The Phantom of W.A.W.

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The Phantom of Writing About Writing

Back in Fall of 2012, Chris was cloned. Not mere­ly cloned at the phys­i­cal DNA lev­el, but his clone was also giv­en a mem­o­ry over­lay so that until that exact moment of its cre­ation they were the same per­son. Even now, their main dif­fer­ences tend to have to do with hair dye and lik­ing NaNoW­riMo. His clone lives deep with­in the base­ment in a sub­ter­ranean king­dom, and ter­ror­izes the staff of Writ­ing About Writ­ing, occa­sion­al­ly kid­nap­ping young divas (espe­cial­ly if they’re named Eri­ka).   He also occa­sion­al­ly hacks into the Writ­ing About Writ­ing main­frame and posts his own arti­cles. He keeps the archive down in the base­ment where Chris can’t get to them.

You Can’t Stop the Signal–Evil Chris intro­duces Him­self
15 Things to Remem­ber About NaNoW­riMo if You Do It Despite the Advice Not To
Lib­er­at­ing Eri­ka from the Pre­ten­titron
Why Fail­ure is Awe­some but Quit­ting is for Losers
NaNoW­riMo Warm Up (Best if done before NaNo)
7 Bits of Advice to Get You Through Week Three NaNoW­riMo
Alea Iac­ta Est (10 Item Final Prep Check­list for NaNoW­riMo)

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