FediWriMo

So, I don’t know that it’s actually snowing here as I write this (it isn’t)… But the prediction for today is that it is going to snow, up to an inch. (Okay, I looked more closely, and it’s not supposed to start until the evening – but still…) Sounds like the perfect day for writing to me.

I’m taking a different route with these posts starting today. Originially, I was attempting a “horse race” style commentary on our progress. It was intended to be fun – it wasn’t. As a moderator / admin I shouldn’t be commenting on other’s progress outside of offering encouragement.

I don’t know if anyone else is doing this, but there is a Goal Tracker in TrackBear that is separate from the Leader Board. I think it’s interesting to look at it from time to time – just to see what the projection is of when I will complete the challenge. But, it’s also fun telling me what that amount of time is in different units. (I really like it when it puts in Sols.)

First: welcome to umbraroze to the leader board. It’s awesome having you join us in this friendly competition.

Reading is one of the things that I really like doing, but I don’t feel like I get as much time to do it as I would like. How about you?

So, today we have the reversal: JustJess has taken the #1 position, while I slipped a place to #2. Which is honestly, no big deal. To be fair, it could have been a lot worse for me. I almost posted a few hundred words today instead of the 1603 I managed.

So, what is your story? Do you know it yet? Is there still room for you to be surprised by your story?

Today, we welcome Adubya to the Leaderboard.

Last night I had a dream. Yes, a dream about my story. But, here’s the funny thing, it wasn’t about any of the characters or plot points of my story. It was a dream about recycling. Yes, recycling. For some reason, I was walking around in a back alley in a city where my story takes place, and there was this guy walking around looking to dump his recycling bags. I pointed out a “recycling station” to him, only to hear him cursing about having to go through his bags to separate stuff. And that was the end of the dream.

Hopefully by now you’ve started getting in the groove of everything. Now it’s time to just hit the throttle and keep on pushing.

Here are the standings for FediWriMo 2025 as of Midnight on Nov 4th.

So, I think this is a bit better of an image of the leaderboard. At least this one has a legend and the word count for each of the participants.

Time to get those fingers moving if you haven’t already… Yesterday might have been a bit of a challenge if you live in a location where Daylight Savings Time went into effect (like it did for me).

Yellow line is Mugita Sokio , while the Purple line is Unattributed .

Nope, that isn’t a typo. If you decide to take a look at the profile on WritingMonth, I’ve gone ahead and added in what turns out to be my Lemmy bio, minus the little thing regarding my PFP.