?

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