I got the "Locked in Gear" badge for a full week of writing, from ProWritingAid. Here's to more story work! I've got my music going (enjoying this J-rock band I just found through Tiktok called Espirit D'Air), stuffed myself with calories, and I'm here sipping a caffeinated beverage. It's time to dive into this crazy urban fantasy world.

#ProWritingAid #NovNov #NovelNovember #NationalNovelWritingMonth #NaNoWriMo

One Word at a Time: How to Finish Writing a Novel

Bestselling author Traci Hunter Abramson shares four tips she's used to write more than 50 novels over the years.
The post One Word at a Time: How to Finish Writing a Novel appeared first on Writer's Digest.
https://www.writersdigest.com/one-word-at-a-time-how-to-finish-writing-a-novel

#WriteBetterFiction #WritingTechniques #FinishingFirstDraft #NationalNovelWritingMonth #novelwriting

For those who are interested, I've created a community for #NaNoWriMo2 - a new version of the writing competition that has no one from the original organization involved.

The Website for the new competition is: https://nanowrimo2.com/
The new community is: [email protected] (https://feddit.online/c/nanowrimo2)
Tracker App - TrackBear: https://trackbear.app/
TrackBear Leader Board: https://trackbear.app/leaderboards/join?joinCode=48e75747-5a26-42da-865c-9626c490db2f

#writing #writers #nanowrimo #novel #nationalnovelwritingmonth #novelists #writingcompetition #writingcomminity #writingcommunity

RIP 😭

You will be missed.

"The NaNoWriMo organization is shutting down"

#NaNoWriMo #ShutDown #Nonprofit #Writing #Writers #AI #Controversy #NationalNovelWritingMonth

https://www.theverge.com/news/642258/nanowrimo-organization-shutting-down

@bookstodon @writers

NaNoWriMo is Being Discontinued After 25 years

National Novel Writing Month is being discontinued due to financial support and community backlash.
The post NaNoWriMo is Being Discontinued After 25 years first appeared on Good e-Reader.
https://goodereader.com/blog/digital-publishing/nanowrimo-is-being-discontinued-after-25-years

#NaNoWriMo #NationalNovelWritingMonth #shutdown
@indieauthors

Oh wow, the National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) annual challenge for writers that started as a Yahoo! mailing list in 1999 is shutting down.

"NaNoWriMo lost significant community support when it took a stand in favor of the use of artificial intelligence in creative writing. [...] Around the same time, the nonprofit was also lambasted for inconsistent moderation on its all-ages forums, which created an unsafe environment for teenage writers, community members claimed."

https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/01/nanowrimo-shut-down-after-ai-content-moderation-scandals/

#news #technology #TechNews #NaNoWriMo #NationalNovelWritingMonth #writing #AI

I want to put it out there that what #NaNoWriMo did before this past year was a massively good thing.

For the most part, the staff there have been wonderful stewards of literacy and creation.

That said...

https://writingmonth.org/~b4ux1t3

#NationalNovelWritingMonth is dead, long live #WritingMonth!