NaNoWriMo 2023 Editing Goals
A Brief Backstory:
My first NaNoWriMo was in 2011, during a creative writing class I took during the first half of my senior year in high school. I was 1 of 3 students who hit the 50k word goal. The story I wrote is lost to time.
My second NaNoWriMo was in 2017, which I started and promptly forgot about. Instead of finishing my goal, I took Neil Gaiman’s writing masterclass, which later spurred me on to write my first book.
Backstory Over:
Now it is NaNoWriMo 2023. I completed a yearly goal and wrote two 90k drafts, “Stagnant Water,” written from February to May, and “Clouds over Saint Petersburg,” written from June to October.
This is the first year I’m participating in NaNoWriMo with an editing goal instead of a writing goal, and I’m late to the NaNoWriMo goals setting because I was at a loss on what goals to set.
Luckily, Venessa Giunta from The Writing Tribe gave me a great goal.
“When I do editing for Nano, I usually have a page count goal rather than a word count goal.”
A quick Google search told me, “A 50,000 word count will create about 100 pages with single spacing or 200 pages double-spaced when using normal 1-inch margins, 12 pt.”
100 pages is a nice even number- I like that. So, for anyone who is also editing, and has not set a NaNoWriMo goal, here is the breakdown.
50,000 / 100 = 500
1 page = 500 words in the NaNo tracker
Additionally, my current WIP is a second draft so I anticipate doing a lot of rewriting. To make myself feel better, I’m also going to track the added word count, which I’ll update on the completion of each chapter.
To anyone else who was struggling with NaNoWriMo editing goals, use this as a guide, and let’s get these books finished!