I log in using Facebook and always have. I could not log in all of April. I wasn't doing Camp NaNo this year, but it still would have been nice to log in and get all of my progress data (word counts) and other information I had put there copied over and moved on to somewhere for myself. Is there a fix for this?

Eta this is the error I get when trying to use Facebook "App not active: This app is not accessible right now and the app developer is aware of the issue. You will be able to log in when the app is reactivated."

Also the forums seem crazy-unintuitive and I hate trying to navigate them.
Also I don't know how to find a regional discord. Although I'm not picky about what Discord I join.
Either way, I really want a writing buddy, and I don't know where to begin.

Just for fun my partner and I wanted to do a 50k challenge for May, having something to kind of "compete" in helps fuel my motivation for writing. I was just wondering if anyone might be interested in joining it? We set up a little group and were going to do it through discord

Our weekly discussion thread to discuss all things to do with writing! You can get help with ironing out a plot hole or two, ask for a prompt to get the juices flowing as well as talking about how your Nanowrimo project is looking.

No self promotion please and please also keep your tone civil. Moreover, we are open to suggestions via modmail as to what you want to see in the sub.

Tell us about your project here!

short story short I did NaNoWriMo back in 22 and I ended up completing it and I got the code for Scrivener code but at the time I could not afford it but now I can and sadly I cant find the code it prob wouldn't work anyway and I really wanna claim it but I have no idea what to do

any advice would be great

I reaaaally want the scrivener deal, but I don’t see that my project actually was in camp nanowrimo. I remember joining the camp, but not what I did.

Ive been trying to figure out the plot of my story now that I have the characters and world but the advice I've been seeing on the first act of a story has been mixed at best. The advice I've seen has ranged wildly, some people say to start only in medias res or crapping on prologue's or a million different things to balance only for the advice to vanish at the inciting incident.

For my story I want to introduce the protagonists and the fantasy world off the bat. Does anyone here have any advice or templates for that?

hi! if anyone has any half off scrivener codes that are unused, could you send it my way? i've been trying to get back into writing and i think it would be very helpful! thanks!!

My husband and I have a writing channel on youtube. We recently found a super helpful writing tip on TikTok and wanted to spread the word! There's an easy way to hugely improve the flow of your narration. Check out our video to learn more! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4gTwCrtjB4

I am creating a police network of different units, which includes the native reserves police unit but am concerned of cultural appropriation in some way.

The police network came from a country I made up known as Stalaxian which is magic and technology based.

The police network handles both magical and normal crimes especially that of Black Magic cases and cases known as Reverse Aging Attacks where the victim physically gets turned into kidlings (children) but dont have a name yet for the natives.

Also does anyone got tips of sorting my plans into scriveners, its all a mess.

Our weekly discussion thread to discuss all things to do with writing! You can get help with ironing out a plot hole or two, ask for a prompt to get the juices flowing as well as talking about how your Nanowrimo project is looking.

No self promotion please and please also keep your tone civil. Moreover, we are open to suggestions via modmail as to what you want to see in the sub.

Tell us about your project here!

I have to do a school assignment about a social gathering in a fictional setting. I have the basic ingredients of an orc princess, her human bodyguard and a ballroom and maybe something about dragons. Does anyone have any ideas to help me cook with this? I'm all ears.

I have finished coming up with my setting and characters, the trouble I'm having is that I have multiple possible paths it could go down and any time I try to start a short summary of the story I freeze up. I get real nervous and start feeling sick but I dont know what to do, does anyone have any advice on getting the options out on paper and knowing to choose which one is right?

I actually have never participated in nanowrimo, but this sub has been popping up on my feed and I’ve been loosely following what’s going on.

I spotted this job listing and thought you all might find it interesting.

I really admire and appreciate all of you for fighting back and doing the right thing. It’s super inspiring!

I been following nanowrimo tips for so long, like limiting my characters and writing without any plots, so decided to stop myself and also decided to do short stories surrounding the six units of my fictional emergency services network (medical/human rescue, pet rescue (3), law enforcement, security, ): Storms of Life Emergency Network. I'm actually enjoying the process now

I thought I read on here at one point the Young Writers Program was being discontinued, but it is still up. I work at a library, and we decided to do a camp nano kit months ago because neither I or the librarian were super clued into the community. The only time I ever tracked my words on the actual site was the get the discount for scrivener years and years ago, and one I hit my goal I moved somewhere else. Because of how our events are planned we can't change the name of the kit, so I am going to put a disclaimer in the booklet I am making for the kit. I know of other tracker sites that will be safe, but I have fear these teens are still going to sign up for the Young Writers program anyway

Edit: I am going to take the issue to the librarian and propose changing the name to Budding Writers Campout Kit since the kit is marketed for camp and say it's for writers who need that extra push to hunker down and find a place to campout to write the novel they've been thinking about.

I say this as someone who considered ignoring the allegations last Nov. Not necessarily that they didn't happen, but simply disassociating and carrying on with my social activities and my project. I regret this because I read the summary and am SHOCKED to find out this is a much much bigger problem of gross incompetence on the part of the organization and not just a single oversight and now I want nothing to do with them.

But the timing of the release of the initial leak feels deliberate in hindsight as if they were banking on that reaction. Many of us found out on like 11/14/23 when we were like 25K words in, been showing up to events, and had committed to finishing. So it was a natural reaction to say "does this controversy have anything to do with my project/region/discord?"

"No? Okay then." puts head down and continues to write some creeper in a different time zone isn't going to steal away my only me-time as a busy new Mom. Grumble grumble. Yeah that was me. Don't be like me.

Walk away and let it die off already.

.... EDIT for clarity: the leak I refer to is the open discussion via the website FAQ about what happened with Moderator X. I feel the timing of said leak was deliberate as it was long after these things had initially occurred but was just at the right time as others have said when there's more visibility on the website and people are knee deep in their projects and therefore less likely to boycott or walk away.

Those of us who are aware of all of the ongoing issues with nanowrimo understand where I'm coming from. And that's pretty much what the issue is: The More You Know essentially. The less you know it seems the more inclined you are to forgive them or convince yourself it's not a big deal.

I know for a fact especially within the agreement that it was discussed that MLs aren't allowed to communicate with each other. For me this all by itself is enough to make me walk away. It has been a thing I know in the past for nanowrimo to create rules for their MLs where they're essentially not allowed to communicate openly with users about a variety of things which always made me uncomfortable.

I considered my MLs my friends and at the same time they weren't allowed to talk to me about things going on behind the scenes they weren't allowed to talk to me about the future of nanowrimo events during and post COVID.

It appears to me that nanowrimo has had this weird legacy of secrecy and if you know anything about abuse dynamics that's exactly the kind of environment that allows these abuses to thrive unchecked.

I cannot in good faith continue to support an organization that operates that way.

An Invitation

Rogue Writers (formerly Rogue Valley Wrimos) is hosting an event to remember the good times and lament the ending of the NaNoWriMo many of us knew. 

Many of us grew up, grew older, or simply grew wiser alongside NaNo. It’s impossible to ignore the effects it had on all of us as communities and, importantly, as individuals. This event seeks to honor the time participants spent building communities, many that we as a group see coming to, if not an end, a significant transition point. 

Public Offerings (Rogue Writers membership NOT required):

When? On the weekend of April 6th and 7th.
We are offering three sessions, each with identical offerings.

Where? Mostly on Discord. There will also be Google Meet options, streamed to YouTube.

Discord Link: https://discord.gg/tj8pG5w2

Event Schedule

All activities are optional for you to pick and choose, and you may join or leave at any time.

There will be three sessions to cover as many time zones as possible. We don’t know how many people will attend, so we can’t predict each session’s duration. We’ve reserved 4 hour blocks for each session, but they may run much shorter.

• Session 1 : April 6th,10am Pacific/18.00 (BST)
• Session 2 : April 6th, 5pm Pacific/April 7th, 01.00 (BST)
• Session 3 : April 6th, 11pm Pacific/April 7th, 07.00 (BST)

Activities during each session:

1. Secular/Interfaith Farewell Ritual. Versions for individual use will be provided. You'll need to have on hand a piece of paper, a pen or pencil, and a garbage can/bag.
2. Farewell Statements and Circle Sharing. People are invited to share their memories, thoughts, and feelings about NaNoWriMo. A fairly free-flowing activity.
3. Q&A discussion/brainstorming for how to encourage/develop individual writers’ groups moving forward.
4. Play Time. Writing Games and Jackbox Games to emotionally decompress and bond over laughter!

We encourage all group leaders to also offer components privately for your members. Not everyone feels comfortable with participating publicly.

Yours in Community,
The Rogue Writers Farewell Event Team
Jenai/Janukanu, Sequoia Grimm, Eitan, karalianne, Cerys, DaughterofSin, and NewMexicoKid

(This announcement is also available at https://roguewriters.net/rogues-nano-farewell/ )

Thank you.

Whatever Camp Nano is, I want to participate, and I'm looking at some Discord server groups announcing here, but I don't understand what Camp Nano actually is - particularly in the context of groups that plan to run it this summer. Is it like November, but in June? Where we write 50,000 words and encourage each other? Or is it about preparing for NaNoWriMo by planning and outlining and researching?

50k words would get me through Act 2 of my novel and would be really perfect for me, if that's what it is.

If this is too basic I apologize, would appreciate

Is anyone planning for a website and stickers like old school nanowrimo? Or is it just like discord groups? Just wondering how elaborate people are gonna get?

Hello!

Do you enjoy writing? What about talking with other writers? Are you looking for someone to read through your work, help out where they can? How about participate in world building exercises and character building prompts?

Well, I might have just the place for you.

Consider joining The Writing Desk. It's an 18+ writing discord server that will hopefully help you and others find people to cheer them on while working towards your goals.

Whether you write fanfiction, historical romance, medieval fantasy, nonfiction works, or academic papers you should be able to find your place here.

The server itself has sort of a dark academia aesthetic. We have four 'dorms' that might have something to do with points later on. They are:

• Gargoyle • Harpy • Unicorn • Wyvern

Some things included in the server are things like:

• Sprinting (both shorter and longer ones) • NSFW channel that is OPT-IN ONLY • A place for resources • Some non-writing channels for fun 🙂

There might be some events at times! Though you don't have to participate in those.

https://discord.gg/rcPbUegH

I don't know if this is allowed, but I made these word count and time trackers for myself and decided to make them available for others. They're paid, but it's a one time fee.

They both allow you to track both word count and writing time. You can set any custom start date, doesn't have to be January. The sheet will adjust for leap years. There are also NaNoWriMo-style graphs and running metrics like your cumulative word counts. Also has basic stats like your best writing day and your best consecutive writing streak. Both sheets allow you to mark days to skip, which then won't count against your writing streak.

This one allows you to track for one month and up to 4 projects.

https://www.etsy.com/listing/1693687232/custom-1-month-writing-tracker-word?click_key=3b0f44d33c02f851e003196aa20323323901b8ad%3A1693687232&click_sum=3e9e15ba&ref=shop_home_active_1

This one allows you to track for 12 months and up to 61 projects. It allows more granular project-level time tracking too. It also has more graph options.

https://www.etsy.com/listing/1692427968/12-month-writing-tracker-word-count?click_key=92b7865c3477aae96adf1e727c6b482196fee09d%3A1692427968&click_sum=ed0ffd46&ref=shop_home_active_2

Hope this helps someone.

Our weekly discussion thread to discuss all things to do with writing! You can get help with ironing out a plot hole or two, ask for a prompt to get the juices flowing as well as talking about how your Nanowrimo project is looking.

No self promotion please and please also keep your tone civil. Moreover, we are open to suggestions via modmail as to what you want to see in the sub.

Tell us about your project here!

This was meant to be simple, then Scope-Creep got me. Currently it's set for 5 weeks, to match up with the RR Writathon, but it should- if I've got my formulas right- scale down to four perfectly well, as long as you manually edit the graph ranges.

I nicked the original from here but I've edited it a lot over the past day.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ZQ2_S3bqYBmvLe7n7H4K9GjmjELfLqqSW8f-0PDvehk/edit#gid=343583462

Enjoy. Feedback about which formulas I've messed up would be appreciated, I am somewhat maths-dyslexic.

And come join the RoyalRoad Writathon, we have a forum and everything!

A friend and I have thought about doing our own challenge similar to naniwrimo in May and we thought it might be fun to find friends who wanted to join? We can do sprints together, critique each other as needed, and just kind of get to know each other?

I saw a lot of revolt and well deserved critiques regarding the new ML-Agreement sent to you by Kilby and I remember when she ripped every ML of their status. I haven't met anybody who is ready to sign the new Agreement (which I find justified). However I am wondering if there is anybody who wants to be an ML now. I am asking because yesterday was the deadline.

Do you guys know about any regions who want to become "official NaNoWriMo regions" again?

I’m going to attempt to write 30k in April of what I started in NaNo last year (got to 15k and then got the ‘vid for the first time ever).

If anyone wants to casually share word counts throughout the month on a Reddit chat I’m down. The nano word count really kept me motivated and now.. well. Yeah.

I know a lot of people are on discord, but I’m trying not to download more social medias because I’m distracted enough lol.

Good luck to anyone doing a challenge this month!