As someone who did NaNoWriMo for the first time last year, I’m oddly attached to it.

If you haven’t had the pleasure of being introduced to NaNoWriMo, let me tell you a little about it. It stands for National Novel Writing Month and it happens every November. Each year, thousands of people flock to nanowrimo.org and pledge to write at least 50,000 words between 12:01 a.m. on November 1 and 11:59 p.m. on November 30. (Yes, the minutes matter, as evidenced by entire discussion threads devoted t...