Ruadhán J. McElroy
Just write. Write about things you know -- whether that's real life, or speciality genres you've been reading since you were five. Accept that not everything you write will be groundbreaking, great, or even good -- accept constructive critiques from readers of all sorts, but work on it in whatever way works for you.
It's not a race. NaNoWriMo is a cute idea, but let's be frank, compared to the large number of people who start it, almost no-one completes it (not even those who give themselves extra time), and it's even rarer that it's "good enough" to even consider publishing without heavy re-working over the next three to six months or more. If you want to take that as a fire to light under your arse to actually start writing, be my guest, but don't beat yourself up if you don't finish by 30 November -- just finish it.
It's not a race. NaNoWriMo is a cute idea, but let's be frank, compared to the large number of people who start it, almost no-one completes it (not even those who give themselves extra time), and it's even rarer that it's "good enough" to even consider publishing without heavy re-working over the next three to six months or more. If you want to take that as a fire to light under your arse to actually start writing, be my guest, but don't beat yourself up if you don't finish by 30 November -- just finish it.
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