Resources
Don’t know where to start? Or you’ve started but you’re stuck? Here are some useful resources for you gathered from all over the web and NaNoWriMo boards for you to use during the merry noveling days.
Most of the downloadable resources listed on this page are found around the Internet around 2007. If you own it and you’d rather be linked instead of having the file downloadable, please contact us immediately.
If you have other resources that you think would be useful for NaNoWriMo (or writing altogether), please do let us know as well so it can be linked here. :)
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NaNoWriMo for Newbies and Oldies
- NaNo for the New and the Insane: A guide to surviving NaNoWriMo by Lazette Gifford (PDF, 1.2MB)
Found this ebook sometime last year, but lost the URL where this was found. If ever you found it, please let us know so we can link it instead. - Vintage Soul’s NaNoWriMo tips
Progress Charts
- NaNoWriMo report card 2008
One of the popular downloads every year, and contains so many goodies to motivate you to write more and survive November. - Progress chart by salzke (Excel, 166KB)
Really awesome 2008 progress chart, complete with pie chart, average words per hour, word war tracker and morale tracker. For more details, check out this thread. - Printable progress chart (Doc, 36KB)
A printable progress sheet that allows you to have breaks whenever a certain word count goal is reached.
Characters
- Fiction Writer’s Character Chart by Eclectics
- Character Chart by Epiguide.com
- Character Generator from TruckPoetry
Plotting Devices
- The Randomizer Novel Rescue Companion (RTF, 24KB)
- Novel Emergency Matrix by SarahJanet (RTF, 28KB)
Lecture Notes
- Write or Die with Dean Alfar (Doc, 41KB)
Notes on Dean Alfar’s Fiction Writing talk November 2007.
Software
- Rough Draft (Freeware, Windows)
- yWriter 4 (Freeware, Windows)
- DarkRoom (Freeware, Windows)
- Papel (Freeware, Windows)
- Q10 (Freeware, Windows)
- Liquid Story Binder (30 day trial, Windows)
- Scrivener (30 day trial, Mac)
- WriteRoom (30 day trial, Mac)
- JDarkRoom (Freeware, Windows/Mac/Linux)
