Is anyone else doing Nanowrimo? This is my first time doing it, and I'm wondering how other people do it. I mean, I've had this story in my head for months and knew the ending and sort of knew the characters, and sort of wrote an outline, but I got to a scene where I'm not sure how to write it.
Has anyone ever written the 50,000 word mark in one month? And do you have any advice to give?

One of the hardest parts in NaNo is encountering scenes you just do not know how to proceed. The answer to those scenes is to just write the scene and don't look back. Yeah, more than likely it is not going to turn out to be the best you can do, or be what you want, or even look pretty, but that's okay. Wing it, make it up as you go, just write and see what happens, throw a hobgoblin in the room and see what your characters do. The purpose of NaNo is to reach your goal of 50,000 words.

Remember, November is when we throw all the ideas at the wall and December is when we edit and see what sticks.

I hugely over estimated the length of my novel on my first NaNoWriMo, and every single scene I wrote for the last half was unplanned completely. It was hard...but I managed it. It was a bit easier because I had nothing I wanted to be the end, and the story could go wherever it wanted. But it was still a struggle to get the words out.

I think what saved me is that I knew my characters, so I could write scene after scene of them just talking, and dealing with random predicaments I managed to think up. Another thing that saved me was adding a new character. The others had sort of gotten acclimated to each other, so I threw a totally different one in to stir things up and make conflict, and it actually worked.

How have you been finding it, Em?