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Okay, official thread for July is here: LiMoWriMo - LiNoWriMo July 2025 – Official Thread

Here we have it! The official thread for July's LiNoWriMo. 1. Comment below to say you're want to join the event. 2. Tell us a bit about the project you're going to focus on for July. (It can be any project, new or old) 3. Give us a goal you want to hit. (Going for the full 50k like a...

Litopia's Monster Writing Month Litopia's Month of Writing Momentously

The join code is ready to go. Can someone try joining the leaderboard to see if it works? Join code: 034541c6-6f0f-4bb0-a1e1-c8c288640e2a In URL format: https://trackbear.app/leaderboards/join?joinCode=034541c6-6f0f-4bb0-a1e1-c8c288640e2a

You should be able to set a different goal and measure and track that. For editing it could be chapters, words, scenes, or lines edited—or time. There should be a tab that says "My Participation" that allows you to edit what your goal is. Once you set your goal, the leaderboard will track...

I will post a new link once it all kicks off. Alternatively, if people don't want to use Trackbear, I can set up a spreadsheet like before

Okay, so next test is to see if people can use this link to track their progress? TrackBear

For those of you who remember back to November last year, we did ran a pretty successful Litopia NaNoWriMo for national novel writing month. Is anyone keen for a mid-year event?

Woohoo, fabulous news! Congratulations :bottle-with-popping-cork:

What is the new Author Platform? Happy to help, but would like to know more.

In my experience, it is significantly harder to get traction with a blog these days (speaking as someone who wrote blogs for businesses for several years). It's a trade off of whether you want to build your audience over time (a LOT of time) or use a platform that already has an audience (e.g...

I used it for a bit when I was writing a lot of short stories a few years ago. I found it quite good for tracking and researching markets/magazines. I'm not writing a lot of short stories these days, but I do curate a list of submission calls for SpecFicNZ's newsletter and I get those mostly...

Great blog! I'm going to share it with my writing group :clapping-hands:

Delighted to share some award news from the southern hemisphere! I've had three works shortlisted in the Sir Julius Vogel Awards and another three shortlisted across four categories in the Aurealis Awards. Sir Julius Vogel (NZ, fan-voted – if you nominated me in these, massive thank you) The...