Yeah, I've seen people say that they refuse to do NaNo because you only end up with crap when "forced" to write 50k words in a month. I tell them that first, it's fine if you don't reach the 50k and second, it's not supposed to be finished, polished work. It's supposed to be a lot of stuff you can work with to polish and finish. I'm sure at the end of NaNo, we all have more completed, no matter the state, than those who don't do NaNo.

And, I've found in the sprints, my brain will panickly come up with ideas that I never thought of before, even after several attempts to dredge up ideas for a scene. In fact, I now try to sprint each scene 3 times because, with my poor memory, I generally can't remember much of what I wrote last time and I can get different things the next time. I take the best parts of all 3 attempts at a scene and mesh them together to make a much stronger scene. Plus, I will sometimes find things I love in a scene but that don't fit there and they either work themselves into another scene or they create a whole new scene I hadn't planned on before. AT least my TBI and poor memory are good for something!