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Hey everyone! So I have been thinking about this quite a bit lately.
Im sure a lot of you here know about/have heard of NaNoWriMo. In fact some of you may have even participated in it (wether officially or unofficially).
But what some of you may or may not know is that NaNoWriMo, or the people running it, has been increasingly moving towards a more and more liberal, none-Christian agenda, with immoral values.
Due to this I am not allowed to join, and I’m sure many other Christian’s aren’t either nor would they want to.
But, this still leaves the question…
What do we do then for our own selves? Because we still want to participate in NaNo or Camp Nano.
so I’ve been thinking….
What if…we made Our own Nano?
Not some huge website or anything grand with prizes or anything (I mean, reward yourself and we can give ideas and such if you wanna do that!)
But we those who want to can get together, for our own Nano and Camp NaNo’s and write in our projects. We can do this through a shared google doc, etc. maybe one day if someone with better ability ever wanted to make a Christian Nano they could but yea lol!
So here’s what I’m thinking-
How this would work-
It wouldn’t be a big website with trackers and such, just a way for us to chat about our writing and sprint in a certain month and really be excited about it, kinda like CWW was. We can even share ideas for prizes you can get yourselves personally, and maybe I can make some sort of digital badge/certificate for whoever “Wins!”
We would probably communicate through a shared google doc, and I’d set it up (where you’d go to chat, where you’d go to enter your sprints, etc)
Id have whoever is going to join “sign up” (let me know they’re joining) so I can make said doc with your own tracking areas in the page.
again it would be a bit of trial and error but yea!
I figure we can test this idea with Camp
Nano.Camp Nano
So Camp Nano is essentially the easier/low key version of Nanowrimo, so I’d you don’t think you have time or the ability to write 50K in a month on a novel then u can still join the camp. The camp is for your individual goals and you can work on any creative project (poetry, novellas, outlining, etc)
There is one in April and one in July (so 2 months away which would give plenty of time for me to work out all the details and you to figure out if this is something you guys are interested in. And if I can/am allowed to do it XD. And If I’m not btw, plz anyone feel free to take this idea and run with it!)
So we can use the camp in April as a kinda trial run of this. And see what we think…
what do y’all think?
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This is an awesome idea! I’d heard about nano and how bad it had gotten so I decided not to join but this is great. 😊😁
Oh cool!
Honestly, whether nano was having issues or not… much rather do it just with us kp people XD
I had no idea they were having those issues, but then again, I’ve never been involved in the community. I just figured you wrote 50k or whatever, submitted your form and got your certificate. Yeah, If they are promoting bad stuff I wouldn’t want to do it. This sounds like fun!
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Great idea! Even if we don’t make a doc or have an ‘official’ writing month or whatever, we could probably make sprint posts on here, and tag people for accountability/if they wanna write with you kind of thing.
XD I’ve never done NaNo before, so if we do it prepare for lots of questions…"...I did not say to the seed of Jacob, 'Seek Me in vain..."
(Part of) Isaiah 45:19Great idea!! I’d way rather do it with y’all anyway XD <3! I’d love to do it with you guys!!
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I heard about NaNoWriMo last year and was shocked at the liberal wokeness on their website, so I never joined.
This is a great idea and I’d certainly be up for it! 🙂 🙂
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This sounds awesome!!
I almost did NaNo last year on my own, but November was going to be busy, so I didn’t.
Sounds like a great idea!! I’d be willing to do the camp with y’all in April! 🙂 🙂
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This sounds amazing! I’d love to join, although my goals would be remarkably low for the April one since I really have a ton of other things I need to do that hold higher priority. Then summers are usually chock full of camps and things that we are either attending or working, so that would also have to be really low. But with it being less formal, I might be able to… We’ll have to see.
However, it still sounds amazing!
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I’m glad everyone likes the idea!! Like I said we do have 2 months before it gets here lol, so plenty of time to prep, I’ll probably get everything ready for Camp April towards the end of this month/March
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#ProtectSebThis seems fun.
However April is basically out for me because of AP Exams 😭
If this isn’t too prying would you mind explaining the thing about Nanowrimo being to liberal/non-Christian (I was thinking about doing it next year so I did a quick peek around their site and didn’t see anything shocking but then again it was quick)
@folith-feolin well, you can look up some stuff about it and see. It’s mostly when it comes to their viewpoints and what they allow in their chats, servers, etc.
For instance one story I read:
An email was sent out from them stating all cops were racist one year, and when one Christian girl politely emailed a reply stating this was not true they came back very nastily against her.
They just overall have been pushing a very liberal agenda in their servers and chats, stating a “Everything goes”
I completely agree with their be respectful to others, but you can tell that it’s centered and aimed towards an agenda, because they then are not respectful towards the Christian viewpoint and mainly mean that towards the liberal agenda.
If you weren’t wanting it for the community as well (which is some of the reason you’d want to join Nano in the first place) it would be fine 😊 but if you’d want to join for the community too…it’s just being bogged down by a lot of unneeded things when it’s supposed to be centered around fun and writing.
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Ok maybe shocking was too strong of a word…I was saddened by what I saw.
I have a habit of reading the “about/our values” sections of most websites first, and so I saw that NaNoWriMo was very outspoken about their immoral and untrue beliefs. Personally I decided not to participate in the contest.
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I think we forgot about this. Lol. I really want it to try it though. Maybe we can still do it July?? I’ll definitely have the time. I don’t have any camps/other activities until the very last Monday.
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