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Originally Posted by anniekatt
So the contest consists of having to write 50,000 words and winner gets $50K?
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Nooooo, anyone who manages to write 50,000+ words during the month is a "winner" (and quite right, too) and gets a digital certificate to prove it, too. You submit what you wrote at the end of the month and they do a word-count (without reading the content). NaNoWriMo is all about quantity, nothing about judgment/quality. Which does serve a very valuable purpose in that it encourages people to appreciate that you can't be a writer without
getting words down on paper (or saved in software, anyway, these days), and the emphasis is very much on "producing your word-count for the day", with the philosophy that you can always edit later.
There's a forum there, too, which is a great distraction, of course, and some of it makes really interesting reading!
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Originally Posted by anniekatt
I spent last night researching agents for a novel that I need to submit
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Oooh, good luck!!! Remember two things (both rather counterintuitive but drilled into me by some successful writer friends):-
(i) Finding an agent is more important (and sometimes harder) than finding a publisher
(ii) The cover letter matters just as much as the text of the novel
I have still not yet completed the novel I began in November 2007. I have two thirds of it written in something like "second draft" and the remainder sketched out, though.
