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Are you feeling the post-NaNoWriMo blues? Hannah Rubin, former intern and current writer and designer, shares her tips on how to keep your creative flame bright:

November is over. The thrill, the anticipation, the mad dash—the finish line has been reached. It can feel surreal to step into December and be forced to relinquish the beautiful purpose that has carried you through November, through moments of excited 2 a.m. scribbling, and hours of staring-at-a-blank-screen-while-the-cursor-blinks. It can feel so bizarre that, sometimes, it can feel like it didn’t actually happen.

But, resist the urge to click Save and never look back. Resist the desire to put it all behind you, to laugh about the craziness and no longer identify with it, to resume whatever life it was that you were living thirty days ago. You decided to put all normalcy aside for 50,000 words and write, and you did it for a reason. So keep on with it!

What you need is a plan for keeping the momentum alive. Here are a few key ways to keep the NaNo spirit alive:

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Yeah, I think that I’ve been in NaNoWriMo withdrawal. (probably doesn’t help that I’m still procrastinating on the revision project from the summer that I thought that I’d pick up in December).  Some good ideas here. – ssw15

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