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humanodon · 4069 days ago · link · · parent · post: NaNoWriMo - National Novel Writing Month challenges you to write 50,000 words during the 30 days of November.
As a generative exercise, these kinds of things are ok, but simply writing will not help one get better at craft unless some awareness of craft is already present. I do think that they are good tools for showing people a little bit of the sheer immensity of hard work that can go into creating publishable work. If nothing else, this is a good way to disillusion people from thinking that writing is as easy as sitting down to put words on the page.