I’m pleased to report that National Novel Writing Month for People Who Don’t Normally Care to Write is officially over. You can read what I have written about NaNoWriMo on Sexy Fandom in the past. My update for 2005 is that I came across fewer people participating in this junior high English class exercise this year. I don’t know if there were fewer people participating overall or if my friends just got more intelligent lovers. My only new insight is that it is interesting to see how interactions which would once have been IRL are now digital. A writing group provides similar creative pressure to something like NaNoWriMo, yet the selection sort on who would be in such a group in the physical world is so different. I feel like the NaNo organizers this year did a really good job making the project seem less smarmy and inaccurately self-satisfied. They are collecting donations to improve literacy in Laos. I think we could use better literacy in New Orleans, but Laos is not a bad charity either. Literacy is always a good thing. It is only self-delusion which is bad.
Now all I have to do is sit back and watch the lengthy yet poorly-written hate mail roll in.
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