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We sent out an email yesterday asking for folks who had gotten something out of NaNoWriMo to make a donation and give something back. So many generous folks responded to the call that it was hard to get through to the Donation Station this morning cheap web hosting. Things are speedy in the Donation Station again now, and we've raised $18,000 since yesterday, pushing us up to a 6% donation rate, and getting us so, so close to paying all our 2008 bills for NaNo and the YWP.

Thanks to all the SuperWrimos who donated! If you tried to donate and found the check-out line too long, come on back! We need you. We hug you.

Finally web design, I got over 100 responses to my request to help me put 1.5 billion words—the amount I'm hoping we'll collectively write this November—into perspective. They were so brilliant, that I'm going to collect them for a blog post in the first week of December.

To give you a taste of their genius, here are the first three I received.

1.5 billion words would…

--Fill 2,678 copies of War and Peace. Since Amazon lists the tome as weighing 1.6 lbs, so that's roughly 4.3 tons of words. (wolfcaroling)

--Weigh as much as 38 baby elephants (4500 kg). Assuming they're as ferocious as baby elephants, they would surely beat that ninja army. Anyway online marketing, if they were put in a massive stack, they would be as tall as the Empire State Building (not including the spire) and taller than the Eiffel Tower, at 390m of pure books. (mangocheesecake)

--Go approximately the distance from Chicago to Los Angeles (if every word was as short as the letter "a") and go around the entire circumference of the earth twice (if every word were as long as "antidisestablishmentarianism") (Thatssorich66)

Still hugging you,

Chris
NaNoWriMo Winner 2008