![]() ![]() NaNoWriMo Ambassador Victoria Schlesinger would.Had a flare-up of an old chronic repetitive stress in his NaNoWriMo veteran Tim Lohnes almost immediately.Baty: living on Red Bull and borrowed money.Once mention of NaNoWriMo hit, an online clearinghouse for issues being discussed by “bloggers” - people who keep online diaries known as Weblogs - it spread like a literary Ebola. This year, using a cute Web site featuring two cartoon kids waving books beneath the slogan “No plot? No problem!” Baty invited the whole world to join him in dashing off 50,000 words in thirty days. Last November, 140 took the challenge and 29 finished. ![]() Twenty-one of his friends signed on and six finished novels. As something of an in-joke, he dreamed up National Novel Writing Month - or NaNoWriMo for short. Two years ago, Chris Baty wanted to write a novel. If you graphed the progress of National Novel Writing Month’s hegemony, it would look like the lines epidemiologists use to illustrate the spread of dangerous viruses. ![]()
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