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It's finally happened.

NaNoWriMo is over.

Hopefully, at least some of you completed your stories. However, if you're like me, by this point you're thinking...

Why in the world is NaNoWriMo in one of the busiest months of the year?!

Don't worry, you're not alone in feeling that way. A lot of us wonder this every year. Yet we still take part in NaNoWriMo, because there's something special about it. I'm not even sure what that is.

But truth be told, it doesn't have to be NaNoWriMo for it to be NoWriMo.

Your novel could be written in any month. Maybe it would even be better if you wrote it during a month when you're not so busy.

In fact, I'd highly recommend that you don't take part in NaNoWriMo, and only take part in your own NoWriMo. As long as the words get on the page, as long as you do the writing that is begging to be done, you've succeeded.

Honestly...

NaNoWriMo isn't the only way to get a book written. 

It's a tool. It's a way for you to get started, something to help you learn how to get going.

But it's not the only thing to writing.

It can't be the only time of year when you write. If that's what your life has come to, then I suggest that you give up writing altogether.

The point is to write, to write often, and to finish what you start.

If you can do that, you can do anything. Take my word for it if you're not so sure. Or try it out, and find out how right I am.

[love and twenty-four days until Christmas!]

{Rani D.}