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I f youre a writer and you belong to any sort of writing communityin person, online, it doesnt matteras fall heads into full swing, you start hearing the murmurs of National Novel Writing Month.
NaNoWriMo is in Novemberbut people start talking about it as soon as the leaves start to change. The goal is to write 50,000 words in the 30 days of November.
And it doesnt even matter if you want to try to write 50,000 words in thirty days. It certainly doesnt matter whether you want to hear about other writers preparing to bang their heads against their keyboards in abstract misery for the whole month of November.
If youre a writer, you find yourself caught up in the energy because suddenly everyone and their mother and their next door neighbor and the girl who made your coffee is getting ready for NaNoWriMo.
My professional opinion, as a published novelist and a writing teacher, is that NaNoWriMo sucks. I love it. But man, it sucks. I mean, it has its place (Ill get to that in a minute), but as a method for becoming a real, working writer? Not so much.
NaNoWriMo sucks. For two reasons.
Those 50,000 words dont make up a novel, unless youre writing for middle grade kids or younger. A novel for young adults or adults is generally at least 65,000 to 70,000 words long.
You can indie publish whatever you want. If your plan is to try to traditionally publish, youre going to have a hard time convincing an agent or publisher that 50,000 words is long enough.
Those 50,000 words that were banged out at breakneck speed are not publishable. Please dont argue with me. They arent publishable. Just trust me.
Chances are good that youre going to reach December needing the next eleven months to recover from your NaNoWriMo experience. You cant actually build a career on pounding down 50,000 words every November and never really looking at them again.
Practically every writer I know has at least one 50,000 word great start that they wrote in November, and none that theyve been willing to spend the rest of the year working on turning into a publishable novel (of actual novel length).
Think about it. If you rush through 50,000 words of a really fantastic idea, are you really going to want to start over if you messed up somewhere along the way?
Are you going to want to rewrite it in January, when you realize where you went wrong? Or, are you going to just stick with what you have, because its already done?
NaNoWriMo unnecessarily turns writing your novel into a race, which puts your wonderful ideas at risk. And thats just a crying shame.
Its fun, and like any other red-blooded writer I get caught up in the energy of it every stinking year. But its just not the best way to write a novel.
It advances the idea that writing a novel is something you should be able to do in 30 days. It drives anyone who loves a writer crazy.
And yet. And yet, and yet, and yet. NaNoWriMo changed my life.
I wrote the very first draft of my very first novel during NaNoWriMo in 2004. I was very, very pregnantmy daughter was born on December 8and very, very miserable. I needed something to distract me from the longest November the world has ever known.
NaNoWriMo fit the bill. And finishing a (very, very shitty) first draft, that wasnt long enough and was most definitely not publishable, changed something inside me.
Thats what NaNoWriMo is good for.
For me, it changed write a novel from a long-running New Years Resolution and a far-off, someday dream, to something that I knew for sure I could do. It didnt matter that what I produced sucked. Un-sucking it was just mechanics and I knew I could learn that.
NaNoWriMo is good for getting you to sit your ass in your chair and write. It helps you to cage your inner editor (I call mine Blythe) and just let the words flow.
Its great for energy and enthusiasm and hooking up with other writers so that youre not isolated with your stories.
Im all in, even though Im a total rebel and I dont follow the official rules.
Im all in, even though I do my best to encourage as many of you to break the rules with me as I possibly can.
Im all in, because NaNoWriMo does more than anything else I know to convince people who want to be writers that its possible.
For me, November is a month for reconnecting with a daily writing habit thats super easy to let slip away when I have a lot of things going on that feel like writing, but really arent.
I break the rules and set my own goal every year.
Thats kind of a big deal, right? Two decades. Some very well known novels started out as NaNoWriMo projects, including Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen, Wool by Hugh Howey, and Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell.
It stands to reason that as more time passes, and more people participate in NaNoWriMo year after year, even more amazing stories will come from it. I wonder if one of them will be yours.
Ive been operating an online writing school and communityNinja Writerssince 2015. So, for a long time, Ive headed into NaNoWriMo every year with some of the most talented, kickass writers on the planet.
And after all that time, I have completely given up any effort to try to override this juggernaut. Im just not loud enough or big enough to override the mania that overtakes the global writing community every November. Trust me, Ive tried every possible way. Ive tried running my own programs. Ive tried ignoring it all. Ive tried begging. None of it works.
So, I gave up and joined the ruckus. But I do my best to start a rebellion from the inside.
Well, thats easy. Because its ridiculous to write a novel in 30 daysunless thats the way your flow rolls.
I spend the rest of every year helping these kickass writers work on their amazing novels and it breaks my heart to see even one of them try to slam the whole freaking thing out in thirty days by force.
It isnt that I think that writing 50,000 words in a month is impossible. Its not. Ive done it. In fact, I do it most months between blogging and writing fiction. Millions of people have done it. Like I said, bestselling books have resulted. So, you know. Its not impossible.
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