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#TIL the sad news that a major not-for-profit organisation for NaNoWriMo was a casualty of the #Mole Training craze, although apparently the writing challenge continues informally, much as it began (see #WritingMonth);

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/apr/02/creative-writing-nanowrimo-to-close-after-20-years

It shut down just over a year ago, after antagonizing their community with a public statement claiming that "the categorical condemnation of Artificial Intelligence has classist and ableist undertones";

https://www.404media.co/nanowrimo-ai-policy-classist-ableist/

#AI #NaNoWriMo #writing

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"Writing is a tough vocation made all the more difficult by changing delivery systems, archaic business models, and imploding economies. You write your heart out and some clown you don’t even know takes a sucker punch at you in the media, and manners and tradition dictate that you remain silent. But it’s the best of jobs.[...]"

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