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Speed-writing taken to extremes...

Some people say that there is a novel inside every one of us. The organisers of National Novel Writing Month have taken the next logical step, and set up a website where anyone can log on and submit their novel, but only if you write it quick enough. At www.nanowrimo.org all you have to do is write 50,000 words by the end of November, and your work will be published on the website.

NaNoiWriMo’s organisers encourage participants simply to write as much as possible as fast as possible. Minor considerations such as plot, characterisation, and narrative are deemed unimportant – quantity, not quality, is the order of the day here. The organisers are very encouraging, however: “Writing a novel in a month is both exhilarating and stupid, and we would all do well to invite a little more spontaneous stupidity into our lives.”

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ruth Mitchell .