Wednesday, November 7, 2018

Another day, more words to vomit.

And that, dear Reader, is the mantra of NaNoWriMo (and NaBloPoMo to some extent). What's the point to all of this word vomit? To get as many ideas down as possible. Cleaning it up into a workable text comes later. A rough draft is precisely that, rough. There is going to be a lot of stuff that when you come back to the manuscript is just bloat and needs to be cut down. There is also going to be a lot of stuff that needs to have more detail filled in. This makes up for however much you need to cut out of your manuscript in the editing process, trust me.

Just pour it all out on the page. No matter how undignified it may feel. Sometimes your best work comes out of what felt like it was complete garbage.

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