Finish Writing Your Novel Now!, Novel Writing Assignments

Writing Assignment #7: Celebrate!

Once you’ve reached the end of the first draft of your novel manuscript, it’s time to celebrate! This is a HUGE accomplishment, one that takes some writers decades to reach. You should celebrate! At this point, you should ignore how many steps of the writing process are yet to be worked through and take a break. For now, the bulk of the writing is done, and your brain needs some rest before making the shift into edit mode.

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I know what you’re thinking: Wait, edit mode? But you said I was done!

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Finish Writing Your Novel Now!, Novel Writing Assignments

Writing Assignment #6: Write the first draft!

Today’s message is a short one after we’ve spent several weeks covering the planning stage of the novel writing process. Now that we’ve covered the basics of writing a first draft of your novel, there’s only one thing left to say: sit down and do it! Start writing, and don’t stop until the end of your story is on the page!

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