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Camp NaNoWriMo

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Camp NaNoWriMo is a proposed year-round version of NaNoWriMo. Speculation began in August 2009 when Chris Baty posted a blog post chronicling his and Lindsey Grant's trip to the screenprinter for the 2009 NaNoWriMo shirts[1]. One of the shirts featured a Camp NaNoWriMo design with the logo "An idyllic writers retreat, smack-dab in the middle of your crazy life".

Speculation fueled in October when the Fund-o-Meter showed Camp NaNoWriMo at the $750,000 spot. The text read, "750K = A very exciting new program codenamed 'Camp NaNoWriMo' will be developed and built. The program will bring a free, year-round version of NaNo to the Internet in early 2011. That's right, NaNo citizens: ALL YEAR ROUND!"[2] When fundraising hit the book before the $750,000 level, Wrimos began to speculate even more about the specific nature of Camp NaNoWriMo. In December, Dragonchilde explained on the forums that Camp NaNoWriMo would give Wrimos some of the tools to do NaNo and that its existence was contingent on funding[3]

In May 2011 the NaNoWriMo staff made a teaser announcement about Camp NaNoWriMo, along with plans for a Camp and Guts donation drive[4]. The Camp NaNoWriMo site is slated to open in mid-June 2011, with the challenge itself beginning in July 2011[5]

A version of Camp NaNoWriMo has been in OLL's three-year strategic plan since since the strategic plan's creation in 2008[6].

References

  1. Chris Baty. "Field trip to Babylon!" 22 August 2009. Retrieved 31 August 2010. http://blog.nanowrimo.org/node/247
  2. NaNoWriMo Fund-o-Meter. Retrieved 31 August 2010.
  3. Dragonchilde. "RE: What is the Year Round Camp NaNoWriMo Thing?" Posted 10 December 2009. Retrieved 31 August 2010. http://www.nanowrimo.org/eng/node/3474880#comment-4486803
  4. Lindsey Grant. "Let's all go to camp. Camp NaNoWriMo!" Camp NaNoWriMo announcement. Retrieved 21 May 2011. http://www.nanowrimo.org/node/4032185
  5. Lindsey Grant. "It's that time again..." OLL Newsletter. Retrieved 5 June 2011. http://www.nanowrimo.org/files/main/OLL_newsletter_may11_final_web_0.html
  6. NaNoWriMo history. Retrieved 31 August 2010. http://www.nanowrimo.org/eng/history