nanowrijoe.com

Write with your people.

Someone I care about was looking for motivation in her writing and lamenting the heel-turn of previous season writing challenges. Not being a writer myself I wanted to help. I started working on a small tool to help and it got way out of hand. I hope this helps encourage all of your imagination and creativity.

Every word counted here was written by a person. No AI-generated text, no AI "help", no training anybody's model on anything. Just us, typing.

How it works

  • Challenges are a stretch of days and a word goal, like 50,000 words in November. Take one on yourself, or with a cohort.
  • Cohorts are your writing people. See what everyone wrote each day, cheer each other on, and run challenges together, with your own Discord channel if you like. Join a friend's with an invite link, or start your own.
  • Log once. Record what you wrote each day, and it counts toward every challenge you're in, each measured against its own goal.
  • See your pace, your streak, and what it takes to finish on time.
  • Each challenge decides whether its board is a friendly list or a leaderboard.
  • Your words are yours. You can download all your data any time.
  • Profile pictures are optional. Uploads are shrunk and re-saved, which strips hidden photo details like location, and only logged-in writers can see them.