Did you know that November is National Novel Writing Month?
The short form is NaNoWriMo, and it’s been long since adopted worldwide to try and encourage writing.
The Scholar & Scribe NaNoWriMo challenge is pretty simple! (No need to actually write a novel.)
✒️ From Nov 1–30: for any post in the following communities, include this tag: #hivenano2022 ✒️
#hivenano2022 ✒️ - Scholar and Scribe
- Writing Club
- CELF Magazine
- (others may be added!)
At the end of the month, we will tally up your wordcount for posts in November. Technically, a novel is 40,000 words but we do not require you to reach that many!
This is just a nice bonus challenge for those who were considering participating in NaNo already.
Scholar & Scribe will provide approximately 30 HIVE worth of prizing!
📚 Hive Book Club review challenge
Alongside this challenge, our friends over at Hive Book Club will run a review challenge. If you make a post in Hive Book Club that reviews a piece of fiction written for this challenge (i.e. the story you review includes a #hivenano2022 tag), you’ll be included in a Hive Book Club prize pool consideration.
Hive Book Club’s prize pool will be an additional 30 HIVE worth of prizing!
🎁 Prizing
A future post will reveal the nature of the prizes. In total we have at least 60 HIVE worth, so it’s gonna be juicy!
For writers, your wordcount of #hivenano2022 fiction posts will matter. Obvious word spam will however get you disqualified. Wordy signatures will not be included in the word count. Non-fiction or blogs are only allowed where they fit into a participating community’s guidelines. For example, Scholar & Scribe does not allow non-fiction, so a nonfic blog in S&S will probably get muted, and not count.
For Hive Book Club reviewers, quality reviews will be your ticket to prizing glory.
🤔 Prompt ideas
- Consider participating in the Dreemport WOTW contests, which happens monthly in S&S
- There’s usually a monthly invitational writing contest in S&S as well
- S&S is serial-friendly, meaning you can write multi-part stories
👩🔬 Note: this is experimental!
Using wordcount is a tricksy approach. But NaNo centres around producing words, so we're going to give it a shot. Feedback and thoughts are more than welcome :)
