Introducing Our November Writing Challenge!

This year we have decided to start our very own, novel-writing challenge for the month of November!!
Anyone familiar with [now retired] NaNoWriMo will recognize the format: in the month of November, each participant will attempt to write 50,000 words on either a new project or continuing a pre-existing novel project!

So has graciously found a great website for us to use, to keep track of our individual progress!
https://trackbear.app/
Another attendee suggested we could up the competition by collecting for a winner’s pool! Any in-person participant is eligible to contribute $10. And at the end of the month, the pool will be evenly divided among all participants to have completed the 50,000 word challenge!
Winner’s Pool buy-in will take place at the November 7th meeting - still open for ideas on how to stash the funds until the end of the month!

To share your stats on TrackBear, after making an account, go to Settings under your username, then toggle the Public Profile switch to “Enabled” this will allow other participants to see your project!
Under Projects, click “+ New” and fill in the details for your project, under “Show on profile?” Toggle on, so all participants can see your project.
If you’re continuing a project that you’ve already started, enter your current word count, if starting a new project leave at zero.
Joining the leaderboard: The Writing Hour November Novel-Writing Challenge! will be the easiest way to track each other’s progress, click this direct join link:

https://trackbear.app/leaderboards/join?joinCode=7003f6b1-8a0b-461e-93af-bcb4079c0d5f

Or, click “Leaderboards” and then “Use Join Code” and enter:
7003f6b1-8a0b-461e-93af-bcb4079c0d5f

I will unfortunately not be able to attend this meeting but I’ll be keeping a close eye on the event chat!
My username is OfBookCottage, feel free to share your username here, so we can all make the connections 😊

Come at 10:00 for talking about all-things writing

Come at 10:30 for a solid hour of writing time!
Bring: whatever you write with (computer, tablet, paper etc.), interesting new hacks and facts, and your mental focus!
Please be prepared to make a small purchase to support the business where we meet.