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There is no harm in starting Nanowrimo with a basic plot outline. Writing without plotting is very hard, and few people other than Stephen King can pull it off, as I said in another answer. The re...
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System
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2019-12-08T01:59:59Z (almost 5 years ago)
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Shantnu Tiwari
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2019-12-08T01:59:59Z (almost 5 years ago)
There is no harm in starting Nanowrimo with a basic plot outline. Writing without plotting is very hard, and few people other than Stephen King can pull it off, as I said in another [answer](https://writers.stackexchange.com/questions/4027/what-is-a-discovery-writer/4030#4030). The reason many people fail at writing is because they fail to finish anything. Everyone has great ideas, about books that will become best sellers, movies that will win Oscars, poetry that will move everyone to tears. But ideas are a dime a dozen. Ideas require hard work, sweat and tears to convert them to something useful and beautiful, something that people would be willing to pay for. Nanowrimo is perfect for you. You say you have been plotting for years, yet you have written nothing. Why is that? There are some things that cannot be done. You cannot become a writer without writing. So drop all the analysing and thinking, and start typing your book.
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System
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2011-10-13T16:06:03Z (about 13 years ago)
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