You should be grinding your teeth at having to go to your 9 to 5 job and counting off the minutes until you're able to leave that job and return to the work you love. Every day of the damn year you should be waking up each morning yearning to get to work on that book of yours. The aforementioned impetus should be coming from your natural desire to write. However, a mess of a rough draft is often what you get if you start a novel at your own pace anyhow. Having the impetus or extraneous force of a schedule and a community of likemindeds compelling one to just bloody write is not a bad thing. It might be useful for new writers, who are sometimes afraid of or anxious to place word to paper. Chances are you'll be left with a lot of words on the page and very little structure, an amoeba novel if you will.ĭon't get me wrong, it's not a bad concept, forcing yourself to write a rough draft within 30 days. In essence, what you get if you follow Baty's program and do the Nanowrimo challenge is a microcosm or truncation of the usual novel first draft: a laying down of the bare-bones of your intended book as fast as you possibly can regardless of how embarrassingly awful the outcome. You feel tremendous relief, but it really stinks. No plot?.Yes, that is a problem! Free-flow writing is like having the shits.
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