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msconduct ([personal profile] msconduct) wrote2003-11-08 05:08 pm

NoNoWriMo

I really don't get NaNoWriMo.

First of all, it's got a fantastically irritating name. (Or possibly na.) And it's not very Na, either, since there seem to be plenty of non-US scribblers anxious to join in.

But most of all: point. What is it? Writing's not a speed event; not is it an endurance event. So what are you supposed to get out of churning out a giant chunk of prose at light speed? It might be as long as a novel, but it sure ain't going to be one.

If you're the kind of writer that can't write three words without crossing out four, well, OK. It might be a useful writing exercise. Otherwise, you're throwing your pixels away.

[identity profile] isaacfreeman.livejournal.com 2003-11-08 12:53 am (UTC)(link)
This is pretty much where I got to after five hours of a 24 hour comic. It was already going downhill, and there was no way I was going to end up with anything I was pleased with.Whereupon I was forced to confront the question "What purpose is served by continuing?"
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[identity profile] badasstronaut.livejournal.com 2003-11-08 01:08 am (UTC)(link)
People love these little gimmicky things. Maybe it motivates some people just to get started, I don't know. I'm not sure that I'm a natural joiner of movements.