It's not that the thought hasn't occurred to me, to use NaNo to finish a WIP. However, once you experience the crazy pace of NaNo it becomes very clear that if you want your story to have a first draft that is actually *good* and not an incredible amount of work to edit, you best not be writing it during NaNo!
Instead I like to use NaNo for side projects that I don't work on the rest of the year, because I'm too busy writing other things, like my LJ WIPs.
To attempt to write Spliced during NaNo, for example, I would find laughable. I just feel the complexity of it would be too much, and I like to take Spliced at a more sedate pace (what can I say, the boys are argumentative and fickle). There are at least a few chapters on here that I've rewritten a few times before posting. Nano wouldn't allow me to do that.
I hope that explanation sheds some light. I can only speak for myself of course, not other authors.
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Instead I like to use NaNo for side projects that I don't work on the rest of the year, because I'm too busy writing other things, like my LJ WIPs.
To attempt to write Spliced during NaNo, for example, I would find laughable. I just feel the complexity of it would be too much, and I like to take Spliced at a more sedate pace (what can I say, the boys are argumentative and fickle). There are at least a few chapters on here that I've rewritten a few times before posting. Nano wouldn't allow me to do that.
I hope that explanation sheds some light. I can only speak for myself of course, not other authors.