Is anyone else doing this? You should. It's easy. Quantity over quality? I'm there.

National Novel Writing Month

I started just now, five days late, and I got through 622 words in 25 minutes. I am SO SET. It's utter tripe, but I'm proud of myself. I'm racing so fast that until I'm done, I may have to cut kitty time down to 30 minutes a day. Sample bullshit written on the fly [note, I am not deleting ANYTHING]:

brushed them off. I read their online diaries though. I knew what they were up to. It was a whole lot less energetic than writing back to them about their lives, or even about mine. See how postmodern I can be? Stream of consciousness bullshit. Now I am coming back on-stream. It was an hour into the walk and slightly tired and the light was fading in late October and I saw in the distance, down a side street off the main road I was walking down, which was a straggly sort of semi-commercial runway with streetlights recently flickered into

That took about 90 seconds. I am going to win, and I'm kind of proud of this. A mad student at my school is writing her novel on paper, and then will type it out. That's a big old mess of work, but I hope she makes it in the end.

My sentences are too long.

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Time is the distance that you can't return by miles.

I escaped somehow. Let's go

actualy [sic] I have quite a blessed life if I'm honest. I have many people to love, hate few and have few money problem's [sic].... What more does a person need? Oh yeah and I have some kind of humbleness unlike you of course ^_^ ~ CarefulCarpenter

Your novel sounds interesting. What's it about? Synopsis?

I would try it but I've got exams. Next month, damnit!

i have tried this every year and inevitably give up. i don't think it's for me.

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Raise the dead on your turntable.

in principle i agree with writing crap approach, just to get something down, then good work is done when deciding what you throw away and in polishing what remains. but unless the first draught is something i'm at least half interested in i can't be arsed with improving it.

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The idea of this gives me pretty mixed feelings. On one hand, it seems like a great idea to get people inspired about writing and self-expression. On the other, it seems like it's encouraging bad writing habits, but by that I probably just mean habits different to my own. I like to structure obsessively, it takes me days to perfect a page. Doesn't bode well for the essay I'm writing at the moment, 1500 words about Marx down, 1500 left to go!