I’ve been thinking about using NaNoWriMo to finally finish my Indie Microblogging book, even though it’s not a novel. I wonder if we can do something special on Micro.blog for anyone writing in November. 📚
@manton Maybe a separate/temporary emoji-tag for the month? 📝? Keep it permanently in the discover section and encourage people to post daily(?) updates? Perhaps also a pin?
@manton Please do! I'll also be doing a rogue NaNoWriMo (not fiction) and having a community with whom to do it would be awesome :)
@Burk Good luck. I finished NaNoWriMo in 2005 but another year tried and couldn't stick with it, so I know how difficult it is to revisit something like that later.
@manton This sounds like a cool idea. I've been looking to engage more with Micro.blog and I'm currently drafting a novel I began in last year's NaNoWriMo. I plan to use this year's NaNoWriMo to sprint to the finish... of the first draft 😃
@Burk I never do NaNoWriMo (too much like a forced march) but I was reminded yesterday of writing part of the novella that I'm currently posting (in parts) on Medium. I was writing it on a train in Italy — in 2009. And at that point, I thought it was a novel. Only recently I decided it would make a better novella and cut it from 49,000 words to about 21,000 which, I think, did it the world of good.
@cygnoir Great! Sounds like there's enough interest that we should definitely do something, even if it's just to collect NaNoWriMo posts together to make discovery easier. Maybe a special pin to unlock too.
@manton I won’t be able to do NaNoWriMo this year (infants can do that to you. Haha!) but I’ve done it in years past and I think that’s a great idea. In a future year when I’m able to participate I think a discovery section and a pin would be awesome!
