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aslan
Mar 27, 2012

Tambaloneus posted:

Yes the 50k refers to what you write during nov, if it's a continuation that is fine as far as I know. Plenty of people do sequels, continues and rewrites.

Traditionally you're supposed to start from scratch, but they've gotten pretty lenient about it over the last few years (by which I mean they went from "Technically the rules are that you start with a brand new story, but nobody's sitting here checking" to "We think it works better if you start from scratch, but we don't really care").

For the past few years I've used the energy/momentum of it to push me to work on my ongoing YA novel, and inevitably I decide that this is the year that I'm finally close enough to the end that I'm going to power through to the finish, get 10-40,000 words down before realizing that I'm not any closer to finishing than I thought I was at the beginning of the month, and quit. So I'll probably do that again. Next year though!

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