[criley2]

For the record, the point of NaNoWriMo is pure word count, and folks consider December to be "National Novel Editing Month" where you refine the word vomit.

Obviously this is not the only approach to writing, and some folks are incompatible with the concept of "just write with abandon" and "sort it all out and refine it in edit".

If you want to write and edit at the same time, consider halving your total word count (since they take two months to do that), or double your time (and continue through December).

[WorldMaker]

Related to the "word vomit" aspect of it, I've found a general rule of "wait at least 6 months" for the first edit pass to be helpful to me (rather than December my "National Novel Editing Month" is closer to June). From my experience I often am too critical trying to revise it immediately and having distance and forgetfulness helps a lot to better spot the jewels in project and polish them rather than dwell as much on the dreck and "word vomit" which you can simply rewrite or even delete. I was surprised when I mentioned it last night at a write-in how many hadn't considered forcing some distance between (very) rough draft and trying to make a proper first draft out of it.