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1. Trying to find time to write between work and class
2. Which basically means no social interaction for a solid month.
3. Making a new best friend
4. Starting a new chapter
5. Cleaning your room for ~maximum creative space~
6. Might as well do the dishes while you’re at it
7. Doing pretty much anything you can to avoid writing
8. Finally sitting down and pumping out two chapters
9. Realizing it’s now 4 AM and you have to be awake in three hours
10. Pulling your first NaNoWriMo all-nighter
11. Discovering you're more creative when you’re sleep-deprived
12. Wondering if it’s possible to overdose on coffee
13. Trying to tame your inner perfectionist
14. Realizing that the outline you made in October is now totally useless
15. Alternatively, deciding that it might have been helpful if you’d started out with a plan
16. Getting so caught up in the story that it starts invading in your dreams
17. Running out of steam halfway through the month
18. Trying to beat your writer’s block by following Hemingway’s advice
19. Completely forgetting that Thanksgiving is looming ahead
20. Looking to the forums for advice and ending up way more self-conscious than you were before
21. Finally surrendering to the call of the wild
22. Reaching 50,000 words only to realize that your first draft is actually a steaming piece of crap
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