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Kamikaze Novel Writing

Posted by michael on from the do-or-do-not,-there-is-no-try dept.

spotmonk writes "November is National Novel Writing Month, and the beginning of this year's nanowrimo program will be starting on Nov 1st. Participants will write a novel of a minimum of 50,000 words in a month's time. Described as valuing enthusiasm and perseverance over talent and craft, nanowrimo takes a kamikaze approach to writing a novel - you may not get the best novel out of it, but at least you've written a novel. Sign-ups last till the end of the month."

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  1. Re:When did mediocrity become something to shoot f by dkellis · · Score: 5, Insightful
    The idea is to break the cycle of "one day I'm going to write a novel", by giving us that one day as a definite date.

    It's just a way to make us write something, no matter how horrible, in order to have a story that we can edit and improve on after November's over.

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  2. It's two different skills... by Big+Sean+O · · Score: 4, Insightful

    There are hack writers and there are blocked writers, but there are no hack blocked writers... :-)

    Many good writers have the skills to write well, it's the writing fast which confounds them.

    My wife is a writer and she summarizes succinctly: "It's easier to fix crap than air".

    Nanowrimo does many would-be writers a service: permission to write lots of crap and then spend the next 11 months fixing it.

    I'm finally going to get that story together next month. It might not be 50,000 words, but it'll be better than nothing.

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