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"DRAFT ZERO is damn right! I wrote 115k words in about 7 weeks. About 75% through I began getting my real voice, not yammering every thought in my head, and I tied up a decent everyman thriller. Then I let it sit a month or two and tackled the \"second\" draft and just couldn't get off the ground. I realized I was writing about the wrong character. The boring single dad we all want to see get the girl, as Trent would say in Swingers, instead of the dangerous guy we're not sure we like. So draft one is in progress, and a lot cleaner. Light edits as I go. \r\nNaNoWriMo was a great kick in the ass, but little else. Some great novels were written in less time, but even Hemingway's first draft of The Sun Also Rises - 6 weeks- came long after he'd written many well-crafted short stories and learned to whittle his drafts to the bone. Also he had a typewriter, and had to think a lot more before tapping keys.\r\nFor a new writer, NaNoWriMo's best use, in my opinion, is getting out those 100k to One Million words of Crap we all write before we've fine tuned our craft and can sit down and write a good draft once our ideas are stewing."
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