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National Novel Writing Month (often shortened to NaNoWriMo, ""), is an annual, Internet-based creative writing project that takes place during the month of November. NaNoWriMo challenges participants to write 50,000 words (the minimum number of words for a novel) from November 1 until the deadline at 11:59PM on November 30. The goal of NaNoWriMo is to get people writing and keep them motivated throughout the process. The website provides participants with tips for writer's block, local places writers participating in NaNoWriMo are meeting, and an online community of support. The idea is to focus on completion instead of perfection. NaNoWriMo focuses on the length of a work rather than the quality, encouraging writers to finish their first draft so that it can later be edited at the author's discretion. NaNoWriMo's main goal is to encourage creativity worldwide. The project started in July 1999 with 21 participants, but by the 2010 event, over 200,000 people took part and wrote a total of over 2.8 billion words. Writers wishing to participate first register on the project's website, where they can post profiles and information about their novels, including synopses and excerpts. Word counts are validated on the site, with writers submitting a copy of their novel for automatic counting. Municipal leaders and regional forums help connect local writers, holding writing events and providing encouragement. There was also an associated script-writing challenge in April called Script Frenzy. This event was cancelled after its 2012 run due to declining participation.〔Important News about Script Frenzy (Important News about Script Frenzy ) (Retrieved June 28, 2012)〕 == History == Freelance writer Chris Baty started the project in July 1999 with 21 participants in the San Francisco Bay area. In 2000, it was moved to November "to more fully take advantage of the miserable weather."〔 and launched an official website, designed by a friend of Baty's.〔 That year 140 participants signed up for the event, including several from other countries. Baty launched a Yahoo! group to facilitate socialization between participants and, after the posters began asking about guidelines, he set most of the event's basic ground rules: the novel must be new, cannot be co-authored, and must be submitted in time to be verified. Of the 140 participants, 29 completed the challenge as manually verified by Baty himself.〔〔 The following year, Baty expected similar numbers but 5,000 participants registered, which he credits to news of the event being spread by bloggers and later being reported on by various news organizations including the ''Los Angeles Times'' and ''Washington Post''.〔 Though Baty was happy with the large turnout and popularity of the event, it nearly did not happen as the website had a number of problems〔〔 leading to participants being asked to post themselves as winners on an honor system; in the end, 700 people would do so.〔 2002 saw technical improvements and increased automation to the site and media attention from National Public Radio〔 and CBS Evening News drew increased attention and a participant count of 14,000. The next year, the NaNoWriMo team began the Municipal Liaison program and sent out the first set of pep talk emails. Baty also began work on "No Plot? No Problem!" during the 2003 NaNoWriMo, writing the NaNoWriMo guide concurrent with his own fiction novel. The event continued to grow strongly every year, and by 2013 over 400,000 people participated (in 2010 it was calculated that 2,872,682,109 words were written.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Great NaNoWriMo Stats Party )〕) In 2011, the NaNoWriMo website was given a new layout and forums and Baty announced that he would be stepping down as Executive Directive in January 2012 to pursue a full-time writing career.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Office of Letters and Light blog )〕 Grant Faulkner took his position as Executive Director. The redesigned website moved from being based on Drupal to Ruby-on-Rails.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Breaking News )〕 During the first month after launch, the new website supported over 1,000,000 visitors and more than 39,000,000 pageviews.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=National Novel Writing Month – Building A Novel Website )〕 In 2015, all programs are getting new sites. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「National Novel Writing Month」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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