NaNoWriMo to close after 20 years

(theguardian.com)

21 points | by kawera a day ago ago

17 comments

  • acheong08 a day ago

    This is unfortunate. I distinctly remember participating in NaNoWriMo back in middle school. The writing often extended beyond November as it was actually enjoyable. Freeform writing is so much better for learning than the contrived bureaucratic style we're forced into in high school.

  • xrd a day ago

    My eight year old daughter is busily writing several books about the adventures of cats on nanowrimo.

    Are there any good open source alternatives for self hosting this kind of platform?

    This makes me very sad.

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  • ilrwbwrkhv a day ago

    Why is AI writing shunned? The book publishing industry needs to be badly disrupted.

    • dpig_ a day ago

      Publishing an AI-written novel is about as thoughtful as a doctor sending you an LMGTFY link with your symptoms.

    • trvrprkr a day ago

      > badly disrupted

      Embracing AI writing would absolutely be a disruption of the bad kind.

      • ilrwbwrkhv a day ago

        why? ai writing is one of the few places where ai might actually be good. topic choice, inwriting, editing are also huge things.

        • sarlalian a day ago

          I’m just going to borrow an excellent quote that applies here.

          “If you couldn’t be bothered to write it, why should I bother to read it?”

          • ilrwbwrkhv a day ago

            because you are overindexing on the act of writing instead of how it feels to read. now whether you should pay the same amount for it or not is a different question.

    • dontlaugh a day ago

      You want even more bad writing? Why?!

    • theGeatZhopa a day ago

      one thing is disruption of the publishing industry, the other is taking monetazation possibiities off authors (despite the piggy-back bloodsuckers)

      so, how the AI writing will help the authors? Or, did you mean "authorship needs to be disrupted"?

      • ilrwbwrkhv a day ago

        authors are already using ai. it needs to be more transparently sold

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    • mystified5016 a day ago

      Nobody wants to buy AI books. People who buy books would see an AI book as an outright scam.

      • kazinator a day ago

        Corollary: people who don't mind reading AI slop are in a demographic that wouldn't pay for a book.

    • __loam a day ago

      Because it's built off the labor of actual writers, which it displaced. The people who actually read books also hate this shit.