5 Reasons You Failed to Win NaNoWriMo (and What to Do about It)

Published: Sat, 12/03/16

National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) has come to a close for another year.

A fraction of the writers (around 14%) who participated reached their goal of writing 50,000 words in 30 days. The vast majority of writers (the other 86%) failed to achieve what they set out to do.

If you’re reading this, you probably ended up on the wrong side of that 14/86 split.

While I may not know you, I have worked with hundreds of writers just like you over the last several years, and I’m confident I can tell you exactly why you failed to reach the 50K mark.

It was almost certainly one of the following five reasons.

Your pal in writing, 


Kevin T. Johns, writing coach

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