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 What is Nanowrimo? Nanowrimo is an annual event where people around the world sign up to write 50,000 words for a creative project of their choice in the month of November. What's with the fire and the smell of brimstone? There's a company that maintains a dedicated Nanowrimo website, and that company has been very bad in the last year. I don't know all the details, but we're talking abuse allegations and a full meltdown that included firing all of the local volunteers, and the organisation is now completely radioactive. So why still do it? Nanowrimo the activity really has nothing to do with Nanowrimo the organisation. Challenging yourself to write 50,000 words in the month of November is still a really great way to stop procrastinating and actually get something done. You could start and finish a completely new project, or you could use it to work on an existing writing project that has lots of good ideas but not so lots of actual words. If you are also doing Nanowrimo this year, let us know what you are writing! Posting about it really helps to create accountability, and a lot of goons who posted their projects to the thread last year managed to do the full 50,000 words, which is always so impressive! This year, I am writing a kind of high fantasy/romcom hybrid about a fairytale prince who decides he wants to marry the dragon. This is not a good idea on his part, but I think it's going to be pretty funny! What are you guys writing this year?
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Oct 30, 2024 16:35
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I was completely unaware of the currently burning garbage fire. I came looking for this thread to share my success story of writing 3000 words on day 1, but uhhhhhh. I guess I'll still do it? I was knocked out last year by a detached retina so hopefully nothing horrible like that happens this time. I'm writing about Witches in the Wild West and a very confused lawman trying to make sense of the mayhem.
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Nov 2, 2024 12:04
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Quote posted:I was completely unaware of the currently burning garbage fire. I came looking for this thread to share my success story of writing 3000 words on day 1, but uhhhhhh. I only learned of it while preparing for nanowrimo this year. It's extremely weird, but I don't see any reason why it should stop us from doing our 50,000!
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Nov 2, 2024 22:09
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3000 yesterday and 3236 today. If I can crank out another 3k tomorrow I'll be almost 1/5 of the way done on day 3. I'm really enjoying writing a Western -- I know just enough to fake it and I'll research when I'm done to give it more authenticity.
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Nov 3, 2024 02:22
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1800 Saturday and another 1800 today. Today was tough. Found myself in a scene with no forward momentum so had to bail and change gears.
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Nov 5, 2024 01:15
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Just passed 10,000, so I'm still staying on track. The tone of what I've written so far is very weird, so this will probably need a lot of editing later, but that's a problem for December me!
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Nov 6, 2024 23:15
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Been doing this. Work has been a bitch but I'll cross 25k tonight so I'm still on track. It's a shame about all the drama and AI promotion the company is doing, but I hit my seventh consecutive completion last year and I don't want to miss an 8th. Something about the yearly 50k November deadline gets me motivated to write when all the other motivational tricks fail. I'm getting a lot of material that feels actually usable out of this one, so it's a good exercise. Maybe I really will finish my book before I'm 40.
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Nov 14, 2024 12:36
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Still on track, though I have not been writing every day. Some really rotten personal life things have cropped up in an attempt to derail me. However, when I do write I'm clearing 3,000 words or more a day. So despite missing roughly 5 days, I'm still on track to hit 25k tomorrow which is right on schedule. I never really pictured myself as a horror writer, but I'm finding that the horror scene bits are the ones that come most easily to me. Maybe I'm just a real sick gently caress at heart.
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Nov 14, 2024 19:33
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Hit the midway mark and going strong. Starting to feel like I can land this plane. 27,785 as of today and I still have two 25 minute blocks to go. That's typically another 1000 words if I'm cooking. 500 if they're coming hard. Edit: I think the chapter I wrote today might be the best stretch of fiction I've ever written. 4,463 words today. Quote fucked around with this message at 22:09 on Nov 16, 2024 |
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Nov 16, 2024 20:01
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Already at 42000 words for Generic 50k Word Challenge. Been pretty easy this year, for some reason. I think it's because I decided to switch to first person present for a new project. I'm just leaning fully into inner monologue fluff, and it's pretty fun, actually! In total I think I'm about 100k words of first draft into that project, and nothing but pantsing (where I'm usually an outliner).
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Nov 17, 2024 16:52
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Ovenmaster posted:Already at 42000 words for Generic 50k Word Challenge. Whoa! Nice work. What genre are you working in?
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Nov 17, 2024 23:25
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Contemporary drama, I guess? Just this coming-of-age story. But it's the perspective, not the genre, that's been the success. Even though you can probably just translate everything to third person, writing in that immediate voice helps me a lot.
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Nov 18, 2024 00:29
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Just crossed the 40k mark. Writing is tougher on work days, but I'm managing at least 1k those days. I'm off Thursday, Friday, and Saturday next week so I think I'm safe to make it over the finish line.
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Nov 23, 2024 16:38
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Hello all! As I know many of you probably don’t frequent the Thunderdome regularly, I thought I’d call out that this week’s prompt is all about novel blurbs. Leng and I will be critiquing and judging entries, and hope to foster a collaborative, low-stakes environment through the week to share and critique each other’s blurbs — whether they’re for books you’ve already written, or books you’re still in the process of planning. Blurbs are due for judgment next Sunday at midnight PST. Hope to see some of you in there! rohan fucked around with this message at 22:37 on Nov 27, 2024 |
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Nov 27, 2024 22:30
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Hey maybe I will. 600 words away from 50k with two days to spare. Final showdown will definitely take me past the goal. Best part is I like what I've written!
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Nov 28, 2024 17:17
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Challenge complete. 50,572 right now. Book is not done, but everything's in place for the final confrontation. I will finally be able to say I've finished writing a book.
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Nov 29, 2024 14:59
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rohan posted:Hello all! Oh that is a really cool theme! My past nanowrimo projects all have terrible placeholder blurbs. But I am going to take a short break from writing now, because BOOM, 50,000 words! Nanowrimo completed! I still have a few sections of my outline left to write, but man does it feel good to have done my 50,000.
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Nov 29, 2024 21:32
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Quote posted:Challenge complete. 50,572 right now. Book is not done, but everything's in place for the final confrontation. I will finally be able to say I've finished writing a book. And congratulations! I also finished my first book doing nanowrimo, and it's always great to see success stories like this!
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Nov 29, 2024 21:33
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I fizzled out pretty hard at the end, but fortunately I had built up enough of a lead that I still completed this. That makes 8! I even actually like some of my writing this time! 2025 could be the year I finally finish this thing...
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Dec 3, 2024 14:36
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I just finished the book I started in November. Turned out to be 80k words. I can't believe I finished.
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Jan 31, 2025 01:23
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Is there a new thread for 2025? I can't find it.
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Nov 4, 2025 16:38
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I don't think so! I would make a thread, but I have some stuff going on, so I'm not doing nanowrimo this year. But I would invite you or anyone else who is doing nanowrimo to start a thread!
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Nov 4, 2025 19:57
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I'm doing it, though I have moved to Various Discords for accountabilibuddies since there isn't a real Nanowrimo anymore. I also somehow became confused about whether this is #9 or #10 for me somewhere along the way, and I don't remember what is real anymore. It's going okay (strong weekend start, many struggles but word count made on Monday and Tuesday) but the version of me that thought the book might be finished this year was an extremely foolish fool even by the most degraded standards of foolery.
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Nov 5, 2025 13:00
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Lol nevermind. I see that it was disbanded due to some controversies.
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Nov 7, 2025 20:26
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Doesn't mean you can't write a novel in November, but yeah, no official tracker website or writing pals. (If you want to continue in the tradition of the original NaNoWriMo sponsors, then use AI, why not, doesn't mean poo poo to us, oh and also here's our new AI sponsor.)
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