Writing Is about the Right Words, not the MOST Words

Why are we more comfortable talking about output than art?

Look, I have nothing against NaNoWriMo. My attitude is always that whatever process works for a given writer (or given project) is great. No process is better than any other, and many people seem to genuinely be helped by a vomit-it-up-and-edit-later approach. But I’m starting to think that the general “NaNoWriMo culture” is giving people some weird ide…