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Audacity, Novel Writing, and the Month of November

This isn’t a case of “One of these things are not like the others.” Sure, they’re all different things – but in order to stick the last two together, you have to have a heaping dose of the first. Anybody who tries to write 50,000 words in a month has to be just a bit audacious (or crazy, to put it another perhaps more truthful way).

I’m cough trying it out myself for the first time, attempting to write a first draft of that great American novel that we all aspire to – and its the experience of being in the trenches, actually doing it, that makes me really appreciate Neven Morgan’s impassioned defense of the NaNoWriMo concept in the face of the skeptics:

There’s no need to get negative about the efforts of many smart, nice people on the very first day they roll up their sleeves. They’re taking on something demanding, new, fun, and entirely victimless. They’re the 9-year-old with a skateboard and visions of Tony Hawk, the high-school sophomore with a programming book and a sketching app all worked out in his head, the girl with a guitar from Target and tabs to ‘Sweet Jane’ she downloaded online. There’s neither victory nor samaritanism in telling them they’ll fail.

Nov 06, 2009 :: Tagged under: , , :: #