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Ink, Sweat, and Tears: A Writer’s Tale of NaNoWriMo

a personal journey with National Novel Writing Month

Wendy Van Camp
4 min readNov 7, 2023

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Image by Alexandra Haynak from Pixabay

Embarking on the journey of creating a novel is like setting sail on an uncharted sea, armed with nothing but a pen, paper, and one’s imagination. Well over thirteen years ago, I attempted Nanowrimo for the first time with nothing more than an idea and a…

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Wendy Van Camp

I love to read books, sketch, and drink coffee. I'm an author and a Anaheim Poet Laureate Emerita. #speculativepoetry #sciencefiction #memoir #poetry #scifaiku