Q:Marrije, you have the highest user number of any participant or staff
member at NaNoWriMo. How has this high-profile position affected your noveling? Does the status go to your head? Does it make you nervous?
A:Wow, I knew I had the highest
Posted by: Lindsey Grant on 11/19/2008
Q:Marrije, you have the highest user number of any participant or staff
member at NaNoWriMo. How has this high-profile position affected your noveling? Does the status go to your head? Does it make you nervous?
A:Wow, I knew I had the highest
Posted by: Chris Baty on 11/20/2008
I felt the ground move last night here in California. It was not an earthquake. It was the sheer game-changing momentum of thousands of NaNoWriMo participants digging deep within themselves and hitting 30K by bedtime.
Or maybe it actually was an earthquake. I haven't read the news yet.
Regardless, congratulations to those of you who took up the 30K By Bedtime on Wednesday challenge and nailed it. The thought of embarrassing myself in front of you pushed me to spend most of last night at a write-in in Berkeley, where one of our great local MLs, Candace, browbeat me across the 30K goal line.
It wasn't pretty, and I think I permanently husked my eyeballs. But I'm so, so glad to be at 30K. If you're not there yet, please come! You'll love it. But please be sure to blink occasionally while typing.
Our next mission: Let's push on to 40K by bedtime on Monday. I'll be there. You'll be there. We'll be totally caught up. And when we're through doing our 40K happy dance, we can begin icing the champagne together.
Mmm…champagne,
Chris
Posted by: Chris Baty on 11/20/2008
Today, WrimoRadio looks at noveling in the workplace with Nanos from London and Seattle. Do their bosses know? Is NaNoWriMo responsible for a global dip in productivity in November? Tune in and find out!
Posted by: Heather Dudley on 11/21/2008
Get your copy of No Plot? No Problem! by Chris Baty, the official guide to NaNoWriMo. Buy it in the NaNo store, at BetterWorld.com, Amazon, or your local shop!