I’m Going to Force Myself to Write an 80,000 Word Novel in 30 Days

Will I be able to write an entire novel in as little as a month?

Like many authors and writers, I sometimes leave a project half-finished… if I had even bothered to start it in the first place.

When I was cleaning my desk the other day I came across a notebook I made when I first read the writing guide Save the Cat! Writes a Novel by Jessica Brody. I had filled almost every page of this 130-page notebook with notes from the book and more than two dozen complete novel outlines.

That has been left to gather dust for almost two years now.

I have decided that I am not going to sit on these anymore, and with no ongoing projects for the month of March I have decided I am going to finish one of these outlines, and the whole novel start to end in one month since I have a project scheduled to be started April 1st, I really have no choice but to have the novel completed by then.

My goal is to write a minimum of 2,700 words every day of the month of March and celebrate on the 31st before beginning April's project the following day.

I have seen many attempts to write a novel in a month, especially for the rational NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) in which the end goal of those 30 days is to write a 50,000…