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NaNoWriMo

  • NaNoWriMo Celebrates 20 Years & Countless Words

    NaNoWriMo Celebrates 20 Years & Countless Word

    National Novel Writing Month, or NaNoWriMo for short, is an international event for which over 300,000 writers attempt to write 50,000 words of a new novel in the month of November. The goal is to turn off the internal editor, which often slows writers down to a crawl, and get words on the page. As…

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    How to NaNoWriMo

    Have you ever looked at a book on our shelves and thought “I could write that?” Have you ever started writing and given up after a few pages? Congratulations, you’re like most writers! Writing a book is hard, but possible, as proven by the countless books published daily. But how do you get from page one…

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