on the east coast of the US, keyboards will be assaulted, paper will be abused by pencils and pens and the supply of caffeine will begin to mysteriously dwindle. Then every hour when another midnight ushers in November 1st, more will join in both the fight and the fun.
Tomorrow citizens across the world will arrive at work with notebooks (both digital and paper) to continue this abuse to themselves and to their equipment.
For it is NaNoWriMo – National Novel Writing Month. National means all nations, for NaNo is a global thing.
How many novels have been written through NaNoWriMo?
1999: 21 participants and six winners
2000: 140 participants and 29 winners
2001: 5000 particpants and more than 700 winners
2002: 13,500 participants and around 2100 winners
2003: 25,500 participants and about 3500 winners
2004: 42,000 participants and just shy of 6000 winners
(from NaNoWriMo FAQ)
I will be one of those morons writers again this year.
Will you be?