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If you are following the daily wordcount rules, NaNoWriMo is explicitly not about quality. It's about committing to getting stuff on paper so you can work with it. So many of us start a novel and ...
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2019-12-13T12:00:40Z (about 5 years ago)
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2019-12-08T05:45:14Z (about 5 years ago)
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If you are following the daily wordcount rules, NaNoWriMo is explicitly _not_ about quality. It's about committing to getting stuff on paper so you can work with it. So many of us start a novel and never finish it, or never start it at all. Being part of the NaNoWriMo sprint gives you a concrete goal and a community to cheer you on. There is, in fact, _nothing wrong_ with having a crappy first draft. Most first drafts _are_ crap. A first draft which you've written by aiming for a word count is very likely going to be a little extra crappy. _This is fine._ You now have your words on paper. You can see how your ideas did and didn't work. You have clay to make bricks with. You can throw out whole chapers and rewrite them because you saw how it didn't work the first time. Stop worrying about "This is bad." Focus on "this is getting finished." You can edit at leisure.
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2016-11-21T10:45:29Z (about 8 years ago)
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