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Nanowrimo is not a new trendy three block neighborhood. It is not the newest ipod for iphone. Nanowrimo is short for National Novel Writing Month which begins November 1st and lasts until midnight November 30th.
The goal of the 10 year-old contest is to write a 175-page novel (or 50,000 word) by the end of the month. Nanowrimo is more about quantity than quality. Writers have the month of December to edit their novel. Last year over 100,000 writers signed up for Nanowrimo, but only 15,000 writers actually made the 50,000 word count at the end of the month. Writers upload their novels on the website in order to be eligible for a winner's certificate and web badge. Throughout the month writers are able to post exerpts to the Nanowrimo website for procrastinating writers to read.
Nanowrimo was founded in 1999 by Chris Baty and twenty other writers. That year the contest was held in July and of the 21 participants, only six finished. By 20032 there were 25,500 participants and 3,500 finishers. Nanowrimo is now run by the Office of Letters and Light, a nonprofit organization based in Oakland, California. A number of Nanowrimo novelests have found publishers including Sara Gruen ("Like Water for Elephants") and Rebecca Agiewich ("BreakupBabe").
If writing 1,668 words a day sounds like fun to you, there are still three days to sign up.
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