point. The argument I'm erroneously presumed to have made is apparently so sensationally sexy that this effort is probably doomed, but I'm a Jacket Copy fan, so if I'm going to give it another shot, this seems like the place. In my original piece, I do not admonish anybody not to do NaNoWriMo. In fact, I do not care or mind if anyone decides to do it. If people have fun doing this or otherwise find it satisfying, then great, go right ahead. Knock yourselves out. True, I do suggest that a novel written in 30 days is not likely to be very good, but the founders of NaNoWriMo say the same thing. I say that any NaNoWriMo novel will probably need a lot of revision before it is suitable for submission to an agent or editor, but NaNoWriMo boosters say that, too. I say that many of the manuscripts won't be readable even if they are revised, but this is also something a lot of NaNoWriMo contestants have acknowledged when they say that they accept the challenge purely as an exercise. (Can I point out, though, that you can't have it both ways? If the quality of the NaNoWriMo novels isn't the point and isn't important, why get so indignant when someone speculates that they are probably bad?) I do not say that I want people to stop writing novels. I say exactly the opposite. I do not disparage NaNoWriMo contestants, let alone "kick them in the teeth." I