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Personality begins where comparison leaves off. Be unique. Be memorable. Be confident. Be proud. ~ Shannon L. Alder I’m thick in National Novel Writing Month, and already I can see a lot of posts on social media where writers are sharing their word counts for each day. There’s a lot of camaraderie about these posts, and a lot of encouragement and support. But then there is also the inevitable comparisons, which usually happen within our writer-brains but which sometimes overspill online. For instance, these are the types of post I’ve been seeing, and their possible accompanying thoughts in parentheses: I…