Write Your Damn Novel: A podcast about writing a book in a month
Write Your Damn Novel (formerly How to Win NaNo) is a no-nonsense guide to writing a novel in 30 days. Like it or not November comes every year, but don't you worry — your hosts are here for you! Kristina Horner and Liz Leo are 'writing-50k-words-in-a-month' experts (and lifelong writing friends) with a passion for helping people write their damn novel. Join them each week as they share their personal tips, tricks and other things they've learned over almost two decades of consecutive NaNoWriMo wins.
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 22 minutes
- Episodes
- 89
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2025
Our Favorite Writing Tools + Fanmail!
In this episode, we dive into some of our favorite writing tools and take a look at some lovely messages from listeners!
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Choosing the Right Genre and Setting
In this week's episode, we delve into genre and setting — and how the two are connected.
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Creating Characters That Don't Suck
In this episode we talk about how we come up with ideas for characters, what makes a character interesting, and how to make those characters feel like living, breathing beings you can form empathy fo…
Get To Know Your Hosts
Get to know Kristina and Liz, the hosts of How To Win NaNo! In this episode, we delve into our writer origin stories, including how we got started writing, what we like reading, and ways we've been i…
Preparing Your Life for NaNoWriMo
The secret to NaNoWriMo is in building strong habits. It takes 21 days to build a habit, so we're here to help you get this stuff down BEFORE November starts!
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Where Do You Get Ideas?
Where do story ideas come from? How do you choose what to write? How do you keep track of your ideas? Join us this week as we discuss tips for generating novel ideas.
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Why Does NaNoWriMo Work?
Liz and Kristina dive into what it means to be successful at NaNoWriMo, and why this tool for getting your book written works for so many people.
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Why Do We Do NaNoWriMo?
A brief intro to what NaNoWriMo is and why we do it every year.
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Trailer: How To Win NaNo
How To Win NaNo is a writing podcast aimed to get YOU ready to tackle NaNoWriMo this November. Episodes will go live every Wednesday starting in April, but until then: please enjoy this trailer!
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