ext_182904 ([identity profile] dr-pretentious.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] dr_pretentious 2005-11-18 10:42 am (UTC)

The story's sound. Promising the story that it was more important than the word count has made a huge difference, just in the past 24 hours.

I don't know that I'd do Nanowrimo again, but I'm glad to have tried it once.

Orson Scott Card says that writing 100,000 words will teach you more than any MFA program can. MFA programs are an easy target, and I think he overstates the case, but the guy's got a point.

And I think if Nanowrimo had been around when I was in high school and I'd done it a couple of times back then, I might not have been sucked into the far more pernicious cult of academia.

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