# [[Lessons from NaNo]] This is a section where I am logging what I have learned from doing the NaNo this time and listing on what worked and what didn't work. This list will grow over the course of the NaNo. ## What Worked - Creating Todo at the end of the note and making it into a note in planning gave a good idea of the next step. > [!example]- > ![[Free Form Writing#^76f8c1|clean no-link]] - using three subsections as "Last Session", "This Session" and "Summary" seem to help organize my notes better at the end. - Using a free form writing worked well to get my thoughts flowing into the screen - should do this every day during the planning period to write bits and pieces of them and split them into its own scenes afterwards. ## What Worked (NOT) - Whenever I was updating the note I had to use a second header ## to denote the date of modification instead of doing the version control and then the last session and summary was all broken. Perhaps I should just make a new file and build on top of it instead. - one month of writing feels unrealistic just to ranmble on my writing. From most of the writing authors who started out as a NaNoWriMo it took them about 4 months for the outline and one month of writing was barely enough for them to get the first draft done. - I found this to be encouraging because this year and last year I spent most of my time in planning the write up only to give up thinking I wasn't doing it right. - This insight also means if I want to approach NaNoWriMo 2024 then I should start planning in July.