50,000 words in a month? Why stop there? WM creative writing courses coordinator Sally Bridgewater decided to take NaNoWriMo to a new level, with some very clear benefits
Twenty hours in, my thoughts seize up and my fingers falter. ‘I don’t hear any tippy-tappy!’ My friend Tonks, sitting in an armchair beside me, jumps in to spur me on after one second of silence. My thoughts jangle around in my head. It is curious, but when one is thinking ‘Come on, I need to do this!’ one is not concentrating on the actual doing of it.