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Why You’ll Never Finish Writing A Book In 30 Days
It’s not because there isn’t enough time.
Any writer with access to the internet eventually discovers NaNoWriMo — The national novel writing month. Are you prepared to write 50k words in thirty days? We’re already in day 8.
It sounds preposterous, isn’t it? Even so, many books over the years have been written during this challenge and came out to stellar reception. According to the official NaNo website there are more than 700k novels written during the challenge.
I personally know a writer called IV Olokita — this is a pseudonym name — that wrote his first book during NaNoWriMo a few years back.
And yet, many more people start the challenge than those who finish it. I personally began a story two years ago, reached 20k words, and abandoned due to lack of time, too big of a gap between the word count goal and my actual word count, and all the usual excuses. That’s what they were.
It’s because of these excuses why you’ll never write a book in 30 days. Let’s review some of them.
Lack Of Time
50k words divided by 30 days is Approximately 1667 words to write every day of November.
