How to motivate yourself to write your novel this month

Some tips and tricks I recommend to help with something all writers battle with at some point: motivation.

Hello writers!

I hope you’re having a great week.

I can see some of you are keeping up with the November Novel Writing Challenge. I’ve fallen a little behind because of a busy Sunday and Monday, but am hoping to catch up throughout the week. If you’d like to join us for the rest of the month and haven’t already - by all means add your name to the sheet and create your own target!

I’m updating the chat each day about the challenge (though not via email notification - I don’t want to drive you all mad!) and you’re welcome to come along and chat with me and with others about how everything is going.

And a quick shout-out to Beth, who’s already written over 9000 words this month!

I appreciate it is a lot of writing in one month, and that’s not easy. I’ve never tried writing a novel in such a short period of time, so I’m finding it as difficult as everyone else is. It’s not easy to motivate yourself to write that size volume of work, especially when it’s easy for so many other things to get in …