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Originally Posted by William F
But vomiting forth 50000 words of stream of consciousness so you can proclaim yourself a novelist is somehow an accomplishment?
If you're a writer, you write and you don't need some sort of manufactured special club to encourage you to do it. If you're not a writer then spend that month doing something else you enjoy.
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Most of the people who actually
enjoy writing take the time to have some fun and try something new. I think Sanderson wrote the whole of Alloy of Law and a couple of the Alcatraz books during NaNo.
It's a chance to do something and
have fun , something "serious" authors sometimes forget to do.
As for the people who "compete" in NaNo every year, some spend the months leading up to NaNo as a chance to world build and outline, so the "stream of conscious vomit" that you're talking about isn't entirely true.
Is it easy to "cheat" at NaNo? Sure. All you have to do is copy/paste The Quick Brown Dog 10,000 times.
It's a judgement free chance to get out there and play.
I've got a couple friends who did the first draft of their books in three weeks and have gone back to the drawing board and expand upon their work to create NYT Best Sellers.
You know, people like Mary Robinette Kral.
If you decide that NaNo is some super special club that you'd rather stay away from, then by all means...be our guest. But this isn't a No Homers Club. Try it, you just might like it.
It's an actual time of the year where people (wait for it) WRITE!
That said, we used to have a special club for the NaNo participants here at MR. It's nice to see some familiar faces coming back out to play (HI FILARK!)