NaNoGenMo 

 NaNoGenMo

 National Novel Generation Month - based on an idea Darius Kazemi tweeted on a whim .

 Editions

 2025 

 2024 

 2023 

 2022 

 2021 

 2020 

 2019 

 2018 

 2017 

 2016 

 2015 

 2014 

 2013 

 The Goal

 Spend the month of November writing code that generates a novel of 50k+ words. This is in the spirit of National Novel Writing Month 's interesting definition of a novel as 50,000 words of fiction.

 The Rules

 The only rule is that you share at least one novel and also your source code at the end.

 The source code does not have to be licensed in a particular way, so long as you share it. The code itself does not need to be on GitHub, either. We're just using this repo as a place to organize the community. (Convenient because many programmers have GitHub accounts and the Issues section works like a forum with excellent syntax highlighting.)

 The "novel" is defined however you want. It could be 50,000 repetitions of the word "meow". It could literally grab a random novel from Project Gutenberg. It doesn't matter, as long as it's 50k+ words.

 Please try to respect copyright. We're not going to police it, as ultimately it's on your head if you want to just copy/paste a Stephen King novel or whatever, but the most useful/interesting implementations are going to be ones that don't engender lawsuits.

 This activity starts at 12:01am GMT on Nov 1st and ends at 12:01am GMT Dec 1st.

 How to Participate

 Open an issue on the edition's repo and declare your intent to participate. If you already have some inkling of the kind of project you'll be doing, please title your issue accordingly. You may continually update the issue as you work over the course of the month. Feel free to post dev diaries, sample output, etc.

Also feel free to comment on other participants' issues.

 Admins

 Official admins for NaNoGenMo are @dariusk and @hugovk. We'll be doing our best to keep the issues section well organized and tagged.

 Resources

 There's an open issue for each edition where you can add resources (libraries, corpuses, APIs, techniques, etc).

 There are already a ton of resources on the resources threads for old editions:

 2013 
 2014 
 2015 
 2016 
 2017 
 2018 
 2019 
 2020 
 2021 
 2022 
 2023 
 2024 
 2025 

 You might want to check out corpora , a repository of public domain lists of things: animals, foods, names, occupations, countries, etc.

 See Also

 NaPoGenMo : National Poetry Generation Month
 NaOpGenMo : National Opera Generation Month
 NaMoGenMo : National Movie Generation Month

 That's It

 Have fun!