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NaNoWriMo 2017 IS HERE!!! If you know me, or have followed this blog over the last few years, then you likely know that National Novel Writing Month , or, Nanowrimo, is one of my most favorite things. For those of you who don't know, Nano is a virtual community of something like 500,000 people that commits to writing an entire novel, or at least 50,000 words of one, in the 30 days of November. You can learn more about it at nanowrimo.org. This will be my fifth year participating in Nano-- which kind of shocks me! Four years ago today I began my first attempt at writing a novel. I only finished 20,000 words that year, but that experience helped me develop a regular writing practice; it inspired me to find a writer's group; and it was the beginning of (finally) following my dream of being a writer. (That's a pretty big deal.) In all three years since my first try, I have  made it to the 50,000 word finish line. And since that first day, I have written four novels. ...