My Nonprofit Reviews

I gave OLL five stars. When giving said stars I noticed that the explanation was 'Far exceeds expectations'. That can be very misleading so let me make this clear.
I participated in NaNoWriMo or National Novel Writing Month. My friend introduced me to it as a fun challenge. She'd done it before and said that it wasn't as crazy as it sounded. I had recently realized that there was more to writing than the stupid essays that they make you do in school and that writing could actually be a lot of fun so I decided to try it. I tried it and I loved it! It was far better than I had imagined. The forms, the pep talks, the uplifting interaction with other writers, it was all so wonderful and enjoyable that I knew when that November was over that I would defiantly be doing the same thing next November and every November after that if I had any say in it.
The pep talks were, by far, the best part for me and the forms come in as a close second. If it hadn't been for the pep talks and the fact that so many other people were going through this crazy journey with me (and the awesome certificate that you get for winning, I do like those) then I might (well, probably would) not have gotten to 50k either time but every morning I would get up and the very first thing I would do was to either check my email for a pep talk or check the NaNo site for anything different from yesterday. If I did the one first then I did the other second and what I found was always so uplifting that even if I didn't feel like writing a word when I got up, by the time I was done I was on fire and raring to go burn through a few thousand words and get an amazing story (my story!) banged out on my laptop.
The NaNo site has introduced me to so much and the people have been so helpful and encouraging that they make me wish that NaNo could last all year (even though I know I would get burnt out and probably go into a coma from lack of sleep and good nutrition if I tried to write 50K words every month). NaNo has given and continues to give me the encouragement that I need to be able to say 'I can be a writer. I can!' NaNo and the people who run it have become a very big part of my life and without them I might never have gotten such a kick start to my love of writing and I might still be floundering around in the 'I don't know what I want to do with my life, but I'm sure there's something' abyss. I'm very, very glad that I found them.

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