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.

  • ssjmarx [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Yes! I've been taking about this for a hot minute, I've got an outline that I haven't put much work into yet that I'm gonna try to crash through this month.

    I've posted about it here before, it's a story that's kinda like Master and Commander with catgirls and marxism.