Back in 2019, I wrote a series of blog posts for National Novel Writing Month. NaNoWriMo takes place every November, and during that month thousands of writers from all over the world take up the challenge of writing a novel in a month. Via the “rules” of NaNoWriMo, you win the challenge if you write 50,000 words of fiction in 30 days.

October is sometimes called Preptober because many writers spend the month preparing a for NaNoWriMo. Writing those 1,667 words per day can be easier if you have ...