Five NaNoWriMo Tips and Tricks from an 11-Year Seat-of-the-Pantser

Jennifer Carole Visit jcarole.com
3 min readOct 31, 2022

A fun way to permit yourself to write with friends and get a shirt at the end!

One little girl sharing a secret with her friend.

I love the NaNo process. Thirty days to have an excuse to hide and write. It makes November cuddly and fun (I live in California, so we don’t always get cuddly weather). NaNo says I’ve written over 302K words since 2011. Damn!!

Jennifer Carole Visit jcarole.com

Trauma & Leadership Coach. Writer. Crafter. A Master's in strategic comm has served me in Silicon Valley as a marketer; my current passion is cybersecurity!