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Why would they need to be prepared? NaNo is on you, you don't get anything for winning other than satisfaction and online badges and stuff from sponsors, such as some promo codes for writing software and getting your initial draft printed. A text that reads "Rabbit." written 50,000 times is enough to win NaNo.
https://gist.github.com/dave1010/a7e7207edef422cf972968b029b... Feel free to fork.
I love NaNoWriMo and have written and won every year since 2019. My only issue is once the month is complete, no one cares about your novel or that you finished it. So when I got laid off earlier in the year I started working on an alternative to NaNo. https://penpinery.com At the moment it's in MVP but it current has: - Author profiles w/ blogging - Publication cataloging + reader reviews - WIP cataloging with word…
Nice concept, for me and millions of others at the mercy of the Amazon algorithm to what we read next I may try a few books here. You are right nobody cares about your novel but the rush from finishing and publishing something even if nobody reads it is pretty satisfying.
Have you tried asking for recommendations from your librarian(s)? On my public library's website there's a form for this, and if I'm ever at a loss for what to read next (I usually go with recommendations from friends, family, and HN threads) I'd either ask this way or in person.
There's also the NPR Book Concierge, BookPage (paid for here by Friends of the Library), and the Libby app, with lists put together by librarians and a option to see similar books (based on keywords? Sometimes the list items don't make much sense, but I have found some good ones this way).
I love NaNoWriMo and have written and won every year since 2019. My only issue is once the month is complete, no one cares about your novel or that you finished it. So when I got laid off earlier in the year I started working on an alternative to NaNo. https://penpinery.com At the moment it's in MVP but it current has: - Author profiles w/ blogging - Publication cataloging + reader reviews - WIP cataloging with word…
you say you're in MVP, so it may be a bit early for this but, it's really surprising to me that the landing page is not geared towards readers trying to discover new authors.
The great thing about authors is they should be reading just as much as they write. So in a sense, we're able to build both sides of the coin by marketing to a single user from the start.
I'm in a small writing club and all four of us are trying it. I successfully finished it two years ago with a series of ten interlocking short stories that (surprise!) tell a complete story as a novel by the end. One thing I notice is that a lot of people use it as a project to just get words out, regardless of quality. They talk about vomit-drafts, and/or just sitting down to write to see where it takes them, to see…
For the record, the point of NaNoWriMo is pure word count, and folks consider December to be "National Novel Editing Month" where you refine the word vomit. Obviously this is not the only approach to writing, and some folks are incompatible with the concept of "just write with abandon" and "sort it all out and refine it in edit". If you want to write and edit at the same time, consider halving your total word count (…
Do they have a policy on AI, I feel like they are not prepared for the coming flood.
The only "win" is personal and if you want to define your win in terms of ML/AI, that's for you to decide and mostly just between you and your keyboard. But there's a lot of neat resources and a different sense of accomplishment/competition/cooperation if you choose to focus on it as a NaNoGenMo project instead of a NaNoWriMo project.
I find myself with 20 mins here, 40 mins there, and half the time gets spent trying to find a decent short story.
Good luck.
Edit: the novel http://files.howtolivewiki.com/MOTHER_OF_HYDROGEN_NOVEL/inde...
I did NaNoWriMo in 2010 and it was a great experience and produced a not very good genre novel about the first sentient AI’s inability to deal with humans and how the human race survived the biotech apocalypse. The “write fast get it done” format liberated me from the need to make sense. Let it rip! Good luck. Edit: the novel http://files.howtolivewiki.com/MOTHER_OF_HYDROGEN_NOVEL/inde...
Do they have a policy on AI, I feel like they are not prepared for the coming flood.
There is it its own "month" game for that: https://nanogenmo.github.io/ The only "win" is personal and if you want to define your win in terms of ML/AI, that's for you to decide and mostly just between you and your keyboard. But there's a lot of neat resources and a different sense of accomplishment/competition/cooperation if you choose to focus on it as a NaNoGenMo project instead of a NaNoWriMo project.
I wanted to keep the anything-goes spirit, so “movie” is defined really loosely. Anyone is free to join me, there’s still time this month!
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why would they need to be prepared? NaNo is on you, you don't get anything for winning other than satisfaction and online badges and stuff from sponsors, such as some promo codes for writing software and getting your initial draft printed. A text that reads "Rabbit." written 50,000 times is enough to win NaNo.
https://gist.github.com/dave1010/a7e7207edef422cf972968b029b... Feel free to fork.