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on Creativity Under Pressure

And in case you're curious, here's a list of books that started as Nanowrimo novels and got professionally published.

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on Creativity Under Pressure

If you want to participate in National Novel Writing Month you can check it out at www.nanowrimo.org There's nothing better than working under a crushing deadline with thousands of other people! It's even more fun as a Municipal Liaison, or local herder of authors. Organizing writers can be like herding cats sometimes!

It really is an incredible event. I said it when I called in and it's true - if you write with no expectations, with complete acceptance that you could be writing complete bunk, inevitably you end up getting jewels in there somewhere. It's certainly not going to be a finished product, more of a "zero" draft than a first draft, even, but it'll be done, on paper. Editing is its own hurdle but you can't ever get to editing if it's not on paper first!

I have a friend who starts so many, many stories and never seems to get past the planning stages. She plans and plots and builds worlds and the story itself just dies. I consider myself blessed to have 2 1st drafts completely done and one more within a few chapters of finished. Before Nanowrimo i had never gotten that far.

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