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I did not win this year. I heard about nano from my writing teacher last year but had not had time. This year I remembered, found the site, and signed up by accident but decided to do it any way–– on November 8th late at night. I did not even manage to write more than 500 words until the 12th, and all that set me up to fail.
What made me fail was a series of essays I had to do for school that counted for far too much of my grade. I ended up switching between writing an essay and working on my story which did not work well.

All that being said, I finished the month off 6,000 words short. I got that far mostly from the pep talks. If not for the emailed pep talks, I may well have never made it past 35K, or even 15K for that matter. They really made me feel like part of something bigger, and gave me something to enjoy about all of this.
I did not get to go to any write ins. No, not even one. I had to do every word of my writing sitting in my room between homework from lack of a ride any where and living to far away to walk. So the pep talks and the forums where all that really kept me going, since I had no writing buddy.

So thank you for the great month, for the pep talks, and the boards. I really enjoyed this November, and you will be seeing me there next year.