Day one was more than super easy for me (it won’t last- trust me…). As I am a Nano Rebel this year, and focusing on chapter revisions vs. word/pagecounts day one was a breeze writing-wise.

Thankfully I revised this chapter a long time ago, and only tweaked it here and there. Act one and part one of Act two have been mostly revised as I have worked on it this last year in short bursts between building and running a buisness.

I also created a tracker in my bullet journal to help me visualize my progress and note the areas that need more attention than others.


As an artist of not only words, I love the visual arts as well- so I knew if I took the time to create something with color it would help motivate me to complete everything in my anal retentive love for color mingled with functionality.

So what steps have you taken to get yourself motivated and to help track your progress? Some days you will need to see it to stop from quitting.

Have any tips or tricks? Share them below!

Also be sure to catch up with my Nano prep series:

So what did I cover?

  1. NaNoWriMo 101
  2. Why are you choosing to write?
  3. World building/ making your world rules.
  4. Plotting/Plot chains/Beat Sheets/ References
  5. Pinterest Boards for your Nano Novel
  6. Developing Characters
  7. Developing Settings
  8. Antagonists 101
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