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Camp NaNoWriMo, a virtual
writing retreat for those who
can’t write in November,
launches. In the ensuing
years, it grows to 75,000 par-
ticipants, with sessions in
both April and July, and writers
write any format, revise, and mea-
sure their goals by words, pages,
or time.

NaNoWriMo’s novel-writing
workbook, Ready, Set, Novel, is
published.

Hugh Howey’s NaNoWriMo novel
Wool is published.

“The festival of carpal tunnel that
is NaNoWriMo has been the great-
est thing to happen to me as a
writer. Gentle pressure applied
constantly is an incredible force. If
you work on your writing every
single day, you can accomplish
great things. It’s like climbing a
mountain one step at a time; the
key is never to stop.”
—Hugh Howey

Marissa Meyer’s NaNoWriMo
novel Cinder is published.

“Anyone who has ever written
‘The End’ on a manuscript
knows that, sometimes, inspira-
tion eludes us. No one looks
forward to those lulls in the
writing process, but they are
natural, and they can be overcome. These are the
times when we must proceed on willpower and
caffeine and the unflappable confidence that each
word we write is one word closer to a finished
novel. I can promise that, tough as those times
may be, they often lead to some of our most proud
and beautiful writing moments.” —Marissa Meyer

Rainbow Rowell’s
NaNoWriMo
novel Fangirl is
published.

Elizabeth Acevedo
writes a rough
draft of With the
Fire on High, which is pub-
lished in 2019 to great
acclaim.

NaNoWriMo launches its
revision and publishing initia-
tive – “I wrote a novel, now
what?” – to help people
with the revising and pub-
lishing stages of the novel-
writing journey.

“When you reach the place
on Manuscript Mountain that
makes you consider admit-
ting defeat, and the tools you
have used to get as far as
you have are no longer work-
ing for you, consider using
someone else’s tools. Pant-
ser? Try plotting. Plotter? Try
literally burning your outline
(safely! In a trash can or
something!). Perfectionist?
Try writing the worst scene
you can possibly muster.
Strict beginning-to-end-er?
Write whatever scene is
burning a hole in your brain
and fill in the gap later. What-
ever you do, don’t hold so
tightly to whatever writer
identity you have formed for
yourself that you can’t inno-
vate, change, and grow.”
—Veronica Roth

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