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NaNoWriMo to close after 20 years

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.

19 hours agoxrd

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.

19 hours agoacheong08
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19 hours ago

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

19 hours agoilrwbwrkhv

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

18 hours agodpig_

> badly disrupted

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

19 hours agotrvrprkr

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

17 hours agoilrwbwrkhv

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?”

14 hours agosarlalian

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.

14 hours agoilrwbwrkhv

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"?

19 hours agotheGeatZhopa

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

17 hours agoilrwbwrkhv
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16 hours ago

You want even more bad writing? Why?!

16 hours agodontlaugh

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

19 hours agomystified5016

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

14 hours agokazinator

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