NaNoWriMo Update

Early in November, I wrote about the NaNoWriMo contest.

As I was browsing through some blogs this week, I ran across two participants in the National Novel Writers Month contest. First was LA Scene who claimed over 73,000 words in a second year of successful writing. Then tonight I found another, an udge and a wink who won the habit of writing. That is, after all, the stated purpose of the contest.

982, 564, 701 words were logged this year by 79, 813 writers. A Statistics Wrap-up breaks down the results and compares them with last year. It also includes a list of the top 10 regions by word count. It appears the NaNoWriMo contest was a big success.

Curious about what participants wrote? Take a peek.

20 days before Christmas

20 20 days before Christmas

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NaNoWriMo

Today marks the first day of National Novel Writing Month.

No plot? No problem. The idea is to get people writing, so quality is up to you. Start now and put down 50,000 words: any theme, any genre, any language. If you don't have an ending, that's okay -- yours is a novel that still needs work. Remember, the idea is to get people to start writing.

Submit your work beginning Nov. 25 for verification. If you have reached or exceeded 50,000 words, you are a winner. National Novel Finishing Month is December and National Novel Editing Month is March. But why stop there? Other spinoffs include blogging and comics.

Last year, over 700 million words were submitted by participants.

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