Hi people, it’s Elly here. Every November, I participate in NaNoWriMo, which is National
Novel Writing Month for those of you who don’t know. Basically, within the month of November
you have to write 50,000 words for a novel and boy is that hard. Because I’m in the
middle of NaNoWriMo right now I thought I’d do the NaNoWriMo tag in order to give you
guys some information on how I do it and stuff like that. Okay, let’s go. How many times
have you done NaNoWriMo? This is my third year participating. How did you first find
out about NaNoWriMo? Back in high school, a long long time ago, I knew a girl who was
participating in NaNoWriMo and I completely acted like I knew what that was. Like “oh
yeah, yeah I know what that is.” I didn’t. But then I went home and researched it and
it was actually really cool. But it was so far into November already that there was no
chance of me starting and actually finishing it, so I waited until the year after to start
it, which was my first year of college. What was the name of the first novel you attempted?
The first novel I attempted was Legendary if you can count it as an attempt. I literally
only got about 6000 words into that story before I gave up. Literally like day four.
Give us a one sentence summary of what you’re writing this year. The novel I’m writing
this year is called Imminent and I think I’m just gonna read you the little synopsis I
wrote for it on NaNoWriMo. Kinda cheating, this is two sentences, but whatever. There’s
a power in words and the towering hold they have on the imminent lives of the people who
use them. Strangers, Kate and Rodney, set out on a quest to listen to the words and
follow their lead into the unknown. It sounds more mysterious than it actually is to be
honest. What’s the best writing advice you’ve ever been given? I’ve mentioned it so many
times on this channel already that this should probably just be a writing channel to be honest.
But the best advice I’ve been given and that I would give to someone else is just
to write every day. I know that is insanely hard and sometimes you have writers block
and can’t think of anything to write, but the best thing you can do for your brain and
for your writers block and just for yourself as a writer is to just keep writing. Did you
ever take a year off of NaNo and why? No I have not, simply because if I didn’t do
it one year I would regret it. There have definitely been years when I probably shouldn’t
have done NaNo, but I did it anyway. And I gave it my best shot and I think that’s
what really counts. What’s your biggest inspiration with figuring out what to write?
Music, hands down. So I have a playlist on my Spotify, actually, I’ll link it below.
I’ll link the playlist below. – That I listen to just when I’m writing my book.
I filled it with songs that are calming and not too crazy enough to get me distracted,
but also songs that I think correlate nicely with my story. I feel like every song on that
playlist somehow fits my novel and what I’m trying to write and portray. So listening
to that playlist I’ve made gives me so much inspiration. And I’m constantly adding to
it. Read us the first sentence from one of your novels. I’m gonna read you the first
sentence of Imminent, simply because I have it right here quick and easy and also, I kinda
like it. My heating just turned on, so sorry if there’s a rumble now. The party clambered
on below her, but she didn’t hear a sound. Why do you love writing? Writing has always
been a part of my life. I’ve been doing it as long as I can remember. I love telling
stories and being creative. And writing is the perfect mesh of that. And that’s all
the questions. Yey! One of the reasons why I did want to do this tag even though I don’t
really like tags, I wanted the motivation to continue NaNoWriMo. As of today the word
count is 30,000 words and I’m only at like 11,000 cause I’ve been slacking. But I’ve
also been really busy, so excuses. And the heat just got louder, okay, video’s almost
over. In addition to my playlist for my novel, I’ll also leave a link in the description
to my NaNoWriMo page. Go add me as a buddy and we can write together. Yey, motivation.
Okay. Anyway, I hope you guys liked this video. If you did, please make sure to give it a
like if you like and subscribe. And that’s it so I’m gonna go. Bye! This heating is too loud for filming
and it won’t shut off.