Region/Europe/Finland

Europe :: Finland is a NaNoWriMo region covering the country of Finland. Its About Us message reads "Where the winters are long and the writing good - Finland!" Official Write-Ins are held in many cities, and in years 2014-2015, a national overnight Kick-Off party was held in the Helsinki area. There is regional Discord server, and during November, there is almost always a word war going on in there. A regional word war against Vancouver was held in years 2013-2015.
==Running Gags==
* Pasila: A place in Helsinki area and also a name for animated tv-series about police department of Pasila. Series includes lots of swear words which is why finns use Pasila as censor word for any cursewords on their regional forums.
* Piimä: Drink that is known in english as "sourmilk" or "buttermilk". This finnish nano-meme came to be at 2022, when one of the participants told how she was sent to clean a fridge at this office-location. When she was throwing expired sourmilk away, one of the office workers came by, being very angry that their sorumilk was being thrown away. After that participants started inventing reasons and stories for why that expired sourmilk was so important, to the point that this particular sourmilk would deserve the book of it's own.
* Tapio Lappaja: An anagram of 'tappajalapio' (Traveling Shovel of Death), the Finnish relative of Mr. Ian Woon.
* Senkki: A piece of storage furniture, known in English as 'a chest of drawers', often spotted in its genitive form 'senkin'.
==Forum Crisis of 2023==
During November 2023 when NaNoWriMo forums we're closed due to moderators X's wrong doings and Board of Directors investigation on the matter, Finland region as whole made decision to pull out from NaNoWriMo as an organization entirely. Region and their regional forum still exists on the site, but all active members of the region moved to their own forum which was founded in December 2023 with the name "Kirjoittajien Kilta" which translates to "Writer's Guild". Currently the region is continuing their regional events and activities under this new name with no affiliation to the NaNoWriMo organization. Their new forum includes Language cafe-area where writers (whether they're wrimos or not) are welcome to drop by to keep in touch with the region and find writer friends from another country.
==Regional Stats==
* 2014: 870 novelists; 27,748,090 words written; 31,894 average wordcount
* 2015: 838 novelists; 24,661,125 words written; 29,428 average wordcount
* 2016: 771 novelists; 20,602,410 words written; 26,721 average wordcount
* 2017: 766 novelists; 19,138,342 words written; 24,984 average wordcount
* 2018: 748 novelists; 17,260,357 words written; 23,075 average wordcount
* 2019: 458 novelists; 13,414,563 words written; 29,289 average wordcount2019's stats provided by Southpaw. Includes only homed members.
* 2020: 524 novelists; 13,607,833 words written; 25,969 average wordcountSent from NaNoWriMo HQ, February 2021. Consists of active homed participants who created a NaNoWriMo 2020 project.
* 2021: 381 novelists; 10,807,905 words written; 28,367 average wordcountNumbers from this point forwards we're provided by Southpaw and include only homed members who had created a project.
* 2022: 410 novelists; 11,009,227 words written; 26,851 average wordcount
* 2023: 420 novelists; 10,029,041 words written; 23,878 average wordcount
==Municipal Liaisons==
===Present===
None
===Past===
* Päärynä (2016-2017)
* Puolimieli (2016-2019)
* TpM (2017-2021)
* sv (2013-2017, 2019-2020)
* Maego (2020-2023)
* Southpaw (2020-2023)
==Notes==
==External Links==
* Finland regional page
* Finland regional forum
* NaNoFinland Twitter
* NaNoSuomi - old regional Twitter, active during 2011 season
* Kirjoittajien Kilta
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