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 ✒️

• Scholar and Scribe
• Writing Club
• CELF Magazine
• (others may be added!)
   

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(⚠️ Please follow all the rules of these communities! Wordspam will not be tolerated. Example: Scholar & Scribe is fiction focused. Writing Club is too, and only allows one post per day! ⚠️)

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 :)

 

About the Scholar and Scribe Community

Scholar and Scribe is a new creative writing community founded in the forges of Hive's passionate Pizza Guild. It sets itself part from some of the other writing groups on Hive with its unique dual-token system.

[ Quick token guide • S+S 'Whitepaper' ]

Thank you for reading. I own the license to all images in this post, except for the Scholar and Scribe banner icons, which were designed by @trashyomen.