Welcome to Back Up Your Novel Day!
To take part in the celebrations, just email your fresh novel to your webmail account, slap it on a flash drive, upload it to your favorite back-up service, or bury your whole computer in an airtight, waterproof capsule at a local park. Anything to make sure those words are safe!
This year, hundreds of NaNoWriMo participants will lose their novels to software crashes, coffeeshop spills, and unexpected hard-drive deaths. It happened to me right before NaNoWriMo began this year, and I've been a wrecked shell of an individual ever since. Learn from my stupidity! Back up that book today!
And there's another, more exciting holiday coming up on the NaNoWriMo calendar as well! Sunday, November 8 is Municipal Liaison Appreciation Day. This is the day we all reach out to our hardworking volunteer MLs with buckets of thanks and stacks of fresh-baked pies to thank them for everything they do to keep us motivated every year. If you've appreciated your ML's efforts, please send them a NaNoMail or email, or post in your Regional Lounge this Sunday and let them know!
Off to preserve my 5,891 mediocre words for posterity,
Chris
