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In keeping with NaNoWriMo’s focus on padding, I’m posting two Demotivators this month where one would suffice:
NaNoWriMo
The challenge of an arbitrary target and deadline
without the burden of any expectation of quality.
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Photo by Michael Connors, the founder of MorgueFile.
And, because I don’t want to wait another year to use this:
NaNoWriMo
Anyone can be a writer, if you set the bar low enough.
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I HAVE A REASON!
Reason to stop writing:
The NaNoWriMo site is down.
This is a sign.
Even the pit of shit doesn’t want your book.
If you don’t mind me asking, what exactly is your beef with Bruce Sterling? You’d mentioned that a couple of posts back, something about he and Warren Ellis seducing readers and then appalling them off as they found other, better writers. I know Zenith Angle was pretty bad, but (and it’s been years since I’ve read anything by him) what’s wrong with his work, in your opinion?
Now’s not the time to mention that I weakened and asked for advice for a NaNoWriMo subject?
Heather, “the pit of shit” is so … eloquent.
Paul, do you carry a stick with you, for all the shit you like to stir? And what is the nature of Bruce Sterling’s beef?
Why should I use a stick when my hand works just as well?
At least with a stick you can burn it afterwards.
I don’t think any amount of washing can get that kind of shit off…
Sean, I check around and I appear to have hallucinated the whole thing. Carry on.
Are visitors authorized to copy these Demotivators for use on their Facebook or blogs? Just wondering. These succinctly explain why I’m not NaNoWriMo-ing.
Yes, absolutely. I really must remember to make that clear every month.
NaNoWriMo was fun once! I can tell my friends that I’m almost a novelist because i wrote a crappy one-fifth-of-a-NaNoWriMo-novel in half a month…:) heehee
You are all sadly mistake and need to go to hell. When was the last time taht you sat down in a month wrote a fucking novel? when is the last time you were published. What the fuck do you think you are doing by dissing the rest of us who have participated in something that none of you have any experience in? i am fucking sixteen adn wrote over 70,000 words in taht month and it changed my life. you should be ashamed.
Hey guys. NaNoWriMo lover here. You’re entitled to your opinion and all that, I don’t mind, but not every NaNoWriMo novel is posted on the internet[thank God, most are not]. Sure, a lot of them are cliched piles of shit. Not all of them are, some actually turned into published works of art with lots of reworking. Look, the first draft of ANYTHING is shit, right? A famous author said that. Kudos if you know who I’m talking about. I mean, writers don’t just bend over and pull fantastic prose and poetry out of their anuses. It doesn’t work like that. Whatever you end up with at the end of November, well, it might have potential or it may need to be deleted, burned, and never spoken of again, but through the journey you, as one who likes to write, WILL have learned a lot. This experience will enrich and improve your writing in the future; One day, if you keep the free-writing up, take the time to edit/rework and rewrite your manuscripts, you might end up with something really, really special. That’s worth trying for, I think.
Everybody’s got to start somewhere. Why, since I wrote that first novel quite a few years ago[oh lord was it terrible], there’s been nowhere to go but up. I’m only getting better every time I push myself to write without thinking - I learn what my style is, I relax, I exercise my brain in strange, wonderful little ways, I appreciate published books more and more, and I have a lot of fun. That’s the point, you know? Having fun. Not getting published, Lord knows I’ll probably never make it to that point - but everybody’s got to have a dream, right? Something they strive for.
Caitlin does not speak for all of us. I’m kind of embarrassed about that. She kind of proved a lot of your points by misspelling, not using proper grammar, and she was kind of a bitch about it… I mean, I was angry too, when I read some of the things on this website, but I chilled out before I replied… The way to have a discussion between two opposing sides isn’t through insults.
Anywho, my .o2 cents.
Just so you know…
What you say about NaNoWriMo might discourage some people who may have had potential. That’s fine. Those of us who truly have a passion and love to write will not be affected at all. Those of us that write because we need to, because we love to - Those of us who have the passion - Well, nothing will keep us from doing what we do. Especially not naysayers.
In the end, it boils down to this, er, slightly modified quote from Ratatouille:
“Anyone can /write/. But only the fearless can be great.”