Writers?

[little_man]

National Novel Writing Month (though it's since gone international) is fast approaching.  Are there any other members on here who participate in the 50,000 word novel in November challenge?

It'd be neat to have a nudist writing group.

[brandon]

National Novel Writing Month (though it's since gone international) is fast approaching.

Salon.com writer Laura Miller takes on National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) ...

Better yet, DON'T write that novel
Why National Novel Writing Month is a waste of time and energy

Frankly, there are already more than enough novels out there -- more than those of us who still read novels could ever get around to poking our noses into, even when it's our job to do so. This is not to say that I don't hope that more novels will be written, particularly by the two dozen-odd authors whose new books I invariably snatch up with a suppressed squeal of excitement. (Actually, there are more of those novels than I'll ever be able to read, as well.) Furthermore, I know that there are still undiscovered or unpublished authors out there whose work I will love if I ever manage to find it. But I'm confident those novels would still get written even if NaNoWriMo should vanish from the earth.

Yet while there's no shortage of good novels out there, there is a shortage of readers for these books.

her full rant