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The unofficial lemmy community for the “National Novel Writing Month” challenge, often shortened to NaNoWriMo. This forum is not officially affiliated with the 501©(3) nonprofit organization of the same name, it is a simply fan community dedicated to discussion of those participating in said nonprofit organizations yearly challenge. This is a community dedicated to sharing discussion, criticism and pep talks related to NaNoWriMo. Learn more about NaNoWriMo from their website here. [https://nanowrimo.org/] Feel free to check out their resources hub as well. [https://nanowrimo.org/nano-resource-hub] If you are able, consider donating to them as well and maybe participating in their community as well. They are a really cool organization! — #### Community Rules: - Please follow literature.cafe’s instance wide rules. - This is not a contest with an official prize, the prize is the satisfaction of having made a finished novel. If you are cheating, you are only cheating yourself. Remember that. - Please, no AI. This is not the community for that. - Please only give criticism when specifically requested — ##### NaNoWriMo Challenge Rules (from their website truncated via wikipedia, thank you wikipedia editors!) > - Writing starts at 12:00: a.m. on November 1 and ends >11:59:59 p.m. on November 30, local time. > - No one is allowed to start early and the challenge finishes >exactly 30 days from that start point. > - Novels must reach a minimum of 50,000 words before the >end of November in order to win. These words can either be >a complete novel of 50,000 words or the first 50,000 words >of a novel to be completed later. >- Planning and extensive notes are permitted, but no >material written before the November 1 start date can go into >the body of the novel. >- Participants’ novels can be on any theme, genre of fiction, >and language. Everything from fanfiction, which uses >trademarked characters, to novels in poem format, and >metafiction is allowed; according to the website’s FAQ, “If >you believe you’re writing a novel, we believe you’re writing a >novel too.” >“Rebelling” is allowed, as NaNoWriMo is considered a “self-challenge”; rebels are allowed to validate and thus receive any prizes from sponsors.

[email protected] is the community, if you plan on participating in the challenge feel free to post over there about it :D

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The rules for behavior are a straight carry over of Mastodon.World’s rules. You can click the link but we’ve reposted them here in brief, as a guideline. We will continue to use the Mastodon.World rules as the master list. Over all, be nice to each other and remember this isn’t a community built around debate. For the rules about formatting your posts, scroll down to number 2.

1. Follow the rules of Mastodon.world, which can be found here.

A. Provide an inclusive and supportive environment. This means if it isn’t rulebreaking and we can’t be supportive to them then we probably shouldn’t engage.

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E. No Harrassment. As an example in relation to Transgender people this includes, deadnaming, misgendering, and promotion of conversion therapy. Similarly Misogyny, Misandry, and Racism are also banned here.

2. Include a community or instance title and description in your post title. - A following example of this would be New Communities - A place to post new communities or instances all over Lemmy for discovery and promotion.

3. Follow the formatting. - The formatting as included below is important for people getting universal links across Lemmy as easily as possible.

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Please include this following format in your post:

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This provides a link that should work across instances, but in some cases it won’t

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Q: Why do I get a 404?

A: At least one user in an instance needs to search for a community before it gets fetched. Searching for the community will bring it into the instance and it will fetch a few of the most recent posts without comments. If a user is subscribed to a community, then all of the future posts and interactions are now in-sync.

Q: When I try to create a post, the circle just spins forever. Why is that?

A: This is a current known issue with large communities. Sometimes it does get posted, but just continues spinning, but sometimes it doesn’t get posted and continues spinning. If it doesn’t actually get posted, the best thing to do is try later. However, only some people seem to be having this problem at the moment.

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