Writing A Novel Draft in A Month

In November 2022, I took a part again in National Novel Writing Month (or more popularly, shortened: NaNoWriMo). The goal is: write 50,000 in 30 days of a novel. Many authors tackle it yearly. The official stats for 2022 says that: “51,670 writers met goals to become NaNoWriMo winners, including 21,326 young writers.” I succeeded by tackling a draft of the sequel to “Hope Runners of Gridlock” by writing 51,591 words! Here’s what I learned.