I highly recommend the use of an outline for National Novel Writing Month.

Of course I haven't yet written one myself... but, um, I plan to!

So I thought I'd share my NaNoWriMo warmup exercise with you. In the spirit of NaNoWriMo, I've outlines how to write a novel outline in 2 days.

This isn't your usual novel outline. You'd normally take a month or so to do that properly (say using the Snow Flake method). But this should be enough to keep you on-track during NaNoWriMo

1. Summary: (10 minutes)

I'm a huge advocate of National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo). Last year I wrote a 50,000 word rough draft of The Gate during the month of November.

What is NaNoWriMo?

From the NaNoWriMo website, the official description is:

National Novel Writing Month is a fun, seat-of-your-pants approach to novel writing. Participants begin writing November 1. The goal is to write a 175-page (50,000-word) novel by midnight, November 30.