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NaNoWriMo and Other Processes: Do Agents and Editors Care?

NaNoWriMo and Other Processes: Do Agents and Editors Care?

Does a book's history risk being a turn-off?

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Nov 01, 2019
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Today’s question: Does talking about how stories took a long time (several years) to write, started as NaNoWriMo projects, or been actively discussed on Twitter turn off to agents and editors? In other words, does the history of the work matter?

What an interesting question. Short answer: Nope, it doesn’t matter. Go forth and tweet!

Longer answer:

Somethin…

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