lettersandlight:

This season, we’ve brought on published authors to serve as NaNo Coaches to help guide you to reaching 50,000 words. Our third NaNo Coach, best-selling author Jason Hough, shares his words of wisdom:

Being the NaNo Coach for the third week in November filled me with a bit of anxiety. What sort of advice would people need that far in? Surely steadfast habits would be formed and stories sorted by then. In many ways I feared that any advice I could give, however valid, would only derail those asking for it.

To my surprise and delight, there were plenty of great questions and concerns to help with. While many sought encouragement, which I happily-if-awkwardly gave, I was extremely pleased to find that often others in the community had chimed in as well with stellar pep-tweets. This gave me warm pangs of nostalgia for NaNoWriMo—the community it fosters is truly remarkable.

Here’s a sampling of the questions I received, and my responses, which I’ll thankfully be able to elaborate on here:

@KDSpyKidD3: Could you offer some words of encouragement? I’m currently at 11K and trying hard to catch up.

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