BCL Chat: Are You Doing NaNoWriMo?

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BCL Chat: Are You Doing NaNoWriMo?

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Oct 7, 2017

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It’s time for your monthly BCL Chat. This month we asked you if you’d be attempting NaNoWriMo (that is, National Novel Writing Month). You all overwhelmingly replied “prolly not.”
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Oct 7, 2017

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BCL Chat: Are You Doing NaNoWriMo?

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