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- Founder: Chris Baty
- Founded: July, 1999
- Origin: San Francisco, California
- Book: No Plot? No Problem! ISBN 0811845052
- Start Time / Date: 12:00 AM November 1
- End Time / Date: 11:59 PM, November 30
- Kids Can Write: NaNoWriMo Young Writers Program
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National Novel Writing Month, better known as "NaNoWriMo," is an international creative writing project with the goal for each participant to write a 50,000 word novel during the month of November. The NaNoWriMo tagline is, "Thirty days and nights of literary abandon..." and that is exactly what participants experience.
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Aspiring novelists register for free, from all around the world, to participate, spurring each other on through profile pages, local and global forums, and local in-person meet ups. Writers range in skill level and experience from multiple published authors to fledgling writers who have never written a novel.NaNoWriMo also has a Young Writers Program, for aspiring writers under the age of 18 to participate in the same writing challenge as their adult counterparts.
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History of NaNoWriMo
National Novel Writing Month began in 1999, on less than a shoe-string budget as just a fun thing for a bunch of friends and acquaintances to share. Now, in 2009, NaNoWriMo is still going strong, and is an international challenge with more than 100,000 participants from around the globe. The Office of Letters and Light is the nonprofit governing agency for NaNoWriMo and its other projects, like the Young Writers Program and ScriptFrenzy.NaNoWriMo Year #10--2008 - Coming soon.
NaNoWriMo Year #11--2009 - Register Now!
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One Crazy Writing Month
Following the idea that the best way to be a writer is to write, Chris Baty founded National Novel Writing Month, NaNoWriMo, to provide support and inspiration for writers to break away from the traditional hangups that stall that stagnate a writer, and simply do one thing: write.The goal of NaNoWriMo -- to complete a "crappy" first draft of at least 50,000 words toward a novel in the thirty days of the month of November -- ideally, NaNoWriMo will help to train writers to write. The goal of the challenge is to help a writer continue that habit of daily writing after the NaNoWriMo event ends.
In order to achieve the NaNoWriMo goal of 50,000 words in less than thirty days, the participants must write nearly daily. For American NaNoWriMo participants, this event has to be worked around the Thanksgiving holiday.
Participants have from 12:00 AM on November 1st through 11:59:59 on November 30th to finish their novel and validate it through the on-site word count validation software in order to be declared a NaNoWriMo 'winner'.
Click this link for information on How to Win NaNoWriMo.
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NaNoWriMo Questions
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How many of you are going to enter NaNoWriMo this November? 6 AnswersI am going to do NaNo again and I plan on completing it this time around. I tried last year but only got a few thousand words in and life started happening arou... read more -
Okay, NaNoWriMo starts in just over two 1/2 weeks. What's your user name? 6 AnswersI'm signed up again and this year I plan to complete is a winner! I'll add the others once the site's operating again. Right now, I'm receiving errors. I'm Jo B... read more
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What is NaNoWriMo? 1 AnswerNational Novel Writing Month is a fun, seat-of-your-pants approach to novel writing. Participants begin writing November 1. The goal is to write a 175-page (50,... read more
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@racheluna13 i checked. it was from someone who i followed for nanowrimo /shot idk how i thought it was you D:
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over a month of literary abandon culminated today. I got the proof of my #NaNoWriMo book.
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FUCK YOU, 3RD OR (MORE LIKELY) 4TH ROUND OF #NANOWRIMO-NOVEL-POLISHING *BAAAAAAAARF*
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@ThatWeirdChip I wrote some 15k thing for NaNoWriMo, but I haven't touched that thing since December. Plus other things. I've tried.
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The class really liked my poem! They especially liked the title (which I got off the NaNoWriMo forums...) and complimented my phrases. Yay!!
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