Racking up a “winning” word count (50,000 words) is really the least important piece of this ingenious and successful (IMHO) attempt to herd cats–i.e. get novelists to profit from coming together, briefly, in a project-oriented, web-based social network.
Here, I promise, is my last comment on that…
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Well put, Bill. I may not have written 50,000 words, but I made two videos and posted 17 times in my blog during the month of November. I can thank NaNoWriMo for the motivation, artificial and otherwise, to create create create, no matter what.
I’m with Nick: 37K was a great, freeing experience for me, to just write, write, write a narrative with all the things I was mulling over about living in the Gulf.
For those of you that don’t know, December is NaNoFiMo (National Novel Finishing Month) started a few years ago by someone who got to 50K in Nano and still had more to say. I joined, just because it speaks to one of the things I loved most about Nano – the community of people writing, supporting each other in writing, and laughing about it.
Check it out if you’re curious:
http://www.nanofimo.org/