How Can We Make NaNoWriMo Work for Us?

After my last post with my collection of tips for planning and starting our NaNoWriMo stories, a couple of comments on social media asked what was the pointof just writing a lot of words. A common assumption about NaNo is that people write gibberish (or close to it) to meet the word count demands of 50K words in one month.

To be sure, some people do write messy stream-of-consciousness rambles that don’t add up to a story. But NaNo writing doesn’t have to be poor quality.

I’ve participated in...