Pirates.

Nearing the end of the second week of National Novel Writing Month, my story slowed to a crawl and I struggled to keep the required word count momentum. Then came a motivational email from Chris Baty, the founder of NaNoWriMo. I no longer have the email, but it said, in essence, that if you were stuck, put a pirate in your story and keep going. That's what I did.

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