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Personal Narrative: Nanowrimo

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When I was thirteen, I finished National Novel Writing Month for the first time. High on caffeine and enthusiasm, I crossed the 50,000 word threshold on day twenty-three. Even though I’ve won NaNoWriMo every year since, that was still the proudest moment of my life, not because I wrote The Great American Novel (ha ha, not even close) but because I proved that it’s possible to sit down and accomplish something huge, even when you had no road map and no idea what you’re doing. Mind you, that doesn’t mean that it’s easy. On the contrary, NaNoWriMo might be one of the hardest things I’ve ever done. You’re writing a 200 page novel in a month. I don’t care if you’re Stephen King; if you think that’s easy, you’re crazy. But even when I’m lying on

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