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"Some people look at NaNoWriMo as the be all and end all of writing a novel. Feh. I used it my first time to do the one thing I had NEVER done before - finish a story. This taught me that I could finish something I started.\r\n\r\nWould I try to sell it? Are you out of your mind? 50K words consisting of \"nipple sandwich\" would constitute better reading than what I came up with.\r\n\r\nBut it was a FINISHED STORY. For those of us who get involved in it, it can be a way of driving ourselves. It can be a way to say \"Fine. It's not a contest, but I've now got a damned REAL deadline, rather than one I set for myself.\" (Don't know why external ones work better sometimes, but they do.)\r\n\r\nI intend to work on a real novel this November. I've been spending the past few days on plot/outline for it. I've got pics for the main characters, I've got destinations worked out, and all sorts of things. I've even written out a handful of scenes already.\r\n\r\nReally, NaNoWriMo is no different than Starbucks, in a way. Both develop the gathering of dorkfish who sit there pretentiously and use it to say \"I am an artiste, because I am here.\" They also get real people who are motivated, but just need that little push.\r\n\r\nI can honestly say that getting that little push led to me getting a story published in an anthology, and I've got a second one in the pipeline for another anthology. All because NaNo taught me I could finish a story."
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