If you’ve found this page, that tells me two things: you know what Preptober is or you’re currently researching Preptober.

Preptober: What is It?

Preptober is a play on words (duh) for prep and October. This month-long event is for writers prepping for NaNoWriMo in November. NaNoWriMo stands for National Novel Writing Month. I’m not going to go into a lot of details because I don’t want to waste your valuable writing time. If you want to find out more about NaNoWriMo just click on the link to go directly to the website. In short, you write a minimum of 50k words in 30 days. 50k words is essentially a full novel.

October is meant to be the month where you are preparing to write that novel.

Things to Prep

If you are taking the month of October to prep your writing, then there are a few things that you should be starting now:

• Determine what your novel is going to be about
• Characters Building
• World Building
• Outline
• Determine where you will be writing
• Gather Supplies
• Create a writing schedule that works for you
• Organizing your life to prioritize your writing
• How are you going to track your progress

My Preptober Calendar

Sunday	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
						01 Decide what I’m writing
02 Set up October Schedule	03 Gather/Order Writing Supplies	04 Create Tracker	05 Create Tracker	06 Research Writing Resources	07 Create Writing Playlist	08 Create Writing Playlist
09 NaNoWriMo Survival Kit	10 Research	11 Research	12 Research	13 Character Building	14 Character Building	15 Character Building
16 Character Building	17 Character Building	18 World Building	19 World Building	20 World Building	21 World Building	22 World Building
23 Outline	24 Outline	25 Outline	26 Outline	27 Outline	28 Outline	29 Outline
30 Set Up November Schedule	31 Final Prep Day

Happy writing y’all!