NaNoWriMo 2015: Getting Started

The Kid loved doing National Novel Writing Month's Young Writers Program last year and has been very excited to get started again this year! Of course, being five years old, the 30,000 word count that is set as the default goal is a bit much. Last year, she set her goal at 1500 and just made it. This year, she has set herself a goal of 2500 words.

This year, she wanted to do part of the workbook that the YWP has to help young writers map out their characters and stories. So we spent a few days at the end of October, with me scribing in the workbook as she created a main character, supporting character, and villain. She made up a brief outline of her book's plot and I asked her questions to prompt her. That is all the planning she did - and it's far more planning than she's ever done before.

Her goal is for her to write (or dictate) about 20 minutes per school day throughout November. She wants to try her hand at typing it, so we may be trading off some. We have always done her previous stories with her dictating and me scribing, guided by BraveWriter's Jot It Down program, and I'm expecting I'll be doing the majority of the typing this month.

Wish her luck!