Why I Don’t Like Anti-NaNoWriMo Snobbery

This post might well come across as grumpy. Partly, I’m blaming the weather—as I write, Tokyo is getting its first snowfall in November for 54 years, and it’s grim. Mainly, I’m blaming…well, you’ll see.

I’m talking National Novel Writing Month, aka NaNoWriMo, and the negativity it generates with some writers. For those who don’t know what NaNoWriMo is, it’s basically an initiative that gets people to try and write a 50,000-word novel within November. More here: http://nanowrimo.org. In places...