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Last October I had never heard of NaNoWriMo, then while I was searching the Internet for an unrelated topic, I came across a word that made absolutely not sense "MANOWRIMO". I was intrigued so I followed the link and discovered "National Write A Novel Month". I had, had some ideas about writing a novel, which went absolutely nowhere. I felt compelled to take the challenge an actually write a a real novel. I had just gotten into the habit of writing some poetry and I felt that I was getting better at it, mostly in my own mind, but i did have an admirer who thought that my writing was good. So practically every spare minute, mostly weekends, I in the Month of November I spent my spare time writing. I attended a few write ins, and actually completed my story a few days before the end of the month.

I now have a novel, that I wrote myself, I am not sure what I will do with it. I am looking for criticism among my friends, but we are all very busy and don't have a lot of time. NaNoWriMo has online workshops to help with polishing your stream of consciousness novel, but I find it awkward to ask strangers to read and comment on a novel, It's a lot of work to ask of someone. I guess that what I am looking for is a list of participating schools and organizations that are sources of follow up in assisting to edit and refine a novel or to be honest and say it's a total waste of time and to stick with my day job.

I probably wouldn’t listen, but then I’ll know I was writing for myself. and not a greater audience. Still I enjoyed the NaNoWriMo experience, and hope they are around for many years to push me to places I have never been before.

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