Ugh. Along with NaNoWriMo season comes the inevitable plethora of fearful its the death of literature as we know it and we are about to be buried under a tsunami of crap and no one will ever read good literature again because everyone is too busy writing their own inevitably-terrible book posts. Get a grip. People have been able to write for as long as pens and literacy have been reasonably widespread. Some of them wrote good things, many of them wrote awful things. The good things always find a way to the top, and the bad things will continue to languish in obscurity at the bottom of Amazons servers as well as they would have languished at the bottom of agent slush piles and author desk drawers in years past. No one read them then, and no one will read them now. The only difference is that now, good stuff that might have been missed by an agent or publisher before has a chance of finding its audience. The result is more good books, not fewer. NaNoWriMo provides writers with structure, a goal, a deadline, and a supportive community. And a lot of fun. If its not your style, then dont participate, but shut up about those of us who do. Nothing I write is the worse for having been first drafted in November.
Posted on: Sat, 18 Oct 2014 05:28:29 +0000
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