![]() We’re gonna do this, we’re gonna do this quickly, and it’s gonna be bad.Īt the cafes where the first group gathered in 1999, Chris said that, thanks to the novelty of a group of people with laptops in a coffee shop, “people thought we were playing Battleship.” There were just 21 participants that year. ![]() He spoke to the class about the beginnings of the one-month novel. He visited a Stanford course designed around NaNoWriMo, taking notes and listening attentively as students gave elevator pitches for their novels, and even going so far as to isolate some of the themes they shared: isolated groups, a fear of the future, and questioning parental identity. An author, speaker, blogger, and freelance journalist, he’s perhaps best known as the founder of National Novel Writing Month ( NaNoWriMo). Chris Baty’s ebullient voice and San Franciscan diction convey an excited, restless passion, whether he’s discussing writing or the weather. ![]()
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