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[dragonoflife]

I'm not doing NaNoWriMo, officially anyway. I'm doing what writing I can, but I'm aiming for a different goal: Publication.

To that extent, the amount I write is less relevant to my goal than the quality and completeness of my work. 50,000 words in a quarter-finished novel is worse than 10,000 of a complete story.

This is not me disparaging the event by any means, simply a statement that my goals are different!

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[tigerphoenix.livejournal.com]

:P!

[siliconrose.livejournal.com]

I'm aiming for publication as well, but I typically just can't get down the words in a first draft. NaNo is a great way to get yourself to just write. From that point, editing is easy.*

The thing is, I want to publish novels. That means I have to write them. It helps that Familiar is YA-targeted, so short is okay. MiaC may end up being 2-3 NaNos worth.

* This is a lie we tell ourselves in NaNo to make the process tolerable.

[dragonoflife.livejournal.com]

As do I, which is one reason I'm focusing on getting short fiction published, ironically enough.