![]() ![]() No Plot? No Problem!, the NaNoWriMo “Bible” written by founder Chris Baty, is published by Chronicle Books. He challenged 20 friends to write a novel with him that July, and they gathered together in coffeeshops each night to write together. Courtesy of National Novel Writing MonthĬhris Baty decided he wanted to write a novel and estimated that the most slender novels on his bookshelf – think The Great Gatsby – are approximately 50,000 words. We’re toasting 20 years of novel-writing chutzpah, motivation, and derring-do by going down NaNoWriMo’s memory lane. Thousands of novels have been published, both traditionally and self-published.Just to give you an idea of that volume: To count from 1 to 24,806,635,218 would take you about 1,589 years. ![]() 24,806,635,218 words have been recorded on the NaNoWriMo website (though many novels go unrecorded).Writers have come from more than 200 countries and written on all seven continents (yes, including Antarctica).More than 3 million people have signed up to write.Since then, those 20 friends have grown into a global community of writers who write together in various ways throughout the year, and they’ve put up some big numbers: NaNoWriMo started in July, 1999 (yes, July, not November), when founder Chris Baty invited 20 of his friends to join him on an audacious creative venture: to write 50,000 words of a novel in one month. ![]()
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