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"NaNoWriMo can be a great experience. I've done it for the last few years now. My first attempt I passed by about 600 words and then had a novella which was good in places, but the edit wasn't just going to be an edit. I started with an unorthodox narrative type (collective first person present) and then kept falling out of it. That's a shame as going through the proofreading copy I abandoned like a red-headed stepchild, there's a lot of greatness. The problem is that I was simultaniously too precious (hence the tiny wordcount) and too disorganised (hence the tense) and to edit it would mean ripping every sentence apart and that's why I figure I'll do another draft of it.\r\n\r\nLast year I wrote 70,000 words for a novel I'm now finished with (see step \"Fuck to Police\") and was vastly more organised, both in wordcount and plot. This was the third incarnation of a novel I'd prepared for an was ready to go at it full on. This one yielded the best results, and I realised I was far more serious than I was the year before about my work.\r\n\r\nIf you reckon you can do it, then definitely try."
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