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Originally Posted by Eisengoth
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.  |
Yeah, it's mostly just to stop people from worrying so much about the quality of what they're writing to get the ideas down on paper. Just like every writer mag will tell you to do: don't worry about the quality of the first draft, just write.