The Writer - 11.2019

3,000,000+

PEOPLE HAVE SIGNED

UP TO WRITE

7

CONTINENTS THAT

HOST NANOWRIMO

WRITERS

(YES, INCLUDING

ANTARCTICA)

24,806,635,

WORDS HAVE BEEN RECORDED

ON THE NANOWRIMO WEBSITE

1,

AVERAGE NUMBER OF

YEARS IT WOULD TAKE

YOU TO COUNT TO

24,806,635,

writermag.com • The Writer | 13

1,000+
NOVELS EITHER
TRADITIONALLY
PUBLISHED OR SELF-
PUBLISHED AFTER
NANOWRIMO

200+

COUNTRIES WITH

NANOWRIMO

PARTICIPANTS

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,

words of a novel in one month.

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:

We’re toasting

20 years of novel-writing

chutzpah, motivation,

and derring-do by going

down NaNoWriMo’s

memory lane.

Ê