My plans for NaNoWriMo  

6 days until NaNoWriMo. Time to disclose my plans and my organization for this big event !

My Goals

• Writing 50,000 words in english
• Finish the storyline (very important)

Software

• The manuscript will be written in a single plain .txt file
• Backup and versioning will be taken care of by Tortoise SVN / ProSVN
• My text editor will be SciTe with the wordcount addon. I also plan to use Visual C# Express (for stealth writing at work, lol)

Misc Tools

• Translations.txt : my constructed world has been created in french. I have started to translate the most used company names, weapon names, etc.
• Idea Box : if I become stuck, I'll pick an idea card and try to apply it in my story.
• Setting.txt : the weather, the way characters are dressed and their current mood at scene X are very easy to forget by scene X+1. So I'll track theses "mundane" details in this file.
• Edit.txt : No editing during NaNo, I know. But to fix things later, you have to make a note about what is going wrong (thanks The Secrets Podcast).
• Logan's excel report : an amazing Excel sheet to track your writing progress, modded by a fellow NaNo-writer Logan. It has everything from statistics and graphic charts. It will be very useful.
  

Writing process

• To insure I will finish my story by the end of NaNo, I'll use a method similar to the Snowflake one : write a summary of the entire story and expand each point until I get to 50,000.

That's it... I am preparing everything BUT my story. That's fun, that's procrastination, that's scary... and that's NaNoWriMo.

Happy Nano-preparation to all ! Don't hesitate to share your own way to prepare NaNoWriMo in the comments.