http://www.eastbayexpress.com/issues/2001-12-19/feature.html/1/index.html
2001 Winner Kara Platoni chronicles the thirty days of mayhem in a lengthy, hilarious East Bay Express cover story.

http://www.sfweekly.com/issues/2001-12-05/pop.html/1/index.html
Three-time winner and SF Weekly music guy Dan Strachota survives the month by writing "as if his arms were made of balloons and he was trying to form them into animal shapes."

http://seattleweekly.com/features/0147/arts-longenbaugh.shtml
Wrimo John Longenbaugh checks in with a rib-tickling update on the Seattle amateur novelist scene.

http://www.pghcitypaper.com/briefs.html
Short update on the good folks in NaNo's Pittsburgh chapter.

http://discuss.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/zforum/01/book110801.htm
The transcript of the riotous-yet-informative Washington Post on-line chat.

http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/atc/20011108.atc.20.ram
Where all our dreams come true when NPR's Noah Adams utters the phrase "NaNoWriMo" on All Things Considered. Los Angeles Wrimo Heather Havrilesky recounts the sad reality of voice recognition software-aided noveling.

http://www.theage.com.au/entertainment/2001/10/21/FFX5LM4B0TC.html
Q&A from the Melbourne Age in which Chris explains that "on December 1 you wake up, and it's a whole different dating landscape."


http://www.smh.com.au/news/0110/29/entertainment/entertain7.html
The venerable Sydney Morning Herald. And some very large sideburns.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2001/09/14/EB189645.DTL
Josh Sens' column in the Chronicle lays it all out: the speed, the alcohol, and Roxanne Chan of Albany, who recently placed first among thousands of entries in Mr. Food's Hometown Grilled Cheese Recipe Contest.

http://www.sfbg.com/lit/feb01/index.html
An Nano overview by NaNoWriMo 2000 winner Jenny Bitner. Originally appeared in the Guardian Lit section.

http://www.sfweekly.com/issues/2000-11-15/music3.html
Where two-time NaNoWriMo winner Dan Strachota signs up and wonders "Why have I decided to put myself through this extreme form of masochism?"

http://www.sfweekly.com/issues/2000-11-29/music3.html
Dan Strachota at Day 28: "Presently, my main character is waiting tables in a strip club/restaurant, where he serves filet mignon to drooling frat boys and day traders."

http://www.sfweekly.com/issues/2000-12-06/music3.html
Dan again, this time describing the Thank God It's Over Party: "The next thing I knew, others were yelling too, and it became this euphoric chorus of pent-up adrenaline."

http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0115/edlafarge.shtml
The Village Voice's Paul LaFarge places NaNoWriMo within the context of "automatic writing" movements of the past 200 years.

http://www.fabulamag.com/archives/matters/010_reluctanttexan.html
NaNoWriMo 2000 winner and Fabula Magazine columnist Elka Karl dishes the dirt on Frito Pies, crawfish, and her escalating word count.

http://www.nrc.nl/W2/Lab/Leestafel/01week06.html
Where someone from Holland writes "Veel mensen willen een roman schrijven maar laten zich weerhouden door de tijd, energie en moeite die zulks kost."

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2001/06/10/CM180154.DTL
Brief mention of NaNoWriMo in Tara Duggan's Chronicle article on three-minute film festivals.