tl;dr: haters to the left
Dreck can be penned, submitted, accepted and published at any time of the year.
I am hardly a member of The Cult of Nice. My issue is that every piece of criticism I’ve read of NaNoWriMo over the years falls apart under even the most cursory examination.
…I won’t bother detailing that for two reasons:
- Other people far more eloquent than I have already done so. Ad nauseam.
- My entire point is that it is not worth acknowledging the detractors any more. (PROTIP: It hasn’t ever been worth it.)
Stop clicking on their articles. Stop responding to them. Stop caring.
They are, in many cases, getting paid to aggravate you. Even if they aren’t earning money right then and there—the more you fuss, the more visibility they get. And not only have they failed to make any ironclad arguments over the past decade, but their objections have become increasingly histrionic—bordering on the nonsensical. (There are more than enough novels out there and readers are an endangered species? Really?)
You have better things to do than perpetuate that kind of fallacious bullshit.
You could be writing.
