#nnwm

[elliotly]

I have caved and am doing a pitch event today so if you want a peek at the NNWM characters/their moodboards we'll be dropping them throughout the day on the Melliot twitter/bsky !

[toasted-teo-writes]

Doing November Writing Month on Ellipsus-- fuck AI-- so gonna post the link soon to check it out. Currently trying to just get through a chapter a day. Gonna be about men, cowboys, pirates, fatherhood, and the chase for a legacy.

[phoenixsnapsh]

NaNoWriMo Day 2

...I got distracted by Spiritfarer and I'm already needing to play catch up.

GOAL: Writing sprints tomorrow to get to 5k.

[yutamayo]

Think I might try nanowrimo??

I have no idea where or what I'd start to write but I kinda just wanna do it already or I never will.

[zmwrites]

hit 10k for nano!!

have worked on six projects total, but most of my words have been for my cheesy contemporary romance. it's so cheesy and cliche that i'm almost too embarrassed to share snippets here. but!! i will try to be strong and subject you all to my cheesiness in the upcoming days.

[scarletfish]

foxhole court wrapped: send me an ask with a number 1-100 and I'll drop a drabble/WIP snippet related to that song! 🙏

[shivunin]

Finding time/energy to write has been really rough lately, but I have ordered a Bluetooth keyboard so I can write on my phone during lunch breaks. So hopefully that will help!!

[pharaohbean]

me: quietly (frantically) trying to catch up on my nnwm project

the onions cooking about ten feet away: screeeeeeee

me: SCREEEEEEEE -starts almost bawling my eyes out-

[irlnikeiyomiuri]

spins twirls bounces

[samtheflamingomain]

If I may:

69 (Nice) - write 69 pages in 69 days (Nice)

404 ERROR - allow yourself 404 words that you may completely delete later because they're cringe

Blackjack/21 - write as much as possible, but if you go over 2100 words you get the next day off

ChatGP-eat-my-ass NNWM: Use Chat GPT to send a strongly worded tweet to NaNoWriMo. No limits or penalties for this one

Sunny-Side-Up: cook, but only on one side. Do your best at one thing but don't flip and break your yolk (brain)

Seriously fuck NNWM

Instead of doing NanoWriMo I will be doing something where I try to aim for writing an actual average of 400 words a day for the month of November in memory of Terry Pratchett, who as far as I know never thought telling a computer to write a book for you is a good way to hone your skills as a writer.

[elliotly]

[wizardtisms]

you know when you want to write only a fraction of a scene but you simply Must finish the scene before moving on. but you've written the fraction you wanted to write so your motivation is 0

[phoenixsnapsh]

NaNoWriMo Day 1

I'm using Tumblr to document my progress this year, as well a connect with any other writers to help keep me accountable! My pen name on NNWM is phoenixsnaps - feel free to add me as a buddy!

Current word count: 1211

Current plan: fantasy/adventure. Novelising some of the D&D adventures for one of my regular games.

Goal: Hit 50k words, keep the momentum, get back into the writing swing. Once upon a time I used to spit out thousands of words without thinking; past corporate career burnout and other adulting factors have hit that area of my brain very hard so I'm looking to reclaim it.

Stretch goal: 50k with a reasonable conclusion to the story. I've completed NNWM before (a long time ago) but it was always 50k of much bigger tales that remain incomplete.

Pros:

A large range of characters and plot points already exist to draw from.

It's all homebrew so I don't need to worry about actual D&D / Forgotten Realms lore.

I'm the Party Notetaker so I have a huge pile of notes and context to build on.

We're currently on hiatus on this campaign but due to pick it up again 2024 so it'll be a good creative refresher for these characters.

We're level 11 so some big arcs have already concluded to write about.

Overall, shouldn't need too much planning or research to keep creative momentum going for the NNWM exercise.

Cons:

It's an active campaign and there's some big unknowns in campaign lore that I only have theories on, so I'll need to find a point where I'm comfortable moving away from "party canon" so I don't muddy the current stories.

There may be too many characters.

And too many arcs.

I'm worrying about the audience of the story already when I should be focusing on the writing itself.

I'm liable to get distracted by many things.

[uniformbravo]

bro i havent written shit for nnwm this year & duoligma has the audacity to do this 2 me

[zmwrites]

nano update!

finished today’s writing with over 1000 new words for the first time since mid-last week, which is exciting! still way behind official par (15,122/21,667), but i told myself i wasn’t going to worry about that this year. just gotta keep chipping away a few words at a time.

with Just Jane stalled (will connect next time we’re awake & functional at the same time @akindofmagictoo), i’ve been working on CAMRR WIP (the contemporary romance) and Snowy WIP. i also wrote a few new paragraphs for Open Seas and Dead Man’s Mesa which was a pleasant surprise.

summary: many wips. not so many words. now must sleep.

[vaspider]

Without going too deep into details, and to be clear I only saw this from a distance, last year a group of NANOWRIMO users realized that one of the forum mods was grooming underage site users and pushing them to join a fetish site. They brought this to forum leadership, site leadership, and the FBI in some order. It went several months with no response, then someone from NNWM tipped off the fetish site which purged the relevant data. Eventually the users went public, which finally got a reaction, but still wasn’t handled well by the org

During the fallout to that, large chunks of staff resigned in disgrace or out of disgust. That plus other drama led to local orgs cutting ties en masse, which was reacted to poorly. The site has basically banned under 18s from their social elements now and made other changes, some good, some bad, but they’re under a microscope and no one’s cutting them slack. Sponsors seem to be calling the shots, which would be an improvement over the leadership except that a couple of the sponsors are AI shilling companies and also that’s a bad sign long term

Standard non profit self destructing, just with an extremely awful inciting incident

Jeeeeeesus.