thefish answered Thursday October 18 2007, 9:19 pm: November is National Novel Writing Month, in case you didn't know. You should sign up for it! The idea is to write a certain amount of words each day, focusing on how many words you have rather than how good it is. If you go their website, [Link](Mouse over link to see full location), and go to the forums, they have a lot of good ideas and plenty of people to talk to if you need help. This thread in particular has a lot of ideas: [Link](Mouse over link to see full location)
What helps me is starting out by focusing on characters, and then developing a setting and plot around them. [Link](Mouse over link to see full location) has a good guideline for creating characters.
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