#NaNoWriMo is shutting down due to several years of deteriorating finances and inability to focus on fundraising because of child safety issues with the Young Writers space that had to take priority. Full notes from the Executive Director on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TR6NnjgeIIY @bookstodon

#NaNoWriMo is shutting down due to several years of deteriorating finances and inability to focus on fundraising because of child safety issues with the Young Writers space that they had to take priority. Full notes from the Executive Director on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TR6NnjgeIIY @bookstodon

NaNoWriMo Goes Bankrupt After Embracing AI
https://futurism.com/nanowrimo-closing-embracing-ai

Sad, though not surprised, to see #NaNoWriMo .org shutting down. They helped me in doing a lot of the #writing I've done. While they made some serious missteps in recent years, I'll remember their efforts before that with fondness.

https://www.avclub.com/nanowrimo-to-shut-down-a-year-after-ai-comments

https://www.theverge.com/news/642258/nanowrimo-organization-shutting-down

NaNoWriMo, the nonprofit organization behind the annual writing challenge to finish a novel in November, is shutting down due to financial struggles.

This comes after participation and fundraising decreased in recent years, and controversies over the use of AI tools and child grooming allegations.

The NaNoWriMo site will remain online, but the challenges will no longer be formally hosted.

I think something that really isn't discussed clearly enough is highlighted here: https://flipboard.com/@futurism/futurism-1lupih3cz/-/a-u207kQCtTpO4CFsx3nlHdg%3Aa%3A1737388686-%2F0

Do you know that #writers were the ones donating to #NaNoWriMo ? And that generally speaking it is creatively inclined people who typically want to pay for the goods made by other creatively inclined people. That writers are typically readers who share book recommendations with other writers and have various #Books communities they're involved in.

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Oh wow, the National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) annual challenge for writers that started as a Yahoo! mailing list in 1999 is shutting down.

"NaNoWriMo lost significant community support when it took a stand in favor of the use of artificial intelligence in creative writing. [...] Around the same time, the nonprofit was also lambasted for inconsistent moderation on its all-ages forums, which created an unsafe environment for teenage writers, community members claimed."

https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/01/nanowrimo-shut-down-after-ai-content-moderation-scandals/

The #NaNoWriMo org is dead and GOOD RIDDANCE.

The dead org is trying to spin this as "the community is just too selfish to support us"

but

uh

NO.

The community deserted you because you betrayed them over and over and OVER AGAIN. Not just once ("let's accept scammers as sponsors!") Not just twice ("Oh, a mod was accused of child grooming? let's protect the mod and ban the kids!") but repeatedly.

Details here: https://www.reddit.com/r/HobbyDrama/comments/1ae3038/writing_discords_forums_and_a_decades_worth_of/

Oh well, they fucked around and found out.

> NaNoWriMo Goes Bankrupt After Embracing AI https://futurism.com/nanowrimo-closing-embracing-ai

2 hour deep dive into why Nanowrimo. Just why. And how. "Allegedly" (is that how you spell it?)

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=--bS5h_-ZAk

I'm sad that #NaNoWriMo is shutting down.

I was very vocal about their wholesale embrace of AI (to the extent that I boycotted last year) and think they'd have had a lot more support had they not done that - but I'm still sad about it. I've been taking part since the late 90s.

But that's just the thing. It was born from a community, and just because the company doesn't exist any more, doesn't mean NaNoWriMo won't.

You can't stop us writing. You can never stop us writing.

All signs point to #NaNoWriMo shutting down, apparently according to an email they sent out (I'd closed my account). I don't see anything on their site yet, but they do appear to have shut down their help desk.

First, I want to say that while the last two years from them have been especially disappointing, I'm grateful to NaNoWriMo for being one of the influences that first inspired me to take writing seriously.

Second, I want to remind people that this last November I launched an alternative, #WritingMonth.

https://writingmonth.org

The initial development round was very rushed to get it out by November, but I plan to launch a full second development round starting in May, so we can have a much more complete finished product for this fall.

I also have Writing Month stickers, which I'm currently thinking I'll send out to code contributors who want them, at the end of the summer. I'll send pics when I have a moment.

Has anyone a link to the newsletter from #NaNoWriMo? So far I've just seen partial screenshots and posts talking about it, but apart from a youtube video from an account called "NaNoWriMo Kilby" with 26 followers, I haven't found anything "official"?

Maybe I never got the newsletter because I've never accepted their "new" TOS in 2024?

The (alleged) text of the email/newsletter can be read here: https://www.reddit.com/r/nanowrimo/comments/1jog2tk/comment/mkripel/

Looks like #NaNoWriMo is shutting down.
https://www.reddit.com/r/nanowrimo/comments/1jog2tk/nanowrimo_officially_shutting_down/

The organization behind #NaNoWriMo is officially dead.

As a long-time fan of the event, I couldn't be happier.

Problems came up, and instead of addressing them, there was assorted pointing of fingers and a turning away of all who wanted to help.

The acting executive director burned all remaining good-will to the ground. (She even took a strange pro-GenAI stance for absolutely no reason.) Of course, her last message to the community was barbed and basically blamed the community for shuttering NaNoWriMo.

Over the past year or so there have been a lot of new writer communities pop up. There are plenty of places for writers to network and challenge each other.

@Edent Revenge of the Mutant Algorithms. 4. The Guerilla Information team.

A story of retaliation against the overzealous surveillance state we live in today, where all politicians and policemen are subject to round-the-clock, in-your-face surveillance whose data are broadcast freely to everyone thanks to the efforts of a super-active data freedom movement.

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#NaNoWriMo #RevengeOfTheMutantAlgorithms #SciFi #WritingMonth #books #book @bookstodon #scifi #scifireading #reading #fiction

[GB10ans] L'année 2021

Une autre année chargée ! Le tome V du blog, le roman « Une Auberge dans la tempête » écrit en direct pendant le #NaNoWriMo, la BD Superflu publiée, et bien sûr : mes débuts d'auteur professionnel à 100 % !

Rétrospective 2021 : https://10ans.grisebouille.net/#2021
Le livre best of : https://editions.ptilouk.net/gb10ans
Soutien : https://ptilouk.net/#soutien