NaNoWriMo 2016 Tip #8: Retain Your Sense of Humor

By Maryann Yin 

Are you feeling stressed out by the National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) challenge? Throughout this thirty day period, it’s important to mitigate any anxieties by laughing and maintaining one’s sense of humor.

The video embedded above features jokes from famed horror author, Stephen King. For more writing-themed laughs, follow these links to check out Weird Al Yankovic’s “Word Crimes” music video, the “Dark Lord Funk” parody video, and CollegeHumor’s “Grammar Nazis” video.

This is our eighth NaNoWriMo Tip of the Day. To help GalleyCat readers who are taking on the challenge of writing a draft for a 50,000-word novel in 30 days, we will be offering advice throughout the entire month.