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I found this little tidbit in a portfolio I once put together for my Creative Writing class. The prose surprised me, and it seems like something I should share. So enjoy. And try to figure out what’s fact and what’s fiction.
When I was young I wrote in the damp space beneath the kitchen sink, or […]

Okay, it sounds like the latest cell phone-email-laptop-fax-personal organizer-backscratcher combo from Apple Technologies, but I promise it’s nothing like that.
It’s actually the abbreviation for National Novel Writing Month, a world-wide event spanning the month of November. It’s also (and rather conveniently) the name of the group that organizes and publicizes the event. The NaNoWriMo […]