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[kdbleu]

not for me... I'm good, which is kind of the point actually.

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[daybreak777]

I'm listening! Don't have much to say but interesting what you think of Nano. For me and fic, I thought finishing was the most important thing but how you finish is more important. There are some stories I rushed and well, every time I read them I can feel that. And I read them more than anyone else, you know?

How something is done is just as important as getting it done. I agree with you there!

[kdbleu]

I also think, possibly unfairly, because of that 'just' finish over 'quality' finish thing about Nano that people end up with a false sense of accomplishment. They don't have a novel. They have 50k words. Makes me think of a Capote quote about Kerouac (which I will likely misquote from memory) "That's not writing that's typing

[daybreak777]

I tell you it's the revising that turns it into a real story. Like you can bake a cake and basically it's like cornbread. Good, but no masterpiece. Most could eat it plain and it'd be fine. But frosting and finishing that cake, putting the piping or sifting powdered sugar or pressing slivered almonds into ganache makes it a cake what people want when they want a cake. Like accessories make an outfit. The shoes, the hair, the makeup.

It's good to get that 50k. But you ain't done yet!

[kdbleu]

exactly.