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"I love Nanowrimo, because it gave me the push I needed to try. I was too inhibited before, the whole writing thing seemed too daunting, and by Nanowrim giving me permission to suck- that's what it took. And my first novel, a labor of love for my little boy, was terrible because I hadn't the slightest idea what I was doing. But then I kept trying to improve. I've edited (or attempted to edit) my last four nano-novels, but mostly I've been working on craft- writing almost every day, listing to writing podcasts, etc. After several years, I only started submitting to market last year. \r\n\r\nMy point is, the reason some Nano-novelists don't have a high publication rate (#17) might be for reasons like mine. They are trying to improve and learn so they don't submit crappy material to market. \r\n\r\n#21 (about Nanowrimo making fun of pro authors) seems obviously a joke to me. You might think it's a joke at authors expense, maybe you're right, but it's hard to read tone on a webpage. In other ways though, Nanowrimo shows that a professional author is what many of us aspire to be.\r\n\r\nThanks for the article. Very interesting!"
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