We know there's a lot of information to absorb in this book, so we've placed this Table of Contents here as a quick reference point. We hope you're hungry.

An overview of the NaNoWriMo Bootcamp initiative and answers to questions we figure you'll ask.

A few important guidelines that we ask all of our participants to follow while engaging on our profile and in the BCM Discord server.

A chronological list of activities centered around the NaNoWriMo Bootcamp initiative.

The Bootcamp Mentors' condensed version of Preptober.

If you're interested in joining us for our story starter discussions, you will find us in the on the BCM Discord server during the month of October. If you aren't on Discord, feel free to post your thoughts and insights in the comment section of the

From Oct 10th through Oct 15th we will host a workshop on Discord in the . You are invited to participate in our server or post your responses in the comments section of the (coming soon)

If you're not interested in our story starter discussions, we also have aand a where you can engage and share ideas with like-minded writers.

If you haven't figured out what your story is about, we encourage you to visit the For those folks not on Discord, join us in the comments section of our . Wherever you decide to engage, there should be some crazy-good creativity going on.

Curating a summary (aka synopsis) during the writing process is beneficial. Not only does it give you a nice road map of your plot points, but if you intend to send your novel around to agents and publishers someday, you will have to write one anyway. You'll be able to share your summaries in our on Discord and here in the of this book.

We know you can't post a story on Wattpad without a fabulous blurb and logline to attract potential readers, so we've created a space where you can share the blurb and logline of your NaNo work in progress. Look for the here in this book and post your story blurb and/or logline in the comments, or join us on Discord and post them in the channel.

Come November, you will be able to share links to your ongoing NaNo WIPs on the of our Discord server. Use the comments section of our in this book to share your links as well. (coming soon)

Come November, daily writing sprints will take place in the of our Discord server to keep folks motivated. You will also find a chapter called in this book for folks who are not on Discord. Just post your writing sprint numbers in the comment section. (coming soon)

A will be set up for folks to share their successes when they reach the word count milestones of 10k, 20k, 30k, 40k, and 50k. Likewise, you will find a in this book where folks can post in the comments when they hit each milestone. This initiative will be run on the honor system. (coming soon)