The second year I wrote Canyon Walls, my debut novel. I was still trying to figure out what kind of writing fit me best. The first year I wrote a young adult novel. This year was my third year to complete NaNoWriMo. How many years of NaNoWriMo have you successfully ended up with draft one of a manuscript? NaNoWriMo forced me to turn off my doubts and all my second guessing to get my next book written. I’m a perfectionist, and it’s tough for me to turn off my internal editor long enough to get the words on the page. I tinkered with that book for years before eventually starting my second book through NaNoWriMo in 2005.

It would most likely be through a total rewrite instead of with a revision. I still love the characters from that book, and I might revisit it someday. I wrote my first novel in 2002 as part of one of my classes in the professional writing program at OU. How many novels did you complete prior to attempting NaNoWriMo? That’s where I discovered my love of fiction.Īs a self-professed procrastinator, you use organized spurt-writing events such as National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) to complete the first draft of your novels. After getting engaged, my husband and I both transferred to the University of Oklahoma, which is one of the few colleges with a professional writing degree that focuses more on commercial fiction. I had no idea where that dream would lead me or what kind of writing I wanted to do. Thank you! This question made me think because my journey to become a novelist has been a winding one. What came first…the education in journalism leading to novel writing, or the dream of a novelist spurring the journalism degree?

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Canyon Cafe by Julie Jarnagin