NaNoWriMo?

So, last year, as I was gearing up for NaNoWriMo as an impetus to do the thing, I posted my word counts on various projects. That did not work out so well, as everything went off the rails. I have written very little in the last year, as things got a little crazy around here with health and general life challenges. However, it’s all about honesty and accountability. Right?

In that light, some stuff went down surrounding NaNo last year that I kind of missed in my absence. I’m not sorry, but I am kind of looking for a writing community, whatever it wants to call itself. I liked that part a lot, even when I came nowhere close to the goals I set for myself.

Despite the current controversary surrounding NaNoWriMo, in all of the years I have followed the thing, I have always saw it more as a spirit/idea than an organization. It feels so culturally ingrained for me. I can appreciate that it is becoming an occurrence outside of an organization, because to me it always was. NaNo always was an event that we participated in, within the writing communities, like Inktober.