101 Reasons to Stop Writing

I’ve said a lot this month about the challenge of writing a novel in 30 days, not all of it positive. But I don’t know what you think, and unlike your typical NaNo participant, I don’t expect you to read through thousands of words of the written equivalent of that feeling you get when you eat poorly cleaned shrimp before asking for your opinion.

So put yourself in this hypothetical frame of mind: you’re about to purchase a novel (a stretch for some of you, I’m sure), you’re reading the back cover blurb, and you discover this nugget of information:

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While you’re here, if you know of any examples of novels written in 30 days or less — that don’t suck, like a mudslide in a collapsing mineshaft — please let me know in the comments below. (You can’t mention your own novel, unless it was published by a company that paid you, and copies were sold to people you don’t know.)