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Jennifer Arzt

Jennifer Arzt was the Script Frenzy program director from 2008 to 2010. She holds an MFA degree in Film, Television, and Recording Arts.
After writing her first full-length screenplay during Script Frenzy 2007"April is Script Frenzy: Let the Frenzy Begin." Interview with Jennifer Arzt. 12 March 2009. Retrieved 30 July 2010. http://www.storylink.com/article/289, she ran into the OLL staff and asked what she could do to help them out. OLL happened to be looking for a Script Frenzy program director, so she applied, interviewed, and joined the Office of Letters and Light before Script Frenzy 2008.
Jennifer helped form some of Script Frenzy's current rules. During her first year as program director, the Script Frenzy team moved the event from June to April and changed the goal from 20,000 words to 100 pages to fit more closely to script standards and to be further away from the deadlines for some major scriptwriting competitions. The event's scope also expanded to include all scripts, not just screenplays and stage plays. All of these remain true to this day. She is also highly commended for raising the number of script frenzy participants by more than 13,500 during her time in office.
When she wasn't directing Script Frenzy, Jennifer was working on a feature filmBlue Cat Interviews. "Interview with Script Frenzy Program Director Jennifer Arzt." Retrieved 30 July 2010. http://www.bluecatscreenplay.com/screenwriting_help/interviews.php#c. Her films have appeared in festivals all over the country, and she is a winner of the Directors Guild of America Student Film Award. She also directed and produced NaNoVideo in 2009.
On December 2, 2010 Jennifer Arzt announced she was stepping down as the director of Script Frenzy to direct her script which she wrote in 2008. Sandra Salas replaced her as program director.
==References==
==See Also==
* Script Frenzy profile
* Twitter Feed
Category:OLL staff
Jezra Lickter

Jezra Lickter is NaNoWriMo's current web developer. He joined the NaNoWriMo staff just before Script Frenzy 2010 after eight years at an educational software company and scrambled to complete his first script while maintaining the Script Frenzy website's stability. Throughout the month, the staff members and interns reported on their progress, and Jezra's progress was noted for keeping his username a secret and for not having a title, outline, or logline. He also became more reluctant to describe his scripting mood in haiku as the month progressed "We Walk the Walk and Write the Scripts". Posted 5 April 2010. Retrieved 26 August 2010. http://www.scriptfrenzy.org/eng/node/3591606"Staff Spotlights: Still Walking that Walk!" Posted 13 April 2010. Retrieved 26 August 2010. http://www.scriptfrenzy.org/eng/node/3593372"Staff Spotlights." Posted 20 April 2010. Retrieved 26 August 2010. http://www.scriptfrenzy.org/eng/node/3594307"Staff Spotlights: The Final Stretch." Posted 27 April 2010. Retrieved 26 August 2010. http://www.scriptfrenzy.org/node/3595106.
The NaNoWriMo staff formally introduced Jezra to the community at large in a June blog post OLL Interns. "Introducing Jezra." Posted 1 June 2010. Retrieved 26 August 2010. http://blog.nanowrimo.org/node/425. He has formidable sideburns and a desire to stay on someone's boat. He also has a mind for language-related triviaSarah Mackey. "Things I Learned About OLL During My Internship: A Top 10 List by Sarah". Posted 25 June 2010. Retrieved 26 August 2010. http://blog.nanowrimo.org/node/427 and has been know to eat passwords for security purposesNora Coon. "Password protection is no laughing matter." Posted 26 August 2010. Retrieved 26 August 2010. http://blog.lettersandlight.org/post/1016370595/password-protection-is-no-laughing-matter
In July 2015 a lamb was born on Jezra's property. Wrimos were invited to send a postcard to NaNoWriMo HQ with name suggestions. 
Jezra enjoys writing software, bike riding, and playing the bagpipes. When he grows up he hopes to be an astronaut.
==References==
==External Links==
*Jezra's website
*Jezra's Script Frenzy Profile
Category:OLL staff
Katharine Gripp

Katharine Gripp is the current Communications Manager at NaNoWriMo HQ. She previously served as the Programs Associate during NaNoWriMo 2016, Customer Service Captain at National Novel Writing Month in 2015, and interned at NaNoWriMo during Camp NaNoWriMo 2014.
Katharine holds a B.A. in English with a minor in Medieval and Renaissance history from Vassar College. She admits to choosing these fields of study due to her love of young adult fantasy novels. Since graduating she has lived in the Bay Area and has worked as a ballet teacher, fitness instructor, dance performer, news article writer, non-profit project manager, and art model. She performs semi-professionally with several San Francisco dance companies.
Despite wearing many figurative hats, Katharine wears surprisingly few literal ones. Her snacking weakness is chocolate and chamomile tea .
Her birthday coincides with the first day of NaNoWriMo.
Category:OLL staff
Kickoff party

A kickoff party is a get-together that happens in late October before NaNoWriMo and in late March before Script Frenzy, quite often on the last weekend before the month. Some regions may also hold a kickoff on the first day of the month to get an early start on writing, or the night before with a countdown to midnight.
This get-together is typically a meet-and-greet session organized by a Municipal Liaison. The kickoff is often the first event in a Nano or Script Frenzy season (though some regions may have pre-planning parties beforehand as well). As a result it is also usually the most populous event. Some regions, particularly large ones, may hold multiple kickoffs to reach Wrimos spread over a large geographical area, to accommodate schedules, or to prevent crowding.
The events of a kickoff vary wildly by region and even by year and time within a region. Social time and introductions (along with descriptions of potential novels) are done, and nametags are often used. Games and other icebreakers may occur. MLs may also organize activities such as pre-planning and character worksheets and activities, Pimp My Plot (in which suggestions for plot twists are offered on others' novels), complete a Magna Carta or commitment, or do a short word war. Wrimos may also exchange advice and tips on each other's novels. Food or small goody bags may be provided as well.
==See Also==
* Write-in, an event held throughout the writing month
* TGIO party, an event held after the writing month
Category:NaNoWriMo terms
Category:Script Frenzy terms
Knights of NaNoWriMo

The Knights of NaNoWriMo are those brave and valiant souls who continue on regardless of how far behind on their word count they are. Even in week 5 they do not abandon hope (even if they are only at 10 or 20 thousand words), banding together to uplift each others spirits and word counts. Some Knights even deliberately postpone starting their writing into the latter half of November to further prove their overall point - no deadline is too short.
==External Links==
* Original 2010 Knights of NaNoWriMo Forum Thread
* Second 2010 Knights of NaNoWriMo Forum Thread
Category: NaNoWriMo forum threads
Category: NaNoWriMo terms
Kristina Malsberger

Kristina Malsberger was the first Script Frenzy program director, directing the program in June 2007. She holds a master's degree in film directing from UCLA and named the Script Frenzy event. She also made the first set of rules for Script Frenzy, in which a scriptwriter won by writing 20,000 words of script. This was changed the next year to 100 pages.
Kristina is also mentioned in the acknowledgments of No Plot? No Problem!
Category:OLL staff
LGBTQIA+

LGBTQIA+ is a forum for Wrimos in the LGBTQIA+ community to chat about anything LGBTQIA+. It was created as LGBT+ in September 2019 and gained its current name in June 2020. It lives within the Finding Your Crew forum and is an affinity group, so Wrimos who identify as LGBTQIA+ (including those who are questioning or unsure) must request to join. Nonmembers will not be able to view the forum.
When the LGBTQIA+ Fiction forum was created as LGBT+ Fiction in 2016, it also served as a social space for Wrimos in the LGBTQIA+ community. Before the creation of the genre lounge (and even after), almost every age group forum contained an LGBTQIA+ thread, which became popular and made discussion hard to follow.
The letters in the forum title are not meant to be complete, as terminology changes regularly. Wrimos who identify as queer, nonbinary, intersex, aromantic, asexual, or questioning (just to name a few) are also welcome. The forum is meant to be inclusive, not exclusive.
This forum is not meant for non-LGBTQIA+ Wrimos asking research questions for their story. Those questions should go in Reference Desk or Personal Experience as appropriate.
==Forum Description==
Your social center for all things LGBT+. Rather than forcing you into the LGBT+ Fiction forum, this is your hangout. (September 2019-June 2020)
Your social center for all things LGBTQIA+. Rather than forcing you into the LGBTQIA+ Fiction forum, this is your hangout. (June 2020-present)
==Topics and Threads==
* LGBTQIA+ introductions
* LGBTQIA+ book recommendations
* Discussions of LGBTQIA+ representation in the media
==Moderators==
===Present===
The global moderators (September 2019-present)
===Past===
See the above list of global moderators for any past moderators
==External Links==
LGBTQIA+ forum
Category:NaNoWriMo forums
LGBTQIA+ Fiction

LGBTQIA+ Fiction is a type of fiction written about members of the LGBTQIA+ community. Like Young Adult & Children's Fiction, Women's Fiction, and Historical Fiction, LGBTQIA+ fiction can fall under any genre or subgenre.
The LGBTQIA+ Fiction NaNoWriMo forum was created as LGBT+ Fiction in 2016. It was the most popular genre forum requested over the years. It also served as a social group for LGBTQIA+ Wrimos until 2019 when the LGBTQIA+ forum was added.
== Forum Description == 
"Scribbling along the sexuality spectrum? Going beyond the gender binary? This is the place to discuss such delightful diversity!" (2016-present)
== Topics and Threads ==
* Introductions/writing buddies thread
* This forum is new in 2016, so more threads will be added
== Moderators ==
=== Current Moderators ===
* Heather Dudley (2016-present)
* The global moderators (September 2019-present)
=== Former Moderators ===
* Tiakall (2017-September 2018)
* AlainaintheSky (2017-September 2018)
* Lauren E. Mitchell (2016-September 2019) (joined the global moderators)
== External Links ==
* NaNoWriMo LGBTQIA+ Fiction Forum
Category:NaNoWriMo forums
Laptop Loaners

Laptop Loaners was a NaNoWriMo program that provided loaner laptops. It began as early as 2002 with Brent Searcy as the head laptop librarian.
Wrimos wishing to acquire a laptop from the Laptop Library had to pay a deposit fee via check and provide identification, as well as pay for shipping the laptop back to the NaNo staff. The deposit check was voided and returned to the Wrimo upon receipt of the laptop.
The laptops were usually old, sans Internet access, and had to be plugged in, but they contained the essential things needed to complete NaNoWriMo: a word processor, external storage access, and a usable screen and keyboard.
Because demand for the loaner laptops often exceeded supply, the NaNo staff were very picky about who received them. Recipients were all but officially required to finish 50,000 words in November or risk the wielding of Guilt Monkeys.
In 2008 Alphasmart donated a set of new Alphasmart Neos for computerless Wrimos. The selection and distribution of these Neos was similar to the Laptop Loaners process.
The Laptop Loaners program appears to have ended before the 2009 event.
Category:NaNoWriMo terms
Lauren Harsma

Lauren Harsma was the Communications Captain at National Novel Writing Month during the NaNoWriMo 2014 season. She previously interned at NaNo HQ during NaNoWriMo 2013. Her responsibilities at NaNoWriMo included replying to emails, planning events, and walking Blobby.
Lauren holds degrees in Creative Writing and English Literature from Oswego State University and the University of Leeds. 
==External Links==
* Lauren on returning to NaNo as a staff member
* Lauren's internship welcome post
* Lauren's internship farewell post
Category:OLL staff
Lazette Gifford

Lazette Gifford, known as Zette on the NaNo website, is a longtime Wrimo known for her huge word counts. She has consistently overachieved since her first NaNo in 2001.
Lazette wrote NaNo for the New and the Insane, a detailed guide to taking on the NaNoWriMo challenge. This book was released in 2006 and is available for free on her own website and on Smashwords.
She is the owner of Forward Motion, a well-known website and discussion forum for writers.
==External Links==
* Lazette Gifford's NaNo profile
Category:Wrimos of Note
Len Peralta

Len Peralta is an artist known for his geeky artwork. He drew the art for the 2012 Summer Fundraising Drive trading cards and designed the NaNoWriMo 2013 Annual Report. While he has never participated in NaNoWriMo himself, he would love to participate one day.
He is also known for his Geek a Week cards and his illustrations for Jonathan Coulton's Thing a Week series.
==External Links==
* Len Peralta's website
* Interview with Len Peralta on the OLL blog
Category:OLL designers
Letitia Jones

Letitia Jones is the Online Community Manager and Lead Forums Moderator at National Novel Writing Month. She joined the staff in August 2021.
Letitia has participated in NaNoWriMo since 2010, writing her first 10,000 words on a series of bar napkins on a trip to Dublin. She has also served as a Municipal Liaison and forums moderator.
Letitia owns over 200 mugs and coffee cups. She lives in Manchester, England.
==External Links==
* Please Welcome Our New Lead Forums Mod (31 August 2021)
* Letitia's NaNoWriMo profile
Category: OLL staff
Life After NaNo

Life After NaNo (formerly Life After NaNoWriMo until September 2019) is a NaNoWriMo forum devoted to discussing life after NaNoWriMo. It was founded in 2007. This forum was formerly closed down during the site relaunch and reopened on December 1. Starting with the 2015 season, this forum is open year-round.
One could argue that there is no life after NaNoWriMo, only life before the next NaNoWriMo. This is a topic of debate in the forum.
The Life After NaNo forum contains one subforum, Big, Fun, Scary Adventures. Before September 2019, Life After NaNo was part of the I Wrote a Novel, Now What? container category (previously named December and Beyond).
== Forum Description == 
"Just a place to pass the time before the next National Novel Writing Month." (2007-2014)
"Withdrawal symptoms? You’re not alone. This is just the place to pass the time before the next National Novel Writing Month." (2015-present)
== Popular Topics and Threads ==
Topics of discussion typically include both writing related projects and other more general topics. Topicality is not typically as strictly enforced since this forum is only active during the off-season when misplaced threads are not as much of a concern and traffic is down. There are also general discussion chat threads started for every month (typically labeled things like "Fantastic February" or "Moving Along in March", etc.)
== Moderators == 
=== Current Moderators ===
* Dragonchilde (2007-present)
* The global moderators (September 2019-present)
=== Former Moderators ===
*highnez (2007)
*bpunkert (2007)
*ziggy488 (2010)
*Forestone (2011-before 2013)
* tiakall (December 2013-September 2018)
==External Links==
*Life After NaNoWriMo forum (with subforums filtered out)
Category:NaNoWriMo forums
Life During NaNo

The Life During NaNo forum container encompasses forums that are most useful during the actual NaNoWriMo event, but it still sees heavy use in the off season. 
== Forums in this Category ==
*All-Ages Coffee House
*Reaching 50,000 (as of 2015)
*NaNoWriMo Ate My Soul
*Beyond 50k (as of 2015)
*This is Going Better Than I'd Hoped
*Word Wars, Prompts & Sprints
*Shoutouts
*Dangerous Writers: Night of Writing Dangerously
==External Links==
*Life During NaNo Forums
Category:Lists
Category:NaNoWriMo forums
Like

A like (or like button) is a feature on the NaNoWriMo forums used to show that you like, appreciate, or support a post. The like button was introduced on the NaNoWriMo forums in 2019 when the forums moved to Discourse. However, the like button in general predates the NaNoWriMo forums and was popularized with other social media sites, particularly Facebook.
Before the NaNoWriMo forums moved to Discourse, one of the most popular requests in the Suggestions & Feedback forum was for a like button, increasing in popularity each year. In 2017 and 2018, replies similar to "I wish there was a like button so I could like this" became popular.
Your likes are visible to other Wrimos and are visible by clicking the "Activity" section of your forum profile. Also, each post shows which Wrimos have liked it.
==Reactions==
Reactions are similar to likes but use other preset emoji besides the heart button reserved for likes. Reactions were added to the NaNoWriMo forums in May 2021. Wrimos may like a post or react to it with a single reaction. It is not possible to like and react to the same post.
The current reactions include a laughing face, a shocked face, a crying face, an angry face, a velociraptor, and a person hugging a heart. 
Wrimos earn a forum badge for using a reaction for the first time. This badge is separate from the first like badge.
Reactions do not count as likes for Like Jail purposes. A Wrimo has suggested reducing the number of daily likes so Wrimos of higher trust levels can earn the badges associated with earning likes on posts.
==Likes and Trust Level==
The maximum number of likes you can give in a 24-hour period are as follows:
* Trust Level 1 (Basic): 500
* Trust Level 2 (Member): 750
* Trust Level 3 (Regular): 1000
* Trust Level 4 (Leader): 2000
If you reach the maximum number of likes in a 24-hour period, you will not be able to like any more posts until you have liked fewer than your limit in the past 24 hours. Unfortunately the wording in the message you see is confusing, so the solution is usually to wait awhile before liking a post.
Wrimos who have reached this limit jokingly refer to this as being in Like Jail. There is a Jailbird badge for achieving this badge, though it must be assigned manually in the Like Jail thread.
There is no limit for the number of likes you can receive beyond the practical limits of one like per person per post.
Giving and receiving likes play a small role in advancing to Trust Level 2 and Trust Level 3. To reach Trust Level 2, you must give at least one like and receive at least one like. To reach and maintain Trust Level 3, you must give at least 30 likes and receive at least 20 likes over the past 100 days.
==Forum-Specific Uses of the Like Button==
* In the Bug Reports forum, liking a post serves as a "Me Too", indicating that the issue also affects you.
==External Links==
* Discourse documentation on Likes
* "New Feature: Reactions!" forum thread
Category:NaNoWriMo terms
Like Jail

Like Jail refers to running out of likes on the NaNoWriMo forums. It can also refer to the forum thread for Wrimos in Like Jail.
Wrimo Writerfangirl coined the term Like Jail and started a thread declaring this with the subject "I'm in Like Jail!" Other Wrimos in Like Jail chimed in, and the thread evolved from there, eventually gaining a second iteration in May 2020.
There is a map of Like Jail drawn by Wrimo Tinyfist, displayed on the top of the second thread.
You can earn the Jailbird forum badge by posting in the current Like Jail thread and tagging a moderator.
==External Links==
* Original Like Jail thread
* Second Like Jail thread, created May 2020
Category:NaNoWriMo forum threads
Lindsey Grant

Lindsey Grant was the NaNoWriMo program director at the Office of Letters and Light. She completed her undergraduate education in her home state of Georgia"Joining a NaNoWriMo region." NaNoVideo. 27 October 2009. Retrieved 30 July 2010. http://www.viddler.com/explore/NaNoWriMo/videos/8/ and earned an MFA degree in creative writing from Mills CollegeNaNoWriMo staff page. Retrieved 30 July 2010. http://www.nanowrimo.org/eng/staff. She then joined OLL as the first community liaison and participated in her first NaNoWriMos and Script Frenzies, completing the challenge each time. When Chris Baty took on the executive director position full-time in summer 2010, Lindsey became the new NaNoWriMo program directorChris Baty. "Exciting staff news." NaNoWriMo Breaking News post. 7 June 2010. Retrieved 30 July 2010. http://www.nanowrimo.org/eng/node/3598342. Nancy Smith joined the OLL staff and took over the community liaison postLindsey Grant. "New Staff=Super-Exciting." NaNoWriMo Breaking News post. 29 July 2010. Retrieved 30 July 2010. http://www.nanowrimo.org/eng/node/3603349.
After NaNoWriMo 2012 Lindsey stepped down in order to pursue a full-time writing career and a move to Switzerland. Chris Angotti took over as Director of Programs.
Lindsey wrote Ready, Set, Memoir! (2021) and co-authored Ready, Set, Novel! (2011). Her nonfiction book about her adventures as an animal nanny, Sleeps with Dogs: Tales of a Pet Nanny at the End of Her Leash, was released in fall 2014http://sleepswithdogsbook.com/.
At some point in the past Lindsey earned money by walking dogs, as detailed in her memoir. She enjoys writing, food, traveling, and anything that will combine those activities. She shares a love of Disney music with Sarah MackeySarah Mackey. "Things I Learned About OLL During My Internship: A Top 10 List by Sarah." 25 June 2010. Retrieved 30 July 2010. http://blog.nanowrimo.org/node/427.
Lindsey served as a NaNo Coach during NaNoWriMo 2014 and as the Camp Memoir Camp Counselor in July 2021.
==References==
Category:OLL staff
List of 50,000 Word Novels

Here is a partial list of well-known novels that contain roughly 50,000 words, which in turn is roughly 175 pages, and are thus comparable to the average size of a NaNoWriMo winner's novel.
See also List of published authors who write quickly for published authors who consistently write at the NaNoWriMo pace or faster.
* The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams (46,333 words)
* The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks (52,000 words)
* The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane (50,776 words)
* The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (50,061 words)
* The Apostle Paul's Epistles from the Bible (43,293 words. 50,190 if you count Hebrews.) 
* Lost Horizon by James Hilton
* Shattered by Dean Koontz
* Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
* Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
* Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
* The Invisible Man by H. G. Wells
* Gadsby: A Story of Over 50,000 Words Without Using the Letter "E" by Ernest Vincent Wright
* As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner (56,695 words)
* The Giver by Lois Lowry (43,617 words)
* Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson (46,591 words)
* A Separate Peace by John Knowles (56,787 words)
* Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (46,118 words)
Interestingly, Brave New World, the novel famed to be the one Chris Baty used to choose the 50,000-word goal in No Plot? No Problem!, is 64,575 words long.
The NaNoWriMo website previously had a topic on their website, which was wiped in the site relaunch. It is still up on the Wayback Machine. A thread on this topic has already been posted in the 2012 forums, referencing this article.
Books of smaller word counts were more common in the 1800s and early 1900s, but the trend for books became longer with the rise of modern printing techniques. Nowadays, adult novels generally tend to range from 80k to 120k depending on genre, however, young adult is often closer to the range of a Nanowrimo winner, with 60-70k being desirable. In addition, digital publishing is making novels and novelettes of any length more accessible.
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