I mean, sure, not everyone can afford an editor, but that's never been the point of NaNoWriMo! The point of the challenge was to write a first draft and use the

I mean, sure, not everyone can afford an editor, but that's never been the point of NaNoWriMo! The point of the challenge was to write a first draft and use the time limit to constantly push yourself forward. It was to demonstrate that a finished story that can be improved on can be more important to a writer's career than an exquisitely crafted idea that never gets onto the page. Editors are things that always came after NaNoWriMo.