I’m not sure if I agree with all of the NaNoWriMo posts on this blog but this nugget of advice is interesting.
“By now you've probably read enough fantasy novels to be far too familiar with the genre conventions to which so many such tales slavishly adhere. Now: forget them. They're like grammatical conventions. You learn them to be competent, forget them to be good, and come to them afresh to confront greatness. And maybe NaNoWriMo isn't about any of those things, but it could be. If you want to write a Decent Book as well as a Passable Imitation of the Other Fantasists, you've got to remember that the conventions of fantasy come after the conventions of serious storytelling.“
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Advice to NaNoWriMo fantasy writers: Read less fantasy.
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