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Dianne
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she/her - professional grudge holder. SFF writer. cosplayer of old. Clarion 2019

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RIP to the NaNoWriMo website
A screenshot of the NaNoWriMo website except the website leads to an All Access Disabled error message instead
May 27, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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Some of my other favorite designs: www.redbubble.com/people/Audac...
a holographic sticker with the word "FRAGILE" in all caps along the left side and then "like a bomb" in a shakier handwritten font along the bottom and the image of a bomb at a 45-degree angle as if falling from the sky and about to hit the text A spiral notebook, black, with white text that reads: "Words are hard ...and stuff" a model wearing a tank top that reads: "Woman want great tits and basic human rights" A coffee mug with a red and white design that mimics a classic name tag that reads: "Hello my name is Fragile. Please handle with care"
April 11, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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Something new in my Redbubble shop: www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/1698...
Image of a tote bag with a white background. Each line of text is a different color of the rainbow and it reads "I want to live in a society not an economy," with the word society underlined for emphasis
April 11, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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Kilby Blades, interim executive director of #NaNoWriMo officially announces she's shuttering the nonprofit organization.

This does not appear to be an early April fools joke.
To Our NaNoWriMo Community: We come to you today with sad news. After six years of struggling to sustain itself financially, NaNoWriMo (the nonprofit) will begin the process of shutting down. Explaining how we got here is both simple and complex. The funding woes that have threatened so many nonprofits in recent years are an unextraordinary trend. Many beloved organizations announced their closure last year. Many more are fighting for their lives. Media coverage of financial crisis within the sector—especially among arts nonprofits—has been widespread. Yet, there are ways in which NaNoWriMo is extraordinary—and reasons why we had hoped we could buck that trend. The sheer size of our community, its global reach and its longevity, held at impressive levels, even during a tumultuous year. There is no shortage of writers who want to participate in NaNoWriMo. Yet, building a community and being able to sustain it are two different matters. 2024 was a revelatory year. In order to fully understand how we reached this decision, and why we view it as the only alternative, we encourage you to watch this video about the State of NaNoWriMo (video linked in next tweet). The video also contains some important acknowledgments and information about the logistics of our next steps. Most importantly, the video shares real data and information that the organization has not discussed previously. The plot is thicker than you might think. Screen shot of the first slide of a Power Point presentation that says "State of NaNoWriMo - An Update to Our Community - March 2025" We recognize that the closure of NaNoWriMo represents a huge loss to the writing community, and that grief over this outcome will be exacerbated by the challenges of the past sixteen months. This is not the ending that anybody wanted or planned. And—believe us—if we could hit the delete button and rewrite this last chapter, we would. But we do have hope for the epilogue. What’s next for NaNoWriMo, the indebted nonprofit, is much different from what's next for actual Wrimos. We hold no belief that people will stop writing 50,000 words in November (and April, and July) or stop seeking support for the journey they’re on. Many alternatives to NaNoWriMo popped up this year, and people did find each other. In so many ways, it’s easier than it was when NaNoWriMo began in 1999 to find your writing tribe online. Our greatest hope at this moment is that you do two things: support arts nonprofits you love (they really, truly need you) and keep writing words. Your stories matter. Thank you for all you have done for the organization, and especially for each other, over all these years. Sincerely, The NaNoWriMo Team A Few Additional Notes We anticipate that some people might want to log on and capture information that is meaningful to them, like their lifetime word count or stats from previous seasons or challenges. We also anticipate that some folks on the Young Writers Program website may not have backed up work that they wrote directly into our system, and may wish to do so at this time. If there is something you feel you need to retrieve, you are welcome to try. However, our site tends to crash a lot when overrun with too much traffic (chronic technology underinvestment is mentioned in the video). We apologize for any inconvenience if the site gets crashy. If you are a recurring donor, thank you for your ongoing support of the organization (truly). We have cancelled all recurring donations on our end in order to ensure that you will not be charged as we transition into our next phase. If you want anything from the NaNoWriMo store, please don't delay. We will shut that down soon as well. Finally, we have observed that, at times of change, many members of our community are in want of spaces to process these new developments, and that, historically, we have hosted many all-community online spaces. Unfortunately, we have very limited resources to reply individually to comments or to moderate our social spaces at this time. We will do our best but make no guarantees.
April 1, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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Redbubble is running a Valentine's/Anti-Valentine's sale. Come buy a t-shirt or a sticker or something from me: www.redbubble.com/people/Audac...
Two models wearing the same t-shirt which reads "Women want GREAT TITS and basic human RIGHTS"
February 6, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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New sticker in my redbubble shop tonight: www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/1682...
A rectangular sticker with an image of a cartoon bomb falling and the caption: Fragile like a bomb
January 30, 2025 at 5:16 AM
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It just feels like we're doing this but unironically all the time now
A penguin answering emergency services phone and the dialogue reads: "Nine one one what is your emergency? What do you mean you're being murdered? That's illegal. People can't do that."
January 29, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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Getting my health insurance handled here at the last minute. I pay for a bronze plan through the ACA and I pay about $400/month for the privilege. Here's what they expect some simple medical care would cost me above that. $2700 if I break a bone next year, if it's a simple fracture.
Typical cost for a healthy pregnancy and normal delivery: $7,700. Typical yearly cost for managing type 2 diabetes for one person: $4,900. Typical cost for treatment of a simple fracture: $2,700.
December 16, 2024 at 3:07 AM
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Why does this headline feel like a Dr Who episode?
Google News headline from the BBC reads: King recharged by Christmas power station trip" with a sort of deranged photo of King Charles III beneath it
December 12, 2024 at 9:34 PM
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I went ahead and bought my Thanksgiving leftovers early, just in case
A store-bought pie that's split down the middle. Half is pumpkin pie and half is pecan pie
November 25, 2024 at 12:51 AM
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I could space my work tasks out over the day so I don't get too stressed out. Or I could cram everything into the last two hours of my day finishing everything in the haze of an impending deadline
The kombucha girl meme, a blond woman makes an icky gross face in the first frame and a more contemplative accepting face in the second.
November 19, 2024 at 9:41 PM
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Really concerning to see the NaNoWriMo organization buddying up with right-wing trolls on facebook
November 3, 2024 at 6:42 PM
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Interviewer: Could you tell us a little more about your career goals?

Me:
I've never had a hero or a mentor but there's a huge raccoon on my street who's been stealing boots from backyards and then throwing them at people from high in her tree, and tbh she might be it
September 18, 2024 at 9:19 PM
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I snuck in under the half million mark
Screencap of the "thanks for being one of our first 10 million users" announcement listing me as viewer #427,329
September 16, 2024 at 11:16 PM
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#NaNoWriMo is no longer committed to storing the novels written as part of their Young Writers Program. If you or someone in your life used the YWP site, you should back up your work asap
Finally, since the spring of 2024, it has been on our YWP product roadmap to retire the aforementioned feature. There are so many wonderful composition tools out there with features that surpass ours; providing an embedded app for writers to write is not really in our wheelhouse. We also think there's a way for us to continue providing resources to teachers and their classrooms full of young writers without taking on the responsibility of storing their work.
September 10, 2024 at 2:57 AM
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On the left are NaNoWriMo's sponsors before last year's grooming scandal, on the right are NaNoWriMo's sponsors now. It's rare to see decay like this in just 9 months
September 5, 2024 at 6:14 PM
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Ninja Writers is no longer listed as a NaNoWriMo sponsor.
A list of Nanowrimo's current 25th anniversary sponsors from their website. The four remaining sponsors are: scrivener, ProWritingAid, Dabble, and storyist
September 5, 2024 at 4:41 PM
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Look like NaNoWriMo has edited the post without public comment to add a new paragraph
Note: we have edited this post by adding this paragraph to reflect our acknowledgment that there are bad actors in the AI space who are doing harm to writers and who are acting unethically. We want to make clear that, though we find the categorical condemnation for AI to be problematic for the reasons stated below, we are troubled by situational abuse of AI, and that certain situational abuses clearly conflict with our values. We also want to make clear that AI is a large umbrella technology and that the size and complexity of that category (which includes both non-generative and generative AI, among other uses) contributes to our belief that it is simply too big to categorically endorse or not endorse.
September 2, 2024 at 4:45 PM
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Vera is a fearsom beast!
A picture of a black cat engaging in play fighting, with her paws up and her mouth open to show off her teefies.
August 22, 2024 at 10:36 PM
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5. 4theWords - app.4thewords.com
Free for 15 days, then $4/month. Not a traditional tracking tool. 4thewords gamifies your goals. You log in and write words to defeat monsters. This has a pay-as-you-go system instead of locking you into a subscription.
June 27, 2024 at 2:54 AM
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4. Pacemaker - pacemaker.press
Free basics w/ premium content. Creates a writing schedule based on how you work best, including setting days off or larger/smaller goals at the beginning vs end of the project. Set community goals and track by pages, words, time, etc
June 27, 2024 at 2:53 AM
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3. WriteTrack - writetrack.cloud
Free. Again, track multiple goals at once. You can only track by number of words written. You can weight certain days and it does the math to write more/less on weekdays vs weekends, etc. Create groups and see your friends' progress
June 27, 2024 at 2:53 AM
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2. MyWriteClub - mywriteclub.com
Free. Not many frills. Track multiple projects and goals at once and track by pages, words, time, etc. You can run word sprints with your friends and keep up with their progress.
June 27, 2024 at 2:52 AM
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1. TrackBear - trackbear.app
Free. Track multiple projects and goals at a time. You can track by words, pages, time, etc. which is functionality NaNoWriMo lost in 2019. Create leaderboards with friends and groups where you can set community goals and challenges.
June 27, 2024 at 2:51 AM
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NaNoWriMo's new terms & conditions say you need written permission before you can talk about NaNoWriMo. I don't know when they decided to model themselves after Fight Club
National Novel Writing Month retains trademarks on the following: “NaNoWriMo.” “National Novel Writing Month.” “Camp NaNoWriMo.” “NaNoWriMo’s Young Writers Program.” NaNoWriMo logo and all derivations. Camp NaNoWriMo logo and all derivations. NaNoWriMo’s Young Writers Program logo and all derivations. Neither our name, our trademarks, nor any logos or graphical properties may be utilized, copied, or reposted without our express written permission.
June 21, 2024 at 11:39 PM