5 Writing Mistakes to Avoid in Your NaNoWriMo Participation

NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) is here again. Every year in November thousands of writers participate. They each buckle down and write a novel within the month of November. That's a pretty impressive task.

Well, last year during NaNoWriMo, Grammarly.com did something unique. They worked with nearly 500 writers from 54 countries to crowdsource a novel. They analyzed the resulting 40,000 or so words and uncovered some writing mistakes that happened time and again, then summarized the top five in a handy infographic:

Five Mistakes To Avoid in Your NaNoWriMo Novel Infographic

Attribution for this infographic goes to: https://www.grammarly.com/grammar-check

Want more Free tips on editing your work? Check out Editing Books Like a Pro:

4 comments:

Karen Cioffi said...

Grammerly, thanks for sharing such useful writing information with us. As an editor, I see these types of errors. Number one is probably the most frequent error.

Carolyn Howard-Johnson said...

Grammerly, it's been a while since we've connected via e-mail. Glad to see you offering your wisdom on Writers on the Move--a great group of writers who would never "make" one of these mistakes, but might gloss over one of them in the reading. Thus the reason for a great editing program like yours--or a great editor. Or both!

Shirley Corder said...

Thanks for sharing this, Karen. It's a good reminder. I am not doing NaNo this year and I really miss the thrill!

Karen Cioffi said...

Hey, Shir, I haven't even tried it once yet. One year . . . :)

Summer Writing Blues: Dealing with Distractions, Procrastination and Other Book Killers

  Summer is here! And that means vacations, barbecues, lazy summer evenings, and bored kids at home watching the television all day and as...