NaNoWriMo - Crash Course for Writing a Novel in 30 Days
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NaNoWriMo - This November, Write Your Novel
NaNoWriMo is short for "National Novel Writing Month" (the "National" in the title has been rendered obsolete; NaNoWriMo is now a worldwide phenomenon). Every November tens of thousands of people from around the world aim to produce a 50,000 word novel in just 30 days.
It's the perfect opportunity for would-be writers to nurture their creative selves. Having a firm, short deadline puts the goal of writing a novel solidly within reach.
Chris Baty, instigator of NaNoWriMo, explains that the key is to lower your expectations "from 'best-seller' to 'would not make someone vomit' ".
Some of the things you'll need to keep in mind while writing your novel are the following:
- Genre
- Setting
- Characters
- Conflict
- Theme
- Plot
- Scenes
- Climax
- Point of View
This lens will help you get started on your NaNoWriMo adventure (by the way, registration is free).
Links to Help You Create Character Profiles
- How to Create a Character Profile
- In interviews many famous authors have stated that they came up with the basics of a character's personality and then they found that the character just "came alive" for them and ended up driving the story all on his own. But for the beginning writer, sometimes a more concrete approach is helpful.
- Character Creation Form
- I have devised a way to have all of this in one easy place, a list of questions to answer about any character for any setting so that I can have a complete history, personality, and everything else all at my finger tips. How often have you started on the third chapter, or even the third page, and had to go back to the beginning and remind yourself that "gee, her hair was blond, not red."
- Developing Fictional Character Profiles
- Biographical and background detail of fictional characters will help create a clearer picture of the sort of people they might be, where they are going in life and how they will drive the plot.
- 100 Character Development Questions for Writers
- Here are 100 questions you can "ask" your characters.
- Character Development Chart
- Use this worksheet to assist you in the development of your fiction characters.
November is National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo). Register, for free, here.
NaNoWriMo Tip #3
Create a profile for each of your characters similar to those of popular socializing networks such as Myspace, Twitter, or Facebook.
Use Archetypes as Blueprints for Your Characters
Victoria Schmidt argues in her book "45 Master Characters" that archetypes are blueprints for building well-defined characters, be they heroes, villains, or supporting characters. As Schmidt explains: "Each archetype has her own set of motivations, fears and cares that move her as well as the plot forward." Archetypes are the foundation your characters will stand on.
The greek gods and godesses represent the basic archetypes:
Creating Female Heroes and Villains:
Aphrodite - The Seductive Muse and The Femme Fatale
Artemis - The Amazon and The Gorgon
Athena - The Father's Daughter and the Backstabber
Demeter - The Nurturer and The Overcontrolling Mother
Hera - The Matriarch and the Scorned Woman
Hestia - The Mystic and the Betrayer
Isis - The Female Messiah and the Destroyer
Persephone - The Maiden and the Troubled Teen
Creating Male Heroes and Villains:
Apollo - The Businessman and the Traitor
Ares - The Protector and the Gladiator
Hades - The Recluse and the Warlock
Hermes - The Fool and the Derelict
Dionysus - The Woman's Man and the Seducer
Osiris - The Male Messiah and the Punisher
Poseidon - The Artist and the Abuser
Zeus - The King and the Dictator
Beware that stereotypes aren't the same thing as archetypes. Stereotypes are oversimplified generalizations which will limit your character.
The greek gods and godesses represent the basic archetypes:
Creating Female Heroes and Villains:
Aphrodite - The Seductive Muse and The Femme Fatale
Artemis - The Amazon and The Gorgon
Athena - The Father's Daughter and the Backstabber
Demeter - The Nurturer and The Overcontrolling Mother
Hera - The Matriarch and the Scorned Woman
Hestia - The Mystic and the Betrayer
Isis - The Female Messiah and the Destroyer
Persephone - The Maiden and the Troubled Teen
Creating Male Heroes and Villains:
Apollo - The Businessman and the Traitor
Ares - The Protector and the Gladiator
Hades - The Recluse and the Warlock
Hermes - The Fool and the Derelict
Dionysus - The Woman's Man and the Seducer
Osiris - The Male Messiah and the Punisher
Poseidon - The Artist and the Abuser
Zeus - The King and the Dictator
Beware that stereotypes aren't the same thing as archetypes. Stereotypes are oversimplified generalizations which will limit your character.
The NaNoWrimo Rules
- Write a 50,000-word (or longer!) novel, between November 1 and November 30.
- Start from scratch. None of your own previously written prose can be included in your NaNoWriMo draft (though outlines, character sketches, and research are all fine, as are citations from other people's works).
- Write a novel. We define a novel as a lengthy work of fiction. If you consider the book you're writing a novel, we consider it a novel too!
- Be the sole author of your novel. Apart from those citations mentioned two bullet-points up.
- Write more than one word repeated 50,000 times.
- Upload your novel for word-count validation to our site between November 25 and November 30.
Character Profiles
Important!
50,000 words in 30 days is 1,667 words a day. That's probably 1 - 2 hours work.
NaNoWrimo Tip #4
Write what a typical day looks like for your character. In addition, create your character's backstory; even if you never include a word of the backstory in your novel, if you know your character's past you'll be able to make him or her more convincing to the reader.
Important!
Summary of the Major Elements of a Novel
- Setting is the "where" and 'when" of the story or novel.
- Characters are the "who."
- Conflict is the "what." (What is the problem?)
- Plot is the "how." (How is the conflict developed and resolved?)
- Theme is the "why." (The author's message and one of the reasons why the author wrote the story or novel.)
“The plot is the story. It's what happens in the novel and why it's interesting.”
Plot
The Classic Three Act Structure
Act 1: We meet the characters and discover what the main problem of the story is. This is the preparation act for the reader (set it up).
Act 2: Here we have the complication. The problem that we set up in the 1st act becomes more dangerous & difficult. The hero's attempts to solve the problem come crashing down and our hero is lying on his back with no apparent means of escape.
Act 3: The resolution of the problem. Tie up loose ends.
The best advice in choosing a genre is to write the type of novel that you like to read.
Example: The Choking Doberman
- Martha walked up the flight of stairs to her second floor apartment and wearily opened the door. As soon as she made her way into the apartment she was greeted by the sight of her pet Doberman pinscher choking and unable to breathe.
Filled with fear and anxiety, Martha rushed him to the vet and was told to leave him there for emergency surgery. Feeling a bit calmer now that her beloved pet was being looked after, she returned to her apartment.
No sooner had Martha set her purse down on the small table near the door when the phone rang. She picked it up and was surprised to hear the vet's voice urging her to get out of her apartment right away. Martha quickly grabbed for her purse, ran out of her apartment, and knocked urgently on her neighbor's door. Fortunately, Marge was home and she let Martha in. Martha told Marge of how she had come home to find her dog choking and of the bizarre phone call she had received from the vet.
A few minutes later the two women heard the sound of sirens nearing the apartment building. Four police cars screeched to a stop ouside the building and several cops made their way up the stairs and into Martha's apartment.
After waiting what she considered to be a prudent amount of time, Martha ventured out of her neighbor's apartment to see what was happening. She was told by one of the cops that after a quick search of her apartment they discovered a burglar hiding in the bedroom closet bleeding profusely from one hand.
Analysis of "The Choking Doberman"
As Ronald Tobias explains in "20 Master Plots", "The Choking Doberman" is completely plot driven; the characters take a backseat. In addition, it has three movements: the story is set up when the woman comes home and finds her pet Doberman choking. She takes the dog to the vet.
The second movement starts when the woman gets home and her phone starts ringing. A startling complication is introduced when the agitated vet urges her to get out of the house. The woman flees the house and the unknown danger.
The third movement begins with the arrival of the police, with the climax ocurring when they tell her that they found a burglar hiding in her bedroom closet who had been bitten by the Doberman. By the end of the story the mystery is solved.
photo credit: tinali778 Genre Types
Genre is a term used to group together works that share similar characters, settings, and themes.The basic genres are the following:
- Action - Adventure
- Drama
- Mystery
- Fantasy
- Horror
- Literary
- Romance
- Science-Fiction
- Western
- Satire
No Plot? No Problem!
No Plot? No Problem!: A Low-Stress, High-Velocity Guide to Writing a Novel in 30 Days
Amazon Price: $5.00 (as of 02/16/2012)
This book was written by the founder of NaNoWriMo, Chris Baty - it's a great guide to writing a book in a month
Blockbuster Plot
Genre: Dystopian Novels
NaNoWriMo Tip #1
Don't worry about the quality of your writing, just focus on getting to that 50,000 word target.
Ideas to Save Your Plot
- Kill a main character.
- Hit shuffle on your iPod and the first song that comes up is the title of your next chapter.
- Your main character finds an old letter in a library book.
- Include an element of betrayal: someone is having an affair or has lied about their past.
- Flip through magazines or art books. Look through the newspaper.
- Go people watching: sit at an outdoor café; go to the mall; ride the subway or the bus.
- Write a list of words that are common to your genre and combine them in interesting ways to come up with titles for your chapters (dragon, castle, moat, knight). Once you have a title, create a plot twist based on that title.
- Think of your family's stories which you've heard your relatives retelling over and over again.
- Thinking of an important, far-off goal your character is striving to reach and write about your character's quest to achieve this objective.
- Your character loses someone or something that is very dear to them.
- Your character's business is in trouble. Brainstorm ten possible ways to solve the problem. Choose the most unexpected approach to write about.
- Steal from the best. Think of a novel you love, take elements from the plot, and make them your own.
- Use social media for ideas (delicious, Stumbleupon, Twitter). Here's something I found while stumbling: Armed Thieves Steal Magritte Painting in Daylight Raid.
- Visit One Sentence or PostSecret.
Help for Finding Ideas for Your Novel
How to Be More Creative - A Handbook for Alchemists
"How to Be More Creative - A Handbook for Alchemists" explains that creativity is not the sole domain of the arts but is important in any field, from medicine to business, and from engineering to developing a creative solution to a negotiation impasse. Whatever you do, creativity helps you do it better. Discover practical advice on how to be more creative in every life endeavor by reading my ebook.The ebook has 130 pages and 20 chapters and is chock full of value.
The purpose of this ebook is not just to give you information, but to transform you into a more creative and innovative person.
Print it out and place it in a ring-binder; you'll be creating a work file and adding lots of things to your binder, including creativity techniques, journal pages, quotes, photographs, ideas, and so on. At the end of almost every chapter in this ebook you'll find instructions on what to do with your work file.
Here's a .PDF file that contains the ebook's table of contents and the introduction:
"Table of Contents and Introduction"
Theme
The theme is the central message of the novel which is conveyed through the characters and circumstances; it's the statement you want to make about the human condition. In addition, it's the unifying element for everything you put in your plot.
Here are two examples:
- The theme of Shakespeare's "Othello", is jealousy.
- A main theme of the novel "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" by Mark Twain is racism.
Setting - When and Where
Setting is the background in which the story takes place. Basically, it's the when and where, but it can also include lifestyle:(a) Place: This is the geographical location of the story. Throughout the novel, the story may move from one place to another. Make a map that shows where all the action will take place. This will help you gauge distances and figure the length of time necessary to move your characters from one place to another.
(b) Time: First, this refers to the period of history. Your story could be set in the past, it could be a contemporary novel, or it could even be set in the future. When describing the setting you may want to specify the season, month, and even the time of day. Make a timeline for the events of the novel. This will give your plot anchor points.
(c) Lifestyle: This refers to the daily life of the characters. If a story takes place in a particular historical period, the lifestyle of the characters--poor farmers or part of the aristocracy--is part of the setting.
"Wuthering Heights"--Emily Bronte's only novel--takes place in the late 1700's and early 1800's. All the action is set in or around two neighboring houses on the harsh and desolate Yorkshire Moors of Northern England: Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange. These two manor houses are just four miles apart, but they could not be more different in terms of the conditions that exist in each house and the people who inhabit them. Emily Bronte grew up in the Yorkshire Moors, and so her depiction of it is very accurate.
More Books for Getting Ideas
Get a Coffee Mug Specially for NaNoWriMo
You'll be needing a lot of caffeine. :-)
“Conflict is the source of all growth and is an absolute necessity if one is to be alive. Jean Miller”
NaNoWriMo Tip #2
Get into a routine and begin writing at the same time each day.
Conflict
Conflict is the struggle between opposing forces in the story. Conflict provides interest and suspense. There are various types of conflict, which can usually be categorized as one of the following:
- A character struggling against nature.
- A struggle between two or more characters (relational conflict): Here it's usually the protagonist and the antagonist competing or clashing with each other.
- A struggle between the main character and some aspect of society (social conflict): This is a human v. group conflict; the protagonist has a problem with a group of people.
- A struggle of opposing forces within one character (inner conflict).
Scenes: Miniature Stories
Jordan Rosenfeld writes the following in his book "Make a Scene: Crafting a Powerful Story One Scene at a Time":
- "Scenes are capsules in which compelling characters undertake significant actions in a vivid and memorable way that allows the events to feel as though they're happening in real time. When strung together, individual scenes add up to build plots and storylines."
Fabulous Creativity Resource
This is my ebook on creativity (click on the book for more information):
Blockbuster Scenes
“What does your main character want more than anything else in the world?”
Creating Character Profiles
Write a Biography for Each of Your Characters
How many main characters and supporting characters will you have in your story?
One technique that a lot of writers use is to create a character profile for their main characters. This helps in creating characters that are as real as possible, and in providing continuity throughout the story. How detailed you make your character profiles depends on what works best for you.
Careful consideration to things such as the character's relationship with their siblings and their secret phobias, will create an impression of a character that has more to them than simply what is revealed within the novel.
One technique that a lot of writers use is to create a character profile for their main characters. This helps in creating characters that are as real as possible, and in providing continuity throughout the story. How detailed you make your character profiles depends on what works best for you.
Careful consideration to things such as the character's relationship with their siblings and their secret phobias, will create an impression of a character that has more to them than simply what is revealed within the novel.
- Age
- Appearance
- Occupation
- Income
- Education
- Marital Status
- Recent Relationships
- Children/Siblings
- Likes and Dislikes
- Favorite Music
- Hobbies
- Strengths and Weaknesses
- Special Characteristics (movement, speech, laugh, and so on)
- Favorite Sayings
- Idiosyncrasies
- Birth date/Sign of the Zodiac
- Nickname
Free Online References fo Writers
- Dictionary
- Dictionary.com
- Thesaurus
- Thesaurus.com
- 49 Free Online Reference Tools for Freelance Writers
- Today, I've accumulate some terrific free resources for writers. Some are dictionaries, some encyclopedias and others are tools to bookmark to use as needed. I hope you find these links handy and helpful.
Important!
A rule of good storytelling is that the protagonist will confront the thing he fears the most and overcome it in order to win the thing he desires the most. (Source.)
NaNoWrimo Tip #5
Make sure that you write every day. You may tempted to skip a day and promise yourself that you'll write twice as much the next day, but every day in which you don't write makes it that much more likely that you won't cross the finish line on November 30th with 50,000 words down on paper.
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Must-Have Writing Books
Fun Resources for Writers
- Cliché Finder
- Have you been searching for just the right cliché to use?
- The Story Starter
- The Story Starter provides 373,067,200 creative ideas and writer prompts. Here's one:
- Name Finder
- Are you writing a novel and are having trouble coming up with a good name for your secondary characters, or even the heroine of your story? Here's a tool that will help.
- Quick Story Idea Generator
- Here's one idea: The theme of this story: satirical caper. The main characters: antisocial technician and manipulative novelist. The major event of the story: longing.
- 36 Dramatic Situations
- Georges Polti says that all stories boil down to just 36 dramatic situations and takeoffs of those situations.
- The Brainstormer
- From the site: I recently found an interesting book called The Story Structure Architect. It broke down every plot idea into about 50-something different categories. I used this and narrowed it down to 45 for my Brainstormer.
NaNoWriMo Tip #6
Don't edit as you go; if you just can't keep yourself from going and back and looking at what you wrote, do minimum editing.
Important!
"As a writer, you already know what it's like to hold the power of creation in your hands. With a few strokes of a pen, you can forge a universe or start a galaxy spinning in space. You can mold brave new worlds and planets, complete with mountains, plains, and seas. You can even establish nations and cities, and populate them with culture and history. Like a living god, you can determine the future of an alternate reality." -- Corrine Kenner
Writing Tips
- Daily Writing Tips
- Daily Writing Tips is a blog where you will find simple yet effective tips to improve your writing.
- Language is a Virus
- All sorts of help to cure writer's block.
- The Scriptorium
- Lots of tools and resources for writers.
- How to Write a Great Novel
- From writing in the bathroom (Junot Díaz) to dressing in character (Nicholson Baker), 11 top authors share their methods for getting the story on the page (from the Wall Street Journal).
- 54 Tips for Writers, From Writers
- Just how do you go about facing an empty page, coaxing your ideas into the world of form, and steering the end result toward shore? You can start by studying the tips and advice from writers presented in this blog post.
- 45 More Tips From Writers, For Writers
- One of the most popular posts on this blog is 54 Tips For Writers, From Writers, which I wrote in May of 2009. So I decided that it was time for a sequel. Here are 45 more tips for writers, from writers.
Point of View
Point of view is the perspective from which a story is told. Choose the point of view that will most effectively allow you to reveal your characters and tell your story. The points of view you can adopt are basically the following:
First Person
Everything in first person POV comes from one character's perspective. We can only know what that character knows, and our knowledge may be skewed by that character's biases. For example: "Twilight" is told from Bella Swann's perspective (yes, I read the "Twilight" series, it's one of my guilty pleasures):
Third Person
This is the most commonly used - in other words, third person pronouns such as "he" or "she". When you write in the third person you have a couple of choices: omniscient, where you can hear the thoughts and see the action from any character's perspective; objective, where only narration, dialogue and description is used to tell the story and we aren't allowed into any character's thoughts; and limited omniscient, where we see the story from one or a few character's viewpoints and can hear only their thoughts.
Second Person
The second person point of view is uncommon - the "you" form. Most stories we read are in the first or third person, so using the second person may confuse your readers. But if it suits your novel, then go for it.
First Person
Everything in first person POV comes from one character's perspective. We can only know what that character knows, and our knowledge may be skewed by that character's biases. For example: "Twilight" is told from Bella Swann's perspective (yes, I read the "Twilight" series, it's one of my guilty pleasures):
- "I'd never given much thought to dying-though I'd had reason enough in the last few months-but even if I had, I would not have imagined it like this.
I stared without breathing across the long room, into the dark eyes of the hunter, and he looked pleasantly back at me.
Surely it was a good way to die, in the place of someone else, someone I loved. Noble, even. That ought to count for something.
I knew that if I'd never gone to Forks, I wouldn't be facing death now. But, terrified as I was, I couldn't bring myself to regret the decision. When life offers you a dream so far beyond any of your expectations, it's not reasonable to grieve when it comes to an end.
The hunter smiled in a friendly way as he sauntered forward to kill me."
Third Person
This is the most commonly used - in other words, third person pronouns such as "he" or "she". When you write in the third person you have a couple of choices: omniscient, where you can hear the thoughts and see the action from any character's perspective; objective, where only narration, dialogue and description is used to tell the story and we aren't allowed into any character's thoughts; and limited omniscient, where we see the story from one or a few character's viewpoints and can hear only their thoughts.
Second Person
The second person point of view is uncommon - the "you" form. Most stories we read are in the first or third person, so using the second person may confuse your readers. But if it suits your novel, then go for it.
Point of View and Other Devices
- Point of View and Other Devices
- One of the most important decisions you will make in writing your story is choosing which point of view to use. The point of view is the "head" or "camera angle" from which the action will be filtered. Depending on which source you study, there are a variable number of points of view to choose from. However, I have selected the five I think are most often used.
Write Great Fiction Series
Nanowrimo Tip #7
Outline your novel so that you have a clear idea of how your plot and characters are going to develop before you start writing.
More Books to Help You Meet the Challenge
The Story Structure Architect
Story Structure Architect: A Writer's Guide to Building Dramatic Situations and Compelling Characters
Amazon Price: $3.97 (as of 02/16/2012)
The Marshall Plan for Novel Writing
"The Marshall Plan for Novel Writing" by Evan Marshall consists of a 16-step writing program which breaks down the novel writing process into small, manageable tasks. The book presents you with a scene by scene layout for your novel's plot structure. Marshall gets as detailed as stating the order in which the first 15 scenes need to occur, what characters need to appear in those scenes, and what--in general terms--needs to happen.
There's also an accompanying workbook--The Marshall Plan Workbook: Writing Your Novel from Start to Finish--if you want the process broken down for you even further. It contains more than 100 pages of fill-in sheets that become a veritable blueprint for your novel. By following this program, even the most inexperienced writer can achieve the dream of completing a novel that is ready to submit to agents and editors.
Marshall even has a third book for getting your novel published!
There's also an accompanying workbook--The Marshall Plan Workbook: Writing Your Novel from Start to Finish--if you want the process broken down for you even further. It contains more than 100 pages of fill-in sheets that become a veritable blueprint for your novel. By following this program, even the most inexperienced writer can achieve the dream of completing a novel that is ready to submit to agents and editors.
Marshall even has a third book for getting your novel published!
Important!
Although some may think that a method for writing a novel such as the Marshall Plan is too logical and mechanical to allow for creative expression, it's just the opposite: having a clear process to follow helps to give shape to the characters, dialogue, and story lines that you have floating around in your head. It's like having a cup into which you can pour you're creativity so that you can serve it to others.
Making Time to Write
One of the main reasons people don't join NaNoWrimo is because they argue to themselves that they simply don't have the time. And yet countless published authors have also struggled with time limitations and have managed to carve out a few minutes here and a few minutes there until they've completed their novel.
Here are some things you can do to make the time to participate in NaNoWrimo:
Here are some things you can do to make the time to participate in NaNoWrimo:
- Write while you're riding the subway to work.
- Write in your car while your kid is in ballet lessons.
- Don't watch TV during the month of November and use that time to write (save your favorite TV shows and watch them in December).
- Write while you're on your lunch break.
- Get up half an hour earlier and write.
- Run as many errands as you can in October and use the time when you would be running errands in November to write.
- If you want to make sure that you make time to write, you can also take this drastic approach: "Never allow yourself to take a leak in the morning until you've written a page. That way, you're guaranteed a page a day, and at the end of a year you have a novel." --Charles Willeford
Important!
Making Time to Write
"I did my first novel 'The House of the Spirits' writing only at night after I worked all day for 12 hours; two different shifts at two different jobs. I wrote at night in a little kitchen. It was really hard. It's like falling in love, though; you make love behind closed doors if you have to."
-- Isabel Allende
-- Isabel Allende
Stein on Writing
Stein On Writing: A Master Editor of Some of the Most Successful Writers of Our Century Shares His Craft Techniques and Strategies
Amazon Price: $8.73 (as of 02/16/2012)
Follow Sol Stein's advice: "Write the sentence you want the world to remember you by."
Writing Advice from Meggin Cabot
Novelist Meggin Cabot answers the question: How do you write a novel?
Ideas come from everywhere: newspapers, magazines, and so on. You see something, it sparks an idea, and then you make up a story to go with it. The best way to write a novel, says Meggin, is to sit down and do it. That's what separates an amateur writer from a professional writer.
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NaNoWriMo Tips
- NaNoWriMo Veterans Share Their Secrets
- Does writing a novel in a month suddenly seem insane? Has your plot petered out or taken a weird turn? What kind of music should you listen to? How much should you plot ahead of time? In keeping with the generous spirit of the event, veteran wrimos share their favorite NaNoWriMo tips and secrets.
- NaNoWriMo Tips and Tricks, or SHUT IT AND WRITE.
- The first tip is to murder your internal editor.
- Getting NaNoWriMo Done: How to Write a Novel in 30 Days
- Article by Mike Vardy on how to write a novel in 30 days.
Consider Publishing Your Novel as An Ebook
Countdown to NaNoWriMo 2011
NaNoWriMo 2011: November 1, 2011
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- I never heard of nanowrimo and I'm very interested in writing for it. The trouble is that I use a public library computer so time is limiting. But who knows I might just be able to do it! I'm so glad you have a lens about it-I also write for squidoo.com and branching out to be a fiction writer.
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- My niece told me about nanowrimo a couple of years back. While I don't have the patience to write a novel, the tips provided by you are really useful. Thanx for sharing.
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- Purple star deserved. In fact, I will go back to this once in a while as this is a very easy to read guide. Haven't heard of nanowrimo before. Will start getting to know this.
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