Bio

Chris Baty is the founder of and Program Director for National Novel Writing Month (aka “NaNoWriMo”), a prize-free contest held each November in which participants attempt to write a 50,000-word novel in 30 days. In 2008, nearly 120,000 people signed on and over 20,000 "won" -- making it through to other side, first draft in hand. All told, participants wrote an astounding 1.6 billion words.

Baty and the Office of Letters and Light also run a month-long script-writing event called “Script Frenzy,” in which more than 12,000 participants wrote over 180,000 pages in 2009.

He’s a novelist himself, having participated in each year's NaNoWriMo, as well as the author of No Plot, No Problem, “A Low-Stress, High-Velocity Guide to Writing a Novel in 30 Days.”

On the Web: NaNoWriMo, Script Frenzy, No Plot, No Problem