Daily Q&A

Q: Lindsey, you just started working for the Office of Letters and Light. What is the most unexpected project you are working on this week?
A: Well I’ll tell you. On my second day in the office, I found pages and pages of stories in my inbox with a note that

Q: Todd, you're designing the brand-new, super-exciting NaNoWriMo Young Writers Program site, launching this fall. Can you give us a preview, and regale us with tales of adventures you've faced along the way?

A: I’m very excited by the challenge that

Q: You've signed on to be the digital taskmaster overseeing a few exciting new features and improvements to the NaNoWriMo site in time for our 10th anniversary year. Can you give us a sneak peak on what you're working on?

A: We have lots of wonderful new

Q: John, you wrote 518,335 words in the 30 days of November. This is amazing (and borderline insane)! How did you do it?

A: Borderline insanity is coming back to NaNoLand for the fourth straight year. 500K is so far into the mists of

Q: Bart, your personal desire to write in other genres led you to begin a LiveJournal community called Genre Challenge. Could you tell us more about your plans for the community, including ways for fellow Wrimos to get involved?

Q: Endah, you lead an online writing class for Indonesians, as well as lead a kindergarten and undertook ML duties during NaNo. How do your various groups interact, and what are the benefits in teaching so many age levels during NaNo?

Q: Lisa, you're a psychotherapist and NaNo participant. During Thanksgiving, a lot of American Wrimos struggle to juggle novel-writing and family get-togethers. How can we make time to write without feeling like anti-social, self-obsessed jerks?