@sergio_101

There used to be a thing called National Novel Writing Month, which was a non-profit which ran an event every November encouraging people to write a novel in a month. 50,000 words, one month. This is not _that_ difficult to achieve, mind you; it's 1650 words a day, roughly. I, personally, can write that many words in 20 minutes or so, but that's a pure function of my writing speed and has nothing to do with the work of "actually thinking about what story you want to tell".

Last year, the organization that ran NaNoWriMo, which had been doing so for over two decades, self-destructed in a few months. It was a sad thing, truly. It was a real force for good in the world, in my opinion. The volunteers and rank and file that made it special did not deserve to be put into the line of fire when their leadership decided to go on a full-on AI bootlicking rampage, complete with comparing AI skepticism to _ableism_.

So now, some folks who really liked the spirit of NanoWriMo have started using the tag #WritingMonth as a stand-in for the old event. One such individual, the inimitable @amin, decided to be the change they wanted to see, and made https://writingmonth.org, which has a dedicated core team of contributors (myself included) expanding and extending the site to try to bottle some of the lightning that NaNoWriMo tapped into for all those years.

The task is simple: Pick a goal, a number of words, chapters, blog posts, scenes in a play, _whatever_ that you want to write in a month, and then _do it_.

Here's my progress: https://writingmonth.org/~b4ux1t3/

:) Feel free to add me as a buddy if you sign up.