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Right you are, Steve. Thing is that NaNo can be used in various ways: it can encourage word-production disciplines; it can help force the completion of an idea; or -- in the case I mention here -- it can get a good spontaneous idea roughed out on paper to the stage where it is pretty well editable before that idea goes away.
All three uses seem pretty valuable to me.
Where the NaNo challenge can be misinterpreted and abused in these days of instant 'publication' is when writers think that just because they've managed to churn out 50K words to a deadline, their work is fit for human consumption. I guarantee ... it ain't.
Cheers. Neil
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