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Ready, Steady, Write with NaNoWriMo 2009

October 21st, 2009 by Ben - Editor

Nanowrimo

Alert! It’s that time of the year again. NaNoWriMo time. 50 000 words in a month time. Can you handle it? It’s not too late to sign up:

National Novel Writing Month is a fun, seat-of-your-pants approach to novel writing. Participants begin writing November 1. The goal is to write a 175-page (50,000-word) novel by midnight, November 30.

Valuing enthusiasm and perseverance over painstaking craft, NaNoWriMo is a novel-writing program for everyone who has thought fleetingly about writing a novel but has been scared away by the time and effort involved.

Because of the limited writing window, the ONLY thing that matters in NaNoWriMo is output. It's all about quantity, not quality. The kamikaze approach forces you to lower your expectations, take risks, and write on the fly.

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