I've created a NaNoWriMo2 Community for all to join: !nanowrimo2@feddit.online
I've also set up a TrackBear Leader Board for anyone that's interested in joining: https://trackbear.app/leaderboards/join?joinCode=48e75747-5a26-42da-865c-9626c490db2f
All the details are in the description for the community.
Sure, we should, we have an idea!
I was just thinking the same thing... It's been years (like over 10) since I did a novel writing month. Horrible that the old group imploded the way it did.
But, there appears to be a new website for Novel Writing month (https://nanowrimo2.com/) -- just no forums or anything, which is probably for the best.
So glad that the new site/group explicitly says no AI.
Yeah - it looks like they want to keep things fairly minimal...nothing too heavy about the whole thing. Personally, I didn't really interact in the community under the original site. I was there mostly, for posting the word count which my friends could see -- and they were all people I knew IRL so we didn't need the forum.
So, yeah, no AI, no extra technology or anything. I was just looking at TrackBear (https://trackbear.app/) to see if I want to use it. Looks like it might be nice.
There were so many things wrong with the NanoWrimo team.
Is there a story/list anywhere? We would like to read up on what they did.
There is a detailed timeline of the scandals on the NaNoWriMo2 website.
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oh no...
Oh no!
Yikes!!!!!
Yeah, right? It was a total fireball at the end. I quit in 2020 when they were just getting uncomfortably grifty but it got so... much... worse.
There was towards the end, I'm not sure who still has one running. I participated (just the tracker) from 2007 until 2020 or so, then I switched off to writingmonth.org once that gained some traction last year.
https://gizmodo.com/longtime-writing-community-nanowrimo-shuts-down-after-ai-drama-2000583619 https://www.euronews.com/culture/2025/04/03/nanowrimo-closes-how-scandals-rocked-a-novel-writing-community etc.
I've been using writingmonth.org, which is excellent, ~~though I do wish they'd add the ability to see how your writing buddies are doing.~~ https://writingmonth.org/~miguel/
/edit - they just added that :D
I'm going to add this to the description in the Community I created... I'm definitely agnostic when it comes to what people are using to track their writing.
A specific community for original shortform and longform writing, stories, worldbuilding, and other stuff of that nature.
Subcommunity of Creative
This community's icon was made by Aaron Schneider, under the CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.