Does NaNoWriMo foster bad writing habits?

[sushimustwrite]

There's a discussion in the NaNoWriMo forums about a non-writer friend of a Wrimo who believes that NaNoWriMo fosters bad writing habits. Does it, though? The non-Wrimo friend believes that NaNo encourages writers to pad and worry about deadlines and word count instead of writing on one's own and page count. Let's take a look

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[anonymous]

...NaNoWriMo teach you to write to a deadline when quality doesn't count? Every deadline I've had meant turning in the disk to the editor to be prepped for the press run the next week. The fewer work I made for him the better for both of us. "Feeling free to write crap" has absolutely nothing to do with real writing situations.