As always, I think it's all more complicated...
Yet another year in which other commitments mean that I shan't be doing NaNoWriMo.
However, I've been reading this, which has some quite sensible things to say about forward momentum and letting it rip.
But I'm also thinking that a messy and unedited first draft without any going back and polishing and picking up inconsistencies may be messy and need work, but that doesn't necessarily make it shitty.
Just because something needs work or has room for improvement doesn't necessarily make it all that bad to start with.
(Though I am led to believe that sometimes when young scholars get a paper back from a journal after refereeing they skip right over the bit which says 'this is a good paper and interesting stuff and almost there' and go right to the bit after 'but' which is about what it needs to make it a really great paper.)
I entirely see the point of chucking out the idea that It's Got To Be Perfect First Time, but I'm not sure the corollary is that First Time Is Going To Be Crap .
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