Nonsense,
I was churning out Milk Woods while Dylan Thomas was on the nipple. Taught him everything he knows.

The idea is not to produce a perfect piece of prose on 30th November but to stop people from mouthing "I could so write a novel" or "I've started a novel" and actually giving them deadlines and getting them to the point where they say "I wrote a novel". The shiteness of said novel is irrelevant; it's the exercise that's important.

NB: I crafted the above sentences over an ice-age melting geological timescale, each careful word savoured and carved into granite with a silver-tipped chisel. And it's still shit.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Tue 4 Nov 2008, 9:52, Reply)