The Writer 11.2019

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NOVELS EITHER
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PUBLISHED AFTER
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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