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Originally Posted by crich70
Ah, but isn't a basic rule of writing the fact that a book isn't written but re-written? Most authors I imagine would admit that they do a good deal of editing of their 1st draft.
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Hah... not if you listen to Dean Koontz. He only writes once, dontcha know?
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Originally Posted by William F
From the website. "Who: You! We can't do this unless we have some other people trying it as well. Let's write laughably awful yet lengthy prose together."
Doesn't sound like a very good idea to me. Encouraging people to write crap is an interesting theory but I'll just stick to actually caring enough to do my best.
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They're not encouraging people to write crap. They're encouraging people to
write. The point of NaNo is to help all those people who get bogged down jumping from topic to topic, or endlessly revising so much that they never actually get past the 10,000 word mark or so. The idea is to help those people let go and actually get a longer story written by imposing a deadline, so that they don't have time to be a perfectionist.
The OLL has a bit of a tongue-in-cheek sense of humor. It's fine and all to do your best, but if you never
finish anything while "doing your best", you're not really accomplishing anything. If you're already finishing work while "doing your best", then you may not need what NaNo provides. Of course, you'd also be missing out on a rollicking good time and a great community in the process.
