Events
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Virtual Write-Ins
Can’t make it to an in-person write-in? Join us at a virtual one, streamed live from NaNoWriMo HQ. After all, writing is that much easier in the company of writers from around the world!
- We write together!
- We challenge each other to word sprints.
- We offer suggested prompts to help you find inspiration.
See all our scheduled Virtual Write-Ins on YouTube.
Watch our archived Virtual Write-Ins.
YouTube Guides
Every year we partner with bookish YouTube vloggers to provide you with short, fun, weekly noveling tips. This year, we’re working with more folks than ever to bring you an expanded Virtual Write-In schedule as well! Your 2017 YouTube Guides include the Word Nerds; Farah Shamma of A BookTube Book; Kristina Horner; Francina Simone; Abigael Taiwo; and Derek Murphy.
Watch our YouTube Guide videos.
NaNo Word Sprints
What’s a word sprint? It’s a timed writing exercise to write as quickly as you can for a set amount of time. You can take on a suggested prompt or dare, too!
Why take part in a word sprint? To rev up your writing momentum, and get you sprinting past your inner editor.
Tackle a word sprint with our new word-sprint tool!
Follow @NaNoWordSprints on Twitter.
NaNo Coaches
Every week of November, a published author will take over our official Twitter account, @NaNoWriMo, to answer your questions and coach you through drafting your novel.
All tweets that come from our NaNo Coaches will be signed with the hashtag #NaNoCoach. If you want to make sure your question or thoughts make their way to your coach’s clipboard, please include #NaNoCoach in your tweet, too!
2017 NaNo Coaches
K. Ancrum grew up in Chicago, Illinois. She was lured into getting an English degree after spending too many nights experimenting with hard literary criticism and hanging out with unsavory types, like poetry students. She cut her teeth on NaNoWriMo with her debut novel The Wicker King, and is working on a sequel titled The Weight of Stars. She is a self-professed procrastinator, and firmly believes that you can still get a job done well even if you waited until the last minute.
Jasmine Guillory is lawyer and a writer who lives in Oakland, California. She has towering stacks of books in her living room, a cake recipe for every occasion, and upwards of 50 lipsticks. Her debut novel, The Wedding Date, comes out in February 2018.
Mur Lafferty is a podcaster, author, and editor. She has two podcasts on writing: I Should Be Writing and Ditch Diggers. In 2017 her book based on ISBW came out, with the same title. She co-edits the Podcast magazine Escape Pod and publishes science fiction and fantasy with Orbit Books and Serial Box. (Author photo credit: JR Blackwell)
Emily X.R. Pan is the author of The Astonishing Color of After, which comes out on March 20, 2018. She currently lives in Brooklyn, New York, but was originally born in the Midwestern United States to immigrant parents from Taiwan. She received her MFA in fiction from NYU, where she was a Goldwater Fellow. She is the founding editor-in-chief of Bodega Magazine, and a 2017 Artist-in-Residence at Djerassi. Visit Emily online and find her on Instagram.
G. S. Prendergast is a novelist and screenwriter. She has been nominated for numerous awards, including the BC Book Prize, and the CLA Award. She won the Westchester Award in 2014. Gabrielle’s 2011 NaNoWriMo Novel, Zero Repeat Forever, was sold to Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers. It published in August 2017. Gabrielle lives in Vancouver with her husband, daughter, and two chickens.
