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"NaNoWriMo makes my holiday season very unhappy. Throughout October, I get an influx of new clients and soon-to-be-participants all wanting rudimentary (and repetitive) advice on how to get started. Then in November, I'm deluged by people looking for pats on the head and encouragement. And then in December, people talk about the process like they just survived a war zone, dismissing too easily the fact that some people do this every day of every month.\r\n\r\nAm I excited to see people put down 50k words in a month? Sure, I think that's awesome.\r\nDoes it bother me that most people don't do anything with the manuscript after November? Entirely. \r\n\r\nIf you're serious about it, I mean really serious about being a writer, then you should be writing every day and when the manuscript is done get it edited and think about marketing and publishing it. Do something with it, else you're labeling writing as frivolous, something you can breeze into and out of without concern for the future - and that's crappy. \r\n\r\nI'm still waiting to see National Surgery Performing Month and National Pro Bono Public Defender Month...if it's so easy to do this job in thirty days, let's take the show on the road and mock it like it's hot."
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