As you all know, I am a NaNoWriMo winner! I promise after this post, you will not hear much more about it. If you also participated in NaNoWriMo and won…Congrats! You are awesome. Even if you didn’t win, you still worked hard and that deserves acknowledgment.

Now, NaNoWriMo is challenging yourself, but as with any contest, there are prizes if you win! Today I am going to tell you about the prizes available to those who hit that 50K word count goal.

 

Winner’s Prizes

 

 

Scrivener and Scapple

Literature & Latte is giving NaNoWriMo winners 50% off their purchase price of Scrivener and Scapple. This offer expires November 1st, 2019.

Scrivener is designed to aid you in the creation of your first draft, helping you organize your research and find a structure for your novel along the way. You can also get 50% off Scapple, our easy to use tool for getting ideas down and making connections between them.

 

 

Dabble

Winners can also receive 50% off of Dabble. This offer is good until December 31st, 2018.

Dabble organizes your manuscript and includes your story notes to make writing as easy as possible. It takes minutes to learn, helps you plan and plot, tracks word count, and automatically submits your word count to NaNoWriMo as you write. Online, offline, Chromebooks, and desktops, sync between them all.

 

 

DropBox

DropBox is a service many of you might be familiar with. They are one of many sponsors of NaNoWriMo.

Get started on your next best-seller with Dropbox Paper—it’s more than a doc, it’s a workspace that brings creation and coordination together in one place. Sign up for free at dropbox.com/paper.

 

 

Creative Live Classes

Creative Live Class is something that I was not familiar with until now. They are offering winners $20 off any of their classes. This offer is only good until January 1st, 2019 so be sure to get yours.

 

CreativeLive helps you answer your calling with classes in writing and entrepreneurship available 24/7, even offline. From becoming a story genius to publishing an eBook, literary greats will teach you how to take a big step forward with your work.

 

IngramSpark

This is a way to self-publish the novel you worked so hard this month. The offer expires March 31st, 2019. Winners can upload their book for free and receive free revisions. On top of that, winners will also receive 15% off when they print between 1-25 copies of their new book.

 

Why not publish your new book with IngramSpark, an award-winning self-publishing platform that offers you quality and distribution to sell your book wherever readers expect to find it?

 

 

AutoCrit

AutoCrit is offering winners an extra chance to win one of five lifetime AutoCrit memberships. There will be an exclusive “Winners-only” drawing on December 5th, 2018 so be sure you enter.

 

 

The Great Courses Plus

The Great Courses Plus is offering winners a one-month free trial and 50% off for six months. This offer expires December 16th, 2018.

 

The Great Courses Plus is a subscription Video-On-Demand service brought to you by The Great Courses, the leading global media brand for lifelong learning and personal enrichment. With over 8,000 in-depth videos taught by the world’s greatest professors, you’ll always have something fascinating to learn about.

 

 

Rescue Time

Rescue time is now offering winners 50% off of a lifetime membership for Rescue Time Premium. The offer expires January 31st, 2019.

 

RescueTime Premium lets you set goals for your daily writing time, automatically track progress on your novel, block distracting websites, and get helpful insights into your writing patterns and habits.

 

 

ReaderCoin

This is something I have never heard of…ever. Winners can fill out a form and receive an extra 500 Readercoin but this offer only lasts until December 31st, 2018.

 

Readercoin PAYS authors to promote themselves and enables you to track—down to the minute—how much time your audience spends reading or listening to your work. You can trade your Readercoin for valuable gift cards at Amazon, Paypal, etc. Imagine seeing your reading and listening time go up each day as more people discover you. That’s the MAGIC of Readercoin. Get the app, then, post your story, one chapter at a time or all at once, and watch the readers come to you! You earn 1 Readercoin for every 10 minutes anyone spends reading. Readercoin is better than free promotion. It’s promotion that PAYS!

 

 

FocusMe

FocusMe is offering 40% off of a first year subscription or a lifetime membership to all winners. But, don’t wait long…this offer is only good until December 15th, 2018.

 

FocusMe is the tool used by many writers and other professionals to beat distractions and unleash their true productivity. Block websites and applications that prevent you from writing your 50,000 words. It also has a robust Scheduler, Time Tracking, Time Limiter, Break Reminders, and much more. It’s also one third  the price of some of our competition! Check our reviews online.

 

 

Storyist

Unfortunately this is a prize only for those who own MAC computers. Storyist is offering 50% off their program for MAC but only until January 15th, 2019.

 

 

4TheWords

Winners are offered 50% off of all Core Crystal packages for 4TheWords. This is an online game where you must write to battle monsters and gain better armor, etc. The offer is good until March 31st, 2019.

 

At 4thewords, you can continue to use your word count to battle monsters; collect, craft, and equip items; defeat bosses; save towns; complete quests; and journey through a world in need of a hero. It’s a writing adventure like none other and our special event for November continues until December 5th!

 

Prizes for everyone

Some of the winner prize companies offer a smaller percentage off for those that did not hit the 50K word count so be sure to check those out.

 

Fictionary

This is a prize for anyone who participated in NaNoWriMo. They are giving everyone 50% off of a monthly or annual membership. The offer expires on December 21st, 2018.

 

Fictionary helps writers like you tell better stories with online software that simplifies story editing. Story editing is your opportunity to improve the structure, characters, plot, and settings of your story and finish your novel.

 

 

 

Story Planner

Now all participants can receive 30% off of Story Planner but only until December 8th, 2018. Unfortunately, this is also a MAC only program.

 

 

Scribophile

Hurry and grab your 20% off of a premium membership upgrade because the offer expires December 15ht, 2018.

 

Scribophile is one of the largest independent writing communities online. We’re founded on exchanging thoughtful and respectful feedback on each other’s writing so that we can all learn, grow, and improve on the path to publication. Our forums are busy seven days a week with writers of all skill levels talking shop and helping each other out in a friendly and supportive environment.

 

 

Tapas

If you submit your novel to their writer’s camp for a chance to win $1000 and a publishing contract. How cool is that? The contest runs until January 13th, 2019.

 

Tapas Media is a web and mobile platform for readers and creators to share, discover, and publish comics and novels. With over 3 billion views and 1.6 million readers, we’re here to help storytellers publish their work and support them as they build fan communities and continue to create the stories they love. If you have a story to tell, Tapas can help you share it with the world.

 

 

Zoetic Press

Is your story big, complex, multi-threaded or multi-POV? Zoetic Press uses Lithomobilus to create a reading experience that allows readers to engage with your work in new ways, and allows you to make the fullest, best use of your text.

 

 

Swoon Reads

Swoon Reads is so excited to be a NaNoWriMo sponsor! As you embark on your 50,000 word journey, we’re here to offer advice and answer any questions you may have. To stay motivated this month, check out our blog and writing tips. Once you finish your novel, be sure to visit SwoonReads.com (and download the app!) for a chance to get your young adult novel published by Macmillan!

From epic fantasy to all the feels romance: if our readers love it, we publish it!

 

 

 

My Thoughts

Some of these do not really interest me where others I am super excited about. First, I would like to mention that you can always buy some great NaNoWriMo gear from their website here. You can buy a NaNoWriMo winner’s shirt or some other awesome gear to show off your amazing NaNoWriMo skills. I think I might buy the NaNoWriMo 2018 winner’s t-shirt.

I would also like to thank all of the amazing sponsors. To see the entire list of wonderful sponsors, click here. Many of these are offering discounts for NaNoWriMo participants who did not quite make their 50K word count but still worked hard and put in a good effort.

Ok…so, onto what I think about these prizes and what I might choose to buy. First, I think I will look into Scrivener and Scapple. I have heard some great things and would love to try it out. From what I have heard, Scrivener can format your book for you once you are done writing it very easily. It seems like an overall wonderful writing tool that I would enjoy learning to use.

Secondly, I am obsessed with the idea of 4TheWords. I could not stop telling my husband about how cool that was. A game where I can play and have to write to defeat monsters…that is one heck of a way to get me motivated to write.

I might look into something like RescueTime but I am not sure yet. The online classes…I will look into them but probably not use any.

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What prizes are you claiming? Let me know in the comments below. I would love to discuss any of these if you already use them.