# I switched to NaNoGenMo because of similar commitment problems.

Pros:

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I switched to NaNoGenMo because of similar commitment problems.

Pros:

  * You will probably produce much more than one novel. (I usually produce one during the first half-hour of November 1st just to get it out of the way, and then work on more interesting / complicated projects afterward)
  * There’s a pretty active community, with deep and precise discussions of things like structure and themes, because computer generation of long-form narratives that remain interesting to humans over the course of 90+ pages is a hard problem.

Cons:

  * You need to know how to code
  * The novels you generate will be even less likely to be salable than the hurried work of an amateur human novelist
  * Explaining the concept to people who aren’t familiar with it is even harder than explaining NaNoWriMo, because a lot of people are somehow unaware that computers can write books

By [John Ohno](https://medium.com/@enkiv2) on [October 13,
2016](https://medium.com/p/207d817323da).

[Canonical link](https://medium.com/@enkiv2/i-switched-to-nanogenmo-because-
of-similar-commitment-problems-207d817323da)

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