miguel@fedia.io to Writing@beehaw.org · 7 months agoAnyone in this group planning to do writing month?message-squaremessage-square13linkfedilinkarrow-up111arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up111arrow-down1message-squareAnyone in this group planning to do writing month?miguel@fedia.io to Writing@beehaw.org · 7 months agomessage-square13linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squareLime Buzz (fae/she)@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·7 months agoIs there a story/list anywhere? We would like to read up on what they did.
minus-squareUnattributed 𓂃✍︎@feddit.onlinelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·7 months agoThere is a detailed timeline of the scandals on the NaNoWriMo2 website.
minus-squareLime Buzz (fae/she)@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·7 months agoreads oh no… Oh no! Yikes!!!
minus-squaremiguel@fedia.ioOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·7 months agoYeah, 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.
minus-squaremiguel@fedia.ioOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·7 months agoThere 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.
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.