A Writer Against NaNoWriMo
Oct. 22nd, 2003 01:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
browngirlSo, Alma A. Hromic, a writer, has written an article condemning NaNoWriMo and its participants, which can be read here: http://www.swans.com/library/art8/aah032.html
I have to admit, I was a bit worried about reactions like this one, because I have friends who write for a living, friends who have written for years and years, and I worried about seeming to trivialize their vocation and livelihood. What do people think of her take on NaNoWriMo, not least you, my friends on LJ who are writers?
I have to admit, I was a bit worried about reactions like this one, because I have friends who write for a living, friends who have written for years and years, and I worried about seeming to trivialize their vocation and livelihood. What do people think of her take on NaNoWriMo, not least you, my friends on LJ who are writers?
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Date: 2003-10-22 08:32 pm (UTC)However, a lot of the language she quotes from the publicity for NaNoWriMo, especially the parts about mocking "real novelists" and excluding anyone who's too serious about their writing, rub me the wrong way too.
I see what you mean here. I think that part of it is context--they seem to me to be trying to echo the internal thoughts of the person who reads this and thinks, "but what if all I write is crap??" and part is, oh, I dunno, cutting down tall poppiees, maybe. I don't endorse that rhetoric, either.
But I don't think it's at the *core* of this activity. Writing50K words, enjoying the sweet torment (hand-staple-forehead), and being part of a community of folks who are doing this, that's the core, as I see it.