A quarter century after its inception — and less than a year after its “full-throated” defense of artificial intelligence in writing — the nonprofit behind the annual National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) challenge is closing its doors.
Kilby Blades, a romance author serving as NaNoWriMo’s interim executive director, announced in a video and in emails posted to social media that the nonprofit, which challenged participants to crank out a draft for a novel every November, would be shuttering because, essentially, it’s out of money.
In the nearly 30-minute-long video, Blades explained in detail the money problems that the competition — which spawned the bestselling “Water For Elephants” and incorporated into a nonprofit six years…
