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"I'm one of those published NaNo'ers -- trilogy with HarperCollins and memoir with Chronicle -- and I worship at the altar that is NaNo. My first NaNo was my first published novel, and I'll be working on the fourth in the series this November. The thing I love the most? That they get SO MANY PEOPLE WRITING. A lot of people I know are writers who will never write a novel. You know the type. They want to be writers so badly, but normally, they can't get the drive together on their own. NaNo is that push, that rush, that gets them to actually fucking write something already and quit whining about it. Sure, they may only complete 10k during the month, but that's 10k more than they've managed to put on paper in the last seven years, so that's worth throwing a party for. Some people (like me and you) can sit down and write even when (especially when) we don't want to. Others really need an artificial structure and support system, and there are a lot of them out there, but I think NaNo is one of the best. \r\n\r\nPutting the kool-aid down, and off to the cafe where I will finish the first polished draft of my fifth book TODAY WOOOOOT!\r\nRachael"
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