What I Wish I Knew When I Started Writing Novels

Tips to help you finish your first draft this November

John Ilho
The Writing Cooperative
5 min readNov 19, 2022

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Photo by Varvara Grabova on Unsplash

Writing a novel requires a strong will and the kind of commitment that can move mountains.

But it doesn’t have to be painful.

Since November has come along, and with it NaNoWriMo, I thought this was a good time to tell you the most…

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I’m a former head chef turned full-time writer. I know, right? I, too, thought my mom had raised me better than this.