Around about week two you’re going to hit a wall. Don’t be surprised when you do. Everyone does. Just keep writing even if you think what you’re writing is garbage. It could be garbage and even if it is, write through it because once you do, you’ll find yourself entering new areas of your writing skills that you never knew were possible because you’re pushing yourself beyond your normal walls. Remember, don’t try to edit now. December and beyond is for editing. You just want to get your first draft written. Converse with other Nano-ers on the website.
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Day two repeat the activity of day one. Continue through each day of the month.
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Go back to the original sources. Tolkein’s “Lord of the Rings” was heavily inspired by the medieval epics “The Volsungsaga” and “The Neibelungenlied.”
Sleep on your outline. Give yourself a week or two off so you can return fresh and then look for holes in the plot and character contradictions that need to be resolved.
Flesh out your team (crime capers rarely involve a single hero). Start with your team leader, who must be something of a rogue himself; he can be a disgraced cop or security expert, a famous burglar forced out of retirement, a former special services vet forced to hire on from desperation. The secondary team members must bring key specialties to the job, whether it be surveillance skills, computer and electronic wizardry, safe cracking or high speed driving.
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Read other novels that apply diary form. Meg Cabot’s “Princess Diaries” and Bram Stoker’s “Dracula” are examples of successful literature that applied the diary form technique.
Attend court sessions. Even if your novel is not based on fact, it is important that you attend real trials so that you get an idea of what is involved. Even fictional crime novels get their story lines from real-life events.
Begin putting your novel together. This should flow pretty naturally as you move from one point in your outline to the next. Use your research and fill in the details. Don’t worry about being perfect at this point–just get your story out on paper.
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