NaNoWriMo is the National Novel Writing Month - a month long writing competition where you aim to finish a novel… in a month. Lol.
The idea is to write 50,000 words from Nov 1st to Nov 30th, between 1600-1700 words a day. There isn’t any prize (other than feeling a sense of accomplishment) and you don’t need to register or anything (though you can register at the official website if you want to get tips, community support etc).
I haven't done one before and had frankly forgotten about it till I saw someone on TikTok mention it. At which point I though, hey, I should mention it on the best (and only) leftist shitposting site.
Currently, my plan is to write a bunch of short stories all set in the same magical/fantasy world (a feudal society transitioning to capitalism) that I’ve been brewing up for a while but never made concrete. Then I plan to polish them up and send them to various writing contests/competitions. Big plans, I know.
But yeah, that’s what I’m gonna be doing. If anyone else is interested, then maybe we can have a daily check in to keep each other on track.
The experience was fine. I was more concerned with getting wordcount over any story elements so it was a lot of writing what immediately came to mind to keep things moving with only a vague narrative outline. In retrospect it was pretty fun. I was a STEMlord at the time however so instead of recognizing any talent or ideas in my story that could be improved on I took the fact I could rush it out as proof that English and literary analysis was phoney baloney nonsense and promptly forgot what I'd written. I've since gotten better.
Nah lol we’ve all been through that phase. I think.