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Hello fellow writers!

Recently, I have only written scientific papers/thesis for my master's and some love poetry for my boyfriend's eyes only. But I want to get back into writing fiction, perhaps start with short stories but ultimately I want to be able to write good multiple chapters stories again.

I find 30 days challenges to be very useful for me to get back into the habit and explore my style. I've done some for my digital paintings, and I wonder if you know of any good challenges out there for writers?

Also, general advices are very welcomed!

Thank you!

If the competition were to be re-hosted with more AI and plagiarism preventions, would you be open to participating?

In my mystery, the murderer is transporting a corpse in a car/van. I need:

• the body to not be squished into a box or luggage case, so it has to be a long box/bag

• it'll be a van with the back seats pushed down into the van to make space. Ideally the person riding next to murderer in the passenger seat cannot look back and see it OR can see it but thinks it is a common box

• the box/luggage case/bag has to also be a not-abnormal thing. It should be something that if he were stopped by a police officer/asked by the passenger, he could just say "Oh I'm just transporting X item in its packaging"

So I wanted ideas for X. Is there any typically large things that vans are used to move? It also doesn't have to be a van but could be a pickup truck, SUV, etc. I just needed ideas.

Thanks!

Alright, a main purpose for this sub is accountability to get the stories out of our heads. Anyone with set writing goals they need motivation to complete?

For me, my goals this week are knocking out 1 substack article, outlining characters for a sci fi short story, and Tarot based Journaling.

The June Summer Fun Goal!

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If it’s allowed, I’d like to recommend Jessica Brody’s Page One to Done. She talks about writing a fast draft (rough draft finished quickly). Many of the concepts overlap with NaNoWriMo. The book was just released and Brody is author of Save the Cat Writes a Novel (but this book has very little to do with it.) I think many members of this subreddit would get something out of it.

https://www.amazon.com/Page-One-Done-Finish-Drafting-ebook/dp/B0FN3F3P72

Hello writers, it's the end of May (if you can believe that).

How did it go for you? Projects worked on (or even finished), words written, plots schemed, outlines hammered out? However you'd like to share and quantify your progress in May.

This might be a terrible idea, but if you'd like to watch me struggle through a first draft in real time, here's the Google docs link

https://docs.google.com/document/d/130pV8rTvc9EQMCeOTUNubgqp40ayVOyADEPs2E7NXrY/edit?usp=drivesdk

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.

Hi everyone! I've heard about nanowrimo for quite some time, and at some random evening decided to start it. I've done some journaling before, and it is the most of the writing experience that I had.

The first day, i.e. yesterday (2026-05-03) was quite hard, but I did it, but now I am at 900 words, and I'm stuck. Nothing is in my mind. It feels like I told everything I knew.

I've quickly skimmed over nanowrimo2 website and it mentioned some resources pointing to the web archive. The links don't work. The youtube videos I keep noticing are a bit more advanced for me.

It seems to me like I'm over fixating over word count. Should I not? I feel like If I don't set a goal of sorts, then I would abandon the whole thing

Anyways, how do you all keep writing?

===EDIT===

I think my question now is not "how do you all keep writing", but more about where how do you convert your life's experience to words? My current writing is a set of short (a couple of paragraphs) situations. And as I write like 3-4 paragraphs, I don't know "how my characters would react" and "is the event plausible in the world setting". I think it is more of a problem of world building. Honestly I feel fairly motivated, and when I'm not I'm still writing, but thanks for all of the advice on how to stay motivated

Hey all, so I'm thinking about starting a new server after a helpful member suggested it, and it would be based on the monthly Trackboard leaderboards I've been doing (and plan on continuing to do until the heat death of the universe.) It would be really helpful to be able to discuss writing and goals with the other members. So... thoughts? Who thinks this is a good plan? What would you like to see in it?

Join us for a fun month of writing and reaching our goals together. Here’s the direct join link: https://trackbear.app/leaderboards/join?joinCode=9261ea18-37f5-48f4-9884-19566b3eee30

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Please note: the goals for this leaderboard need to be at least 3,000 words, 3 chapters, or 50 pages of editing. I got some real feedback about this last month, so I’m going to have to set this new participation rule.

Last month was a very productive month with lots of people reaching their goals, so let’s do it again! 😊

Hello once again, whether it be spring or fall in your hemisphere. The birds outside my window are having quiet the party, which makes an interesting writing soundtrack.

How was your writing this month? Did you meet your goals (if you had any)? Projects worked on, words written, whatever metric or measure you want to use.

Hi there. I was participating in 2016 nanowrimo. It was peak experience for me. The forums, the writing, the fun, the community. I loved it. Today I looked at next nanowrimo plans and I found out its dead from last year? What a shame! What is the current status? Is there some community driven version? Which alternative did most previous members migrate to?

Hey I was thinking about this last night and talking about it with someone who actually runs a platform with an overlap I was asking if he had space to create something new, a new home for writers if you like, but better. Somewhere for people to showcase and participate.
Think there's a gap for it? I wouldnt want him to make the effort and host it and then it collapses.
I was thinking we would need all the features that NaNo had but I wonder if there would be a value in creating something where writers can showcase their work, a good solid profile, some sort of breadth and width which is far more broad and all year round, but with a novel month, a revision month and something else.
I need other writers to think about this with me, bring suggestions and talk about what is vital and what is desirable so I can give this guy all he needs to build it. He's a writer so I think he's keen but he never did NaNo.
Ideas? Names? Names of the platform or the event? Or both?
What do you want? And what do you need?
I'd like to see all my favourite rescources in one place. A bit of NaNo, a bit of Substack, a bit of Scrivener, a bit of Goodreads, more than that though. Maybe a touch of FB style. Maybe some character resources like cards, story arc maps.

Hey all, so it's the 13th of April and essentially halfway through the month. How are your monthly goals going? :) I'm not sure if I'm going to make the 30,000 goal or not, but at least my writing has picked up again!! I just posted Chapter 13 of my project, a Jane Austen fic based on Sanditon. And what about YOU?

Some things I'm wondering:

- Ever lose work because you overwrote something you wanted to keep?

- How do you handle drafts when working with an editor?

I'm on the hunt for the Harry Potter word crawl from back in the good old days. With all of the NaNo related websites shut down, I cannot locate any of the crawls in my searches. Do any of you lovely folks happen to have that massive Harry Potter word crawl that you can share with me?? Thank you so much!!

Join us for a fun month of writing together and reaching our goals. 😊

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Hi maybe a dumb question but I'm new here - will there be a writing challenge for April?

I'm looking for a writing challenge this month. Thanks!