Nanaimo
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50,000 words. One month. One Goal. Finish.

Miss a day and the words move to the days you have left. Beat the word count, your days are a bit easier, point is you always know today's number. A bad Tuesday does not end the month a good one takes some weight off.

Writing opens 4 weeks from now

Preptober. Build the people, the places, and the notes. Writing unlocks November 1.

Preptober checklist

Cabins

Suffer with your friends.

Pitch a cabin. Send the link. When someone posts at the table, the rest of you hear about it.

Pitch a cabin
The desk

The book is already on the desk.

Tag a character. Tag a location. Leave a note. In October that is the work. On November 1 the manuscript unlocks on the same desk.

The waterfall

Today's number is the real one.

Day one at zero is 1,667 words. Miss Tuesday and Wednesday asks for more. Write a pile on Saturday and Sunday gets lighter. The day turns over at midnight in your timezone.

Reminders

We will tell you the number.

Pick an hour. If you have not written yet, Nanaimo sends today's goal and a link back to the desk.

Set your hour
The founder

Watch him do it too.

In November his count is on the wall with everyone who puts their name up. You are in the month with other people.

In the trenches

What are you waiting for?

The Nanaimo story is free. Unlimited characters. Unlimited locations. It stays yours after November.

Join the challenge