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Rough Draft Challenge Day 1!

 I'm participating in Sarra Cannon's Rough Draft Challenge. For all the details, check out this video:  How to Join the Rough Draft Challenge I love this challenge because it's the exact opposite of the old NaNoWriMo. For those of you who might somehow stumble across this blog and wonder what the hell I'm talking about, NaNoWriMo was short for National Novel Writing Month, which was a challenge that started about 20-25 years ago, I think. Not sure about the exact history, but what I do know is the organization is now defunct thanks to some pretty bad controversies that happened last year and a couple years before. If you want to go down that rabbit hole, here:  The Tragic Downfall of NaNoWriMo  Otherwise just know that it was bad, and while the spirit of NaNo as a challenge was cool and all, there was a lot of pressure involved that I never liked, namely the pressure to write 50,000 words in a month. I don't do word counts. I suck at tracking. Therefore I always str...