"Valuing enthusiasm and perseverance over painstaking craft, NaNoWriMo is a novel-writing program for everyone who has thought fleetingly about writing a novel but has been scared away by the time and effort involved.
Because of the limited writing window, the ONLY thing that matters in NaNoWriMo is output. It's all about quantity, not quality. The kamikaze approach forces you to lower your expectations, take risks, and write on the fly.
Make no mistake: You will be writing a lot of crap. And that's a good thing. By forcing yourself to write so intensely, you are giving yourself permission to make mistakes. To forgo the endless tweaking and editing and just create. To build without tearing down."
But I do not constrict to a novel. Some people dream in stories, others in poems, some dance with numbers, with others only seeing in pictures. Whatever it is that you come through, this is the month to do it. If you'd like. It is up to you. But it is nice just to see if you can and not worry about the result and just focus on thhe process. Do not think just write.
Writing is a fantastic tool anyways to clear the mind and see ideas/situations better. It like sending many traffic cops up into your mind and directing where you wish to put all your ideas, thoughts, words, doubts, hopes, worries, fears, passions, and no doubt many other thing.
I had a teacher who told me about writing, "You have to get all the bad words/stories out of the way before you can get to the good one. And I put the number of bad words to be about a million." So write. If not, just to rack up more words for your one million total. Do not matter if it is shitty or not, I do not we are ones to fairly judge our own works in the first place. It is not really up to us to decide if it is good or not. We just, sort of, give them away to the world to do with as they please in hopes of them liking and accepting them. The rest is semantics.
Students are taught of the authors intention and syboloism in the stories read and written. Of how and why he or she used a certain fruit in a certain situation or why a certain name was chosen. After having a friend read one my stories she began to explain me what my story meant. She asked me if she was right and I responded with an "I don't know. I only wrote it."
A story was told to me of a man who was a professional disk shooter (excuse me for forgetting the actual name). Everyday (everyday), for ten years (3,650 days), he would drive out to the shooting range and practice. Everyday. He said,"I went out there every day for ten years and then you know what happened? Then, I started getting good." It took him everyday for ten years before he began "getting good." Be patient with yourself. You have time. And plenty of it. Do not rush. Take your time. And write. Keep writing. And when you think there is nothing left, that there is no more to be said, continue on. See what else is there. For there lies the essential. And try not to think. There is no room for thinking when writing 50,000 words in a month.
