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Comment author: Kaj_Sotala 02 December 2010 10:25:42PM 6 points [-]

Participate in National Novel Writing Month. The idea is to write a 50,000 word work of fiction in 30 days, without fretting over quality too much. If you do this, you will learn a lot. It's unavoidable.

I've done Nanowrimo on several occasions, beaten the goal twice. One can learn a lot that way, but for the most part I've only learnt "if I have to churn out 1,700 words a day, I write crap".

Comment author: ronnoch 04 December 2010 07:52:23AM 3 points [-]

I suspect the major benefit of finishing NaNoWriMo is realizing that writing a novel is actually possible, for you. That it's not some impossibly huge and daunting project that you could never really pull off--you can do it in a month, even.