guys November is almost here so today I'm bringing you another preptober &
NaNoWriMo tip by telling you all about my Harry potter-themed NaNoWriMo cabin
and how a little friendly Hogwarts house competition could help you win NaNoWriMo
this year
[Author Brittany Wang - NaNoWriMo House Cup Cabin | Preptober + NaNoWriMo Tips]
hey guys if you're new here my name is Brittany Wang I'm an author of
an upcoming why a faerie fantasy series and on this channel we discuss author
platforms as well as writing and writing community tips so if that sounds good to
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you've been around my channel lately though you know we're knee-deep in preptober
gearing up for NaNoWriMo 2018 and while earlier this month I shared with
you how I use my Series Bible to do all my novel planning today I'm going to
share with you how you can easily find all the support you'll need to write
those 50,000 words and make a bunch of great writing friends along the way
believe me I've tried to do Nano on my own in years past and I've never made it
to 50k but when I did camp Nano this summer with a bunch of writing friends
that were in the trenches with me and cheering me on I not only met but
surpassed my word count goal now while the camp NaNoWriMo site always
offers these great group cabins for this purpose it seems like the official
NaNoWriMo site doesn't offer cabins and so me and my plotter life writers
Facebook group wanted to fix that and add some Harry Potter fun so we are
calling this the NaNoWriMo Hauschka basically in our Facebook group we will
be hosting a thread that will act like a NaNoWriMo cabin chatroom within that
thread each member will first join a Hogwarts house so Gryffindor Slytherin
Hufflepuff Ravenclaw and since there are four of them my plot our life team
leaders are going to be acting as the professor's for each house and since I'm
the founder of the group I'm gonna be Dumbledore let me know in the comments
which Hogwarts house you would choose while I tell you a little bit more about
how this competition is gonna work during the month of November each house
will compete by reporting their weekly word counts in the thread and the house
with the largest average amount of words by the end of the month will win our
house Cup well so obviously be cheering each other on
in the thread and sharing our struggles and our tips and during this month of
October we're also hosting weekly prep Tober chats to help you get all set and
ready to hit the ground running come November first all you have to do to get
in on the fun is to join the Facebook group which will be linked in the
description below and I'm going to let one of my amazing plotter life team
members Nathalie tell you the rest hello riders I'm Nathalie I'm part of
the plotter life team that helps Brittany to organize and brainstorm all
of the events that we have in this group and as mentioned last night in the live
chat this month we're going to be hosting the NaNoWriMo house Cup and we
are so excited about this I hope that you guys are as well and I'm gonna be in
charge of all the practical things that surrounds this so in this video I'm just
quickly running through how we'll work and how you could be part of it so
basically we're gonna be tracking the average house members journey or
progress throughout NaNoWriMo so if we have two House members for example and
one of them writes 2,000 words and one of them writes 4,000 words we'll have an
average that wrote 3000 words and that is what we are actually looking at and
writing is the only thing that you can do to get points for your house because
that's the only thing you should be doing in November and since November
starts on a Wednesday every Wednesday of the month I'm gonna make a post where
you can report your work count for the past week and then on the Friday I'm
gonna post a graphic of the progress in the competition so far and the winning
house will get to fly their colors on the group photo of this community for
the rest of the year as well as awesome reading rights obviously but since we
are looking at the average House member we need to know how many people are
going to be in the cup so you need to sign up so if you want to do that just
quickly comment on this video with your Hogwarts house and the fact that you
want to participate and I will sign you up and it's that easy you can sign up
all throughout October but ones Nano kicks off it'll be too late to join so
make sure to sign up as soon as you know that you want to be part of it so you
don't miss out now if you don't know your hardwood house you need to find out
so I would recommend go to Parramatta comm it's the official test by JK
Rowling herself and it's very accurate I've done it like five times
I'm always a Hufflepuff and it's also just a lot of fun I'm kind of a
personality test junkie so but if you don't
an account there's literally thousands of tests on the internet so if you just
google it you'll have options and if you're unsure if you've been sorted
right I've been where you are and I'd recommend is doing the test again and
again and again and if you're still in the same house well accept it embrace it
and make it your weapon also if you're some kind of hybrid between two houses
three four what do I know I'm started saying you're gonna have to
choose okay I know I might be putting you in like an identity crisis here but
guys there can only be one we've also picked out an official house emoji for
each of the houses so throughout October and November as you come in a post you
can use that to just quickly find your house members some healthy competition
maybe and yeah just for fun you can also just write out your house whatever you
fancy and those are gonna be above my head somewhere in the post so check that
out and I think that's it so we are so excited about this I hope that you guys
are too and if you are feel free to share this event cuz the more the
merrier and there are some graphics that you can use to put on your socials if
you want to I'll post those as well in the group and the official hashtag for
this event is gonna be nano house cup so yeah you can use that as much as you
want and if you have any questions just drop them below we will do our best to
clear things up but as I said there's gonna be more information coming as well
as November closes in and yeah until then get excited sharpen your pencils
and let the best word wizards win if you think this event sounds awesome help us
spread the word by giving this video a like share it on your social with the
hashtag nano house cup and we'll see you in the group or at the very least I hope
you choose to gather a couple of great writing friends together to encourage
each other while you try to tackle this massive challenge
that's my prepped over tip for you today and as always until next week happy
writing