What NanoWriMo Means to Me

Desdemona Wren
Nov 2 · 5 min read

When I first started doing NaNoWriMo I could barely get past the first few days without giving up.

I remember talking about NaNo on my old LiveJournal for the first time in 2005 and how I struggled with the grueling task of writing roughly 2,000 words a day.

That year I didn’t make it past day two.

Source: Andrew Neel

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Desdemona Wren

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Desdemona Wren is an artist, writer, and blogger and she writes queer stories about what it’s like to grow up in the rural south.

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