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"My first year, I did NaNoWriMo all wrong--I didn't plan ahead, I hadn't read anything on how to write, and I had a bloated idea of my skills. But I wrote. Every day. I banged out my story, and I realized that I loved to write. What I wrote that month wasn't worth much, except it did teach me how to write everyday.\r\nSo I became a writer.\r\nNaNoWriMo isn't really for people who write all year long and are already in the habit (though it can be an awful helpful tool). It's for the green writers, those fresh and enchanted with their skills and their stories. I think it'll help new writers know if they want to pursue their writerling leaning, or forsake it.\r\nThat's why the article on Writer Unboxed about NaNoWriMo was so ... troubling. Why would we want to discourage new writers from NaNoWriMo by calling everything crap? I feel for the agents who get swamped with crappy 50k MS in December, but there are also some agents who've earned thousands off of those MS that came out of NaNoWriMo.\r\nIt's like if the Quilter's Club had a Complete-A-Quilt-In-A-Day party and then laughed at all the new quilters for being not as good as \"real\" quilters."
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