How to Write 20K in a Day

NaNoWriMo is coming up. Here’s how you win.

Fast-drafting is something of a superpower in the writing community.

You might need to hit a deadline, or you might need to get ahead on your schedule so you can take some much-needed time off. Fast-drafting is helpful, for me, because it’s so much easier to keep the whole story in my head for twenty or thirty days, as opposed to a year. I can easily remember if I already talked about my MC’s dead sister if everything I’ve ever written on this story was written in the last ten days. When…