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\"\"<\/a>I am turning my sights to NaNoWriMo; it is fast approaching. It’s been sometime since I managed to participate in a monthly challenge. It feels both like I am out of practice and like going home. What will I write? Should I cheat and use the challenge to finish a story that is half done? Should I write a compilation of short stories?<\/p>\n

More importantly, what will you write? Find me on NaNoWriMo.org and be my writing buddy!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I am turning my sights to NaNoWriMo; it is fast approaching. It’s been sometime since I managed to participate in a monthly challenge. It feels both like I am out of practice and like going home. What will I write? Should I cheat and use the challenge to finish a story that is half done?… Continue reading NaNoWriMo 2018<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[8,55],"class_list":["post-8110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-nanowrimo","tag-writing-2"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6497,"url":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2015\/10\/09\/national-novel-writing-month\/","url_meta":{"origin":8110,"position":0},"title":"National Novel Writing Month","author":"leems","date":"October 9, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"\"November 1-30. 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