[quote=antialiasis]…If writing is W and editing is E, then the normal writing process goes something like this:
WEWEWEWEWEWEWEWEWEWEWEWEWEWEWEWEWEWEWEWEWEWEWE…
And it is painfully depressing to see how long it’s taking you to get to the part you really want to write, which in turn slows you down even more because you have less enthusiasm and get occasionally gripped with the feeling that you’ll never finish and are just wasting your time.
NaNoWriMo goes more like this:
WWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWEEEEEEEEE…
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LOL! I like that way of putting it. It make it sound like we are going “Wwwwwwwwwwwweeeeeee fun!!!!!” rather than crying “wewewewewewewe” all the way home! LOL! I love it!
and quoteing another poster from this same discussion on NaNoWriMo:
[quote=Stoatie]…
(As an aside, I don’t tend to see many professional footballers harassing the kids having a kickabout in the street for not being “real” footballers. Strangely, it would seem the world of sport is more civil than that of writing…)
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and my answer:
you know, as a professional writer of 20+ years, who is now doing my third year of NaNo, I can tell you, that, this is not unusual in the world of publishing. Writers, editors, agents, and publishers can get fierce. Most of them are tempermental and angry about everything… well, maybe not most of them, but when you are out there sending your MS’s in every week, you run up against a lot of compatition and writers go all out trying to stomp out other writers. Why? Easy: there are about 10,000 manuscript for each book that gets in print. That’s a lot of unhappy and unpublished writers that feel they have to take it out on someone.
Well, when it comes to publishing, about 90% of the publishing houses classify as Small Press. Small Press simply means that they are a Traditional Publisher, who pays author royalties, but they publish less than 100 titles per year. Vast majorities of Small Presses publish less than 10 titles per year. Many Small Presses only publish titles within their “niche market”. Some publish only cookbooks, others publish only law books, some only publish books about their local history, some publish only horror, others publish only books written by women over 50, and so on and so forth.
Think about it… 90% of all publishers publish less than 100 titles per year! Most of those same publishing houses recieve over 1,000 manuscripts per week, over 52,000 manuscripts per year, and of those 52,000 less than 100 will see print. As a result, writers often become fighters, and the more competative ones, feel threatened by NaNoWriMo, because they know that if 80,000 more people start writing books, than that’s 80,000 more people they have to fight off in order to get their book published. Writing is, I think, the most stress filled career anyone can choose.
I’ve run into enough sore-heads during my writing career, so that I just laugh at them now. I write the things that I enjoy writng. If it gets published, than yay me! If not, it’s no big deal, I just write something else. For me, writing is fun, I write because I love to write. I love to hear that someone got published. I think it’s great and I do not feel threatened by them. I think the writers (like these anti-NaNo guys) who feel threatened by NaNoers are just not cut out for a career in writing, since they can not handle the stress. They need to find a differant career. (They should also remember that once upon a time, they too, were a new and unpublished writer… it seems they forgot that point.)
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