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Write Your Damn Novel: A podcast about writing a book in a month

Why Do We Keep Doing This?

14 min • 1 december 2022

NaNoWriMo 2022 is now over! In this episode, best friends Liz and Kristina talk about why why they keep coming back to this challenge, year after year.

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