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NaNoWriMo — National Novel Writing Month
5 min readMar 27, 2024
NaNoWriMo started in 1999, right where I live. The guy who dreamed it up, Chris Batty, at the time, lived not too far from where we are in Oakland, California. He had friends in Berkeley and San Francisco. They were writers who didn’t have a lot of motivation to write. The idea was to get together and push each other on to write. Somehow, the idea…