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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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