I know writing is your job, but jobs can also be fun. I'm sure most best-selling authors today didn't say "Well, there goes my plan to be a heart surgeon; I guess I'll have to dust off that novel." :) They had fun with their stories along the way and scrapped a lot of things.
I use NaNo to work on ideas I haven't puzzled out, because the time frame doesn't allow me to second-guess myself. Editing comes later. (In some cases never, if I don't like the story, but that has nothing to do with NaNo, per se.)
Maybe I've just seen the "I don't see the point in senselessly churning out words" argument too many times from NaNo detractors (& I know that's not what you're aiming at in this post), but I don't think any words a writer writes are ever useless. Even if the only thing you learn is "Wow, that was a crappy idea, and I'm never touching it again", you've learned something you didn't know before.
* = As always when I talk of writing in general, 'you' is meant in the general sense.
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I use NaNo to work on ideas I haven't puzzled out, because the time frame doesn't allow me to second-guess myself. Editing comes later. (In some cases never, if I don't like the story, but that has nothing to do with NaNo, per se.)
Maybe I've just seen the "I don't see the point in senselessly churning out words" argument too many times from NaNo detractors (& I know that's not what you're aiming at in this post), but I don't think any words a writer writes are ever useless. Even if the only thing you learn is "Wow, that was a crappy idea, and I'm never touching it again", you've learned something you didn't know before.
* = As always when I talk of writing in general, 'you' is meant in the general sense.