According to his website:
Chris Baty accidentally founded National Novel Writing Month
in 1999, and oversaw the event's growth from 21 friends to more than 300,000
writers in 90 countries. Chris now serves as a Board Member Emeritus for
NaNoWriMo, teaches classes on writing and creativity through Stanford
University's Writer's Studio, makes posters, and endlessly revises his own
novels and screenplays. He's the author of No Plot? No Problem! and the
co-author of Ready, Set, Novel. His quest for the perfect cup of coffee is
ongoing, and will likely kill him someday.
Have you ever "accidentally founded" (or created or devised) anything?
Uh. Not me.
:)
Chris sounds like my kinda of guy! First he creates something amazing by accident and he loves coffee. It doesn't get any better than that!
ReplyDeleteThe only thing I've devised by accident is a driving shortcut and that was after getting lost :{
He's quite a creative guy. NaNo is a good concept. Yay, Chris!
ReplyDeleteI have. Some of the best things happen entirely by accident. :-)
Wow, I had no idea of the Nano origins. Pretty funny.
ReplyDeleteI suggested a friend start a Facebook group about something really niche and geeky, and a week later it had 1k members. Whoops!
I love that his little idea has exploded into something so huge and amazing. :)
ReplyDelete