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Oh snap. You serious?
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Heck yeah. I do this every year (since 2004). In fact, the 2004 novel placed as a runnerup (top 4) in a national contest in 2006.

I LOVE NaNoWriMo. Am sitting here plotting out this year's fiasco right now.



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In fact, the 2004 novel placed as a runnerup (top 4) in a national contest in 2006.
Christ that's impressive. A winner is you! I know a girl who does it every year too, but her stuff is mostly just random and hilarious because of it. I can't even imagine doing something of quality in so short a time.



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Well, to be fair, I wrote the first 50K words in November of that year and then wrote the final 25K and did the copy editing later in the next year. I never finish a piece during NaNo, because a novel's more than 50K words, but I always get enough momentum to finish it later.

I might do some of my typing this year on a gargantuan IBM Selectric typewriter I just got from eBay last week!



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Now that final part's just crazy.

You crazy.

I guess it's pretty easy to scan it in digitally and stuff though, right?



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Yeah, it gets good paper coverage and will OCR scan really well. I won't use it every day, and certainly not when I'm out at a library or coffee shop (ha ha ha, this thing weighs a ton), but there's something strangely productive about seeing the paper MOVE and hearing the machine hum and click and clack...

But I digress.... I use NaNo calendar desktops all month to remind me constantly what word count I should hit on any given day....



This is what I have up lately:

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i love post secret.. i check it every sunday to see the new week's secrets. here lately, i could have wrote many on there.



Looks like I better get the electronic cleaning lady in.


More importantly, you officially have the most boring and unoriginal wallpaper ever. Stock Gone Fishing wallpaper ZZzzzzz.
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Here's my work desktop. I like my screen resolution to be the max possible, if you couldn't tell.

For obvious reasons, I had to hide my icons.
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