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NaNoWriMo 2017



This is my first year doing NaNoWriMo, and it's been quite the adventure for these past two days. I really want to get somewhere substantial on the Eminence, so I joined.

I gave myself a goal of 30,000 words. I'm in my school's musical and have three-to-five-hour rehearsals every day until opening on the ninth, and I'm in three AP classes and two honors classes. I'm editor of my school's literary magazine, and submissions open this month, so that's going to be hectic. Obviously, I'm hoping to surpass my goal, but this is a good start.

So let's see what happens this month.

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