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Re-sharing this post I found on Twitter for people looking for alternatives to NaNo. I haven't tried any of these sites but they might be worth looking into.

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*taps mic*

Fuck NaNoWriMo

It's always been a shit way to write a book. Slamming through fifty thousand words in a month leads to burnout and a garbage draft you'll spend more time unfucking than if you'd actually just paced yourself.

I'm proposing Novel Outline November

Start with your idea on November 1st.

Write something for your novel every day. The only unacceptable amount is 0.

Attempt to complete the plot in 50K words. Stick with that as a limiting factor so you focus on what's most important to your story.

When it's done it's done! Everyone is a winner!

You will

Develop good writing habits

Challenge yourself to write long form

Create a base that can be expanded into commercial fiction (70-100K) or genre fiction (100-110K)

Happy writing!

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Free Resource Library for Fiction Writers

Hey all, I maintain a free library of downloads and checklists for fiction writers which you can access through my website. This is what's current, but I update it and add stuff all the time. They're all printable, too! Woo hoo!

Download the Free Resource Library right here.

Get Access to the Free Resource Library on my website :)

Hope this helps!

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@theliteraryarchitect is a writing advice blog run by me, Bucket Siler, a writer and developmental editor. For more writing help, download my Free Resource Library for Fiction Writers (yep, this one!), join my email list, or check out my book The Complete Guide to Self-Editing for Fiction Writers.

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"Would anyone want to read --" Listen, imma stop you right there. Yes. YES, someone would want to read that. You write that weird little fucked up story. Or that domestic little slice of life story. That drabble or that 300k monster.

I promise someone wants to read it.

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writing tip #3695:

meet other writers so you can procrastinate together

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When it comes to sex scenes, the rules say things like: Don’t write them at all, and if you do, don’t use these words. Don’t write them silly, porny, dramatic, tragic, pathological, grim, or ridiculous.

My whole practical thesis around the craft of writing a sex scene is this: it is exactly the same as any other scene. Our isolation of sex from other kinds of scenes is not indicative of sex’s difference, but the difference in our relationship to sex. It is our reluctance to name things, the shame we’ve been taught, our fraught compulsion to an act a theatre of types. It is indicative of the lack of imagination that centuries of patriarchy and white supremacy has wrought on us. 

To teach sex scenes is to talk about plot, dialogue, pacing, description and characterisation: all those elements that make a captivating scene. A sex scene should advance the story and occur in a chain of causality that springs from your characters’ choices. It should employ sensory detail that concretises and also speaks symbolically to the deeper content of the story. Or if not, it should service your work of art in whatever ways you want from your scenes.

“Mind Fuck: Writing Better Sex” in Body Work by Melissa Febos

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i think we as a society need to use cell phones/laptops/cars/backpacks to flesh out characters

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Happy Day 22, Writerly Self Care.

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wait why does my toaster look so yonic right now

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Just popping in to say thank you! The daily emails have really helped me, and I'm grateful to have something that has turned out to be so nice, to begin filling the NaNo void

Sorry this took a hot minute to respond to! I'm really glad the newsletter's been good for you!

It's nice to look at the archive now at this point in the month and see a nice solid bank of resources. I hope to be a little more prepared next year so I won't miss any days, but I like to hope it's encouraged a lot of people to write more and avoid NaNo.

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If generative AI were trained only on public domain works, and was not horrible for the environment, and was always clearly marked computer-generated and never attempted to be passed off as anything else, and was always automatically public domain from creation, literally no one would have a problem with it.

But unfortunately we live in the world where tech billionaires are just stealing from poor people who've in most cases never seen a single cent in return for all of their work, then selling this stolen content to other rich fucks, and allowing it to be used to scam people out of their time and money in various ways and costing artists of all kinds their jobs, and all the while the billionaire fucks and their accomplices are pretending they're all just doing this to help "those poor useless disabled people, who are fundamentally incapable of creating anything for themselves."

yeah fucking right.

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Day 3! We tackle core skills for fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and fanfiction!

To anyone still doing NaNo: consider, not! The organization has committed itself to insisting AI can replace artists, and used ableism to justify it. Join me in practicing craft, and if you're looking for a community, the discord server that brought you the goncharov lore compendium has pivoted to original work, and we're doing word counts and sprints!

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Happy second day of November! Consider ditching NaNo and doing a challenge by a disabled creator instead!

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Hey folks! giving up NaNoWriMo because of their shit terrible AI policies and ableism? give another writing challenge a try! happy november!

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Today's the day!

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The point of fiction is actually to put that guy in a situation™️, and he might try to tell you the point is to then get him out of the situation, WRONG, second situation

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Another source! This one's very sweet and encouraging about the different difficulties people tackle when writing.