Yesterday, Rebecca Wallace-Segall, a marvelous writing teacher as well as founder of youth writing program Writopia Lab (and therefore my boss) asked me to contribute to an email sent to teen writers who had just finished their National Novel Writing Month challenge. I had the experience of reading two NaNoWriMo novels written by a wonderful cousin of mine at either end of approximately the last decade, and I definitely had something to say. Little did I know I'd be in company with Writopia