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Five reasons to write a novel this month:
  1. Caffeine and cigarettes can then be deducted as business expenses.

  2. What else will put you in the company of both Saddam Hussein and Steve Martin?

  3. You’re the next J. K. Rowling—you can just feel it.

  4. Heather might pick you.

  5. It’s National Novel Writing Month, a now-international event that’s clinging to its original name for the sake of its funky abbreviation, NaNoWriMo. Of the 59,000 people who tried their hands at authorship last November, 9,769 churned out the 50,000 or more words required to earn the title “novelist.” According to organizers, laughably awful prose and “quantity not quality” are not only excused but encouraged.
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