NaNoWriMo Day #30 – Thinking of Myself as a Writer
By Brandon Marie Miller I’d never seen myself as a writer. I’d thought of myself as a reader, but not a writer. I was a nerdy…
NaNoWriMo Day #29 – I write because I need to
By Jasmine Gower My hometown was never big enough for a library. Well, it was never big enough for a public library. When my parents built…
NaNoWriMo Day #28 – How I became a storyteller
By Kate Watson I used to think that storytelling found me. One of my earliest memories is of my mom reading The Wonderful Wizard of Oz…
NaNoWriMo Day #27 – I write because I can’t imagine not writing
By Nicki Jacobsmeyer Why do I write? Besides a legitimate reason to explain the voices in my head? All joking aside, the characters and stories in…
NaNoWriMo Day #26 – Writing can be messy, but it helps make sense of the world around us
By Kat Vecchio I write about women’s lives. More specifically, women who lived outside the strictly drawn lines of decorum in the late nineteenth and early…
NaNoWriMo Day #25 – Writing helped me embrace my messiness
By Adrienne Proctor To me, writing has meant embracing my messiness. I’m not talking metaphorical mess. That would be a whole other post. No, I mean my…
NaNoWriMo Day #24 – I write because I love storytelling
By Christopher Thornton How one finds their way to the practice of any art or craft is often a bit of a mystery, but my path may…
NaNoWriMo Day #22 – A NaNoWriMo-versary to remember
By Rachel Smoka-Richardson I love October – colder weather, college football, and the exciting anticipation of NaNoWriMo. Although I’ve never “won” NaNo, I fully credit it…
NaNoWriMo Day #21 – If you want to be a writer, go write
By Daniel Wheatley For as long as I can remember, I’ve been interested in the written word (I accidentally found our family’s collection of Edgar Allan…
NaNoWriMo Day #19 – The Calling
By Keith Yatsuhashi The kids are back in school. The days are shortening, the air is crisping, and Halloween decorations cover neighborhood houses. You all know…
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