Dec 22, 2021

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Winning NaNo 2021

NaNoWriMo has been my annual obsession for sixteen years, over half the years I’ve been alive.

My first attempt at hitting 50,000 words of a fiction project in the month of November was November 2005. I had turned twelve years old less than a month before. By that point, I had been writing stories for six years, filling up spiral…

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