And whether future generations here will look up from their fields sometimes at sunset, at the mud forts and checkpoints built in these final years, and think for a minute or two of the men who fought and died so far from home.

BBC: Afghanistan: How will all the sacrifice be remembered?

From up here, he can look down on the very different worlds of Rowner and Alverstoke next door.

BBC: Programme transcript

Even the writers within NaNoWriMo need their own mentors to look up to and to that end, here are 3 success stories that bloomed from those 30 days.

FORBES: NaNoWriMo: Success Stories By The Words