NaNoWriMo Cheat Sheet by DaveChild

The aim is to write a novel in November.

It's about quantity, not quality.

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Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.

If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out.

Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word, or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equiva­lent.

- Refusal of the Call

- The Crossing of the First Threshold

- The Meeting With the Goddess

- Atonement with the Father

- The Ultimate Boon

- Refusal of the Return

- Rescue from Without

- Master of Two Worlds

Suppli­cation

Crime pursued by vengeance

Pursuit

Falling prey to cruelt­y/m­isf­ortune

Daring enterprise

The enigma

Enmity of kin

Murderous adultery

Fatal imprudence

Slaying of kin unreco­gnized

Self-s­acr­ifice for kin

Necessity of sacrif­icing loved ones

Adultery

Discovery of the dishonour of a loved one

An enemy loved

Conflict with a god

Erroneous judgement

Loss of loved ones

A story should have a beginning, a middle, and an end... but not necess­arily in that order. - Jean-Luc Godard

You get ideas from daydre­aming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we're doing it. - Neil Gaiman

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader. Robert Frost

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. - Dr. Seuss