The Email That Launched NaNoWriMo
Fast Company magazine has been running an intriguing series called Starred, where they showcase innocuous emails that went on to do surprisingly big things. It inspired me to dig through my old Yahoo! account and see if I could find the email I sent out to my friends in 1999 inviting them to take part in a ridiculous book-writing endeavor I’d hatched the night before. Here’s that email, in all of its exuberantly imperfect glory.
From: Chris Baty
To: friendlist
Sent: Sunday, May 30, 1999 8:51 PM
Subject: national novel monthHear ye! Hear ye! Come one, come all, and dust off those word-processing devices!
Under the motto “A lousy novel is better than no novel at all,” I have declared July National Novel-Writing Month.
To celebrate, I want to write a novel. In a month. And I want you to write one too.
