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Message: <blockquote data-quote="takyris" data-source="post: 3155764" data-attributes="member: 5171">If I can offer completely unasked-for advice, I think that's an excellent way of doing it.NaNoWriMo is a great way to start a novel. NaNoWriMo is a great way to complete an already-started novel. NaNoWriMo is a decent way to hack out a complete first draft if and only if you are so good at rewriting that you don't mind using that first draft as nothing more than a skeletal framework for your full novel, or if you can actually crank out 3000 words per day rather than 1700.But if you write to 50k, you're writing a novella, and novellas do not traditionally sell. If you're writing for yourself as an exercise, and don't plan to send it out, cool beans. But I see a lot of enthusiastic people who end up with bad novellas and don't have the skill to rewrite them into good novels (which is not a slam on them -- it's a learned skill), and that's a bummer, especially given what NaNoWriMo ostensibly stands for -- motivating people to write.So use it as a writing butt-kick. I think that's a great plan. Good luck!</blockquote>