by Anne R. Allen

Okay, I’ll confess: I have never been tempted to join in NaNoWriMo. That doesn’t mean I don’t admire the heck out of people who can do it.

Charles Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol in a little over month. You can’t argue with that kind of success.

But some writers prefer to spend more time writing the first draft and less time fixing it later, so NaNoWriMo doesn’t work  for them.

Others don’t respond well to the “boot camp” mentality needed to participate in NaNoWriMo. It can even do them physical or psychological harm.

So What Exactly is NaNoWriMo?

Why Join in NaNoWriMo?

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