NaPlWriMo

[Thank you for your patience while the site is being remodeled over the course of this year. Things might change quite a bit around here but it will will all be settled by this summer, we promise ! ]

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National Playwrighting Month… Nap-ple-wri-mo. See, it’s not that hard to prounounce ! And yah , we should take out the na for national because really we are in-ternational but so is NaNoWriMo and they inspired us. So there. NaPlWriMo was created in 2006. I was watching all the excitement happening around NaNoWriMo and being a playwright and not a novelist, I was really feeling left-out. I was talking to my friend Steve ( another playwright) and told him jokingly : “maybe we should just have NaPlWriMo.” “YES, YES”, he exclaimed. “Do it ! You should. You should really do it.” And so I did. Armed with a wordpress blog and phpbb2 forums, NaPlWriMo had about 20 participants in 2006. We had a blast and 13 won. This year, we have about twice as many. I tried to get fancy but the site crashed and it wasn’t funny. So here we are again… the grassroots way, armed with a blog and discussion board. Write a play in November. That’s what it’s about. No screenplays. Screenplays aren’t the same thing and besides, we like Script Frenzy and they do it in April. Naplwrimo’s mission is to nurture playwrights of all levels while fostering community and the creation of new theatrical works on a global level. For more… read the NaPlWriMo blog.