r/nanowrimo

I'm part of a discord server that's planning on version of nanowrimo but in June. We're going to have tiers of people who declare their word count, 15k, 30k, 50k or 85k and there will be fun server points and small server based prizes, but also sprints and accountability every day.

We're going to do things like boss battle events where submitting words together decreases the hit points on a boss to defeat it, and we have a custom bot that tracks word count and sprinto as well.

We're trying to find a few more people who might want to join in - just to keep motivated and disciplined but also to have people to chat to whilst writing (it's quite a chatty server but there will be specific channels for each tier as well).

I won't drop a link but DM me or comment if interested.

Just curious, does anyone have experience with how to 'bequeath' their writing in a will? I'm thinking of how C.S. Lewis, Roald Dahl, and J.R.R. Tolkien left works that were finished and/or published after their deaths. More effort for their descendants, but also options for film and adaptation rights and earnings. Other famous authors, like Louisa May Alcott, now have their works in the public domain, so I assume their descendants don't currently benefit from her writings.

A published author with a contract(s) would obviously need to be more intentional about doing this legally. But even in a 'last wishes' document, how would you phrase your intentions for what would be done with your projects?

For example:

"Send digital copies to my spouse/children/friend for nostalgia's sake but with no publishing rights"

"Allow spouse/children/friend/publisher to publish as-is and then receive all profits"

"Bequeath to school/nonprofit/etc who would benefit from my research"

Curious to hear how others do this.

Hey guys

As the title suggests, I've created a website where you can map your story out depending on what beat sheet you plan to work off.

I found it really helpful so I can see all my main plots plus my subplots and character arcs and protagonist points that I want to hit throughout my story and see where I think it's missing or lacking.

There is absolutely no AI involved in the website at all and all of your work would be your own.

It does have a 30-day free trial, but I'm struggling where to advertise it for want of a better word to get actual writers to test it because a lot of groups understandably have a no self-promotion role.

If anyone has any ideas or groups that will allow me to put this up so I can get actual writers to give me some honest feedback about how I could better help them, that would be really really appreciate it

I started my new job around the time NaNoWriMo began to collapse and without the support-and-accountability network I’d built up on the site and with less free time, I fell off my writing. The old forums and forum games were one of the biggest things keeping me writing consistently and now that it’s all gone, I just haven’t been able to get back into writing

Inspiration has been hitting hard the past few weeks and I want to keep it going this time. Does anyone know if there’s somewhere like a Discord server or something where they do writing exercises and forum games like on the old NaNo forums? Some of my favorites were Respond-Answer-Ask, Say Something Kind About the Excerpt Above You, Badly Describe What Happened in Your Story Today, etc.