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Originally Posted by
Sailor Kenshin
Well, I failed. No finished draft but close.
Still gonna continue writing this anyway.
No. You did not fail.
There is no failure in NaNo.
Since the whole point is to get you to write and stretch and do something maybe you would not have done otherwise, if you wrote one word more than you would have, you have succeeded.
NaNo is the only thing I have ever done where the terminology is not "Win or lose" but "Win or not finish."
My novel(s) are far from done, but I am soooo happy with my work this year because I wrote in two genres, one of which I have never tried before, and because for the first time, after 17 years of doing this every year, I am at a point where I can see possibly getting one or both of these things to a point where I could submit them.
If we allow "failing" in NaNo, then we are going to have to allow crying in baseball, and where's that gonna take us?