No, forcing yourself to keep to a writing schedule keeps you from falling into the "I don't feel like writing" or "I really need to edit what I've got" traps. I almost always hate my story from the halfway point to the three-quarter mark, NaNo or no. (There's a joke about the progression of "my wonderful story" to "my current story" to "my story" to "my @#%@#$@# story" to "my wonderful finished story" that's very true...)
My ten-page research report due next Friday is going not too badly. I've got the introduction almost finished and now I need to invent some conclusions and then make the data support it... oh, is that not what you're supposed to do?
That is probably what I will do. As soon as I select a topic. I am thinking 'why I should have gotten full credit on assignment 1'.
No really.... a paper on why the way I worked the analysis is the better way than the way he graded it. The only problem with that topic is the math to back it up will make the paper take more work than some other topic. To bad all the stuff at work is proprietary so I can't write about any of that.
Yep, that's about it. And most of the time, I give up at step 4. ;-) NaNo has been good for me in that it forces me to work past that point...or through it, in any case. I don't really have anything that's finished in the way I'd like it to be, but as I read somewhere the other day, what's "good" about a good first draft is that it's done! That's the most important part, and often very, very hard to achieve.