I found a blog post titled Tips for NaNoWriMo written by someone who appears to have participated in Nano for as long as I have, yet has only "won" once. There's some good advice in there although I've never tried Q10 so I can't say one way or the other on that particular point. Frankly, I think people will find her more helpful than say, me, since I have won Nano every year (although I'd also like to point out that I've lost Script Frenzy every year, too). People would rather give you the evil eye for keeping up with your word count than ask for advice. And, well, my planning and writing habits are actually haphazard at best, no matter what it looks like on this site.
NaNo Scrapbooking. These people are way more dedicated to documenting their Nanowrimo progress than I am. I think I'm just going to stick to my tree hugger ways and waste electrons rather than paper.
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Lately, I've been thinking of ways to use to kill characters. Interesting and novel ways. For instance, last night, I had a dream about a monster that came out at 7:30 pm that people had to barricade their doors against. The monster also slipped pieces of paper underneath his potential victims' doors with rather alarming prime numbers scratched on them. Okay, so that was just a weird dream. But one thing I thought about putting in my novel is a curfew of sorts--not because there was some sort of law going on in the story, but that if the characters broke this curfew, it was definitely at their own risk.
And on the Nanowrimo Q&A page today, there was an article about some belly dancers. And I thought--what if I killed off a character by belly dancer? I'm not quite sure how I'd do it, but it'll certainly be a unique method of murder.
