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Introduction

Welcome to the new Fediverse Writing Month Community. This community is for the continuation of NaNoWriMo in spirit, without any connection or relationship with the original organization / organizers.

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The Flip Side

Today let's take a closer look at the flip side of yesterday's topic. I think it's a good idea to balance the things that we write about in our journals. One day might be about people that we need to keep at arm's length, and the next about the people that we don't have any limits on.

Hopefully this will be the first of the days when we get to do some compare and contrast.

Day Four Prompt

Do you have a ride-or-die friend? Is there someone in your life you know you can depend on when you need them? Is there someone that will tell you the hard truths when you need to hear them? Is this person someone you are still in frequent contact with, or is it someone that you haven't seen or heard from for a while?

There are plenty of things that we can examine when we look at our friendships. This is just one of the things about our friends that is good to reflect on.

Who Is Your Best Friend? How Did You Meet? Why Are They Your Best Friend?

Note: These prompts are being supplied as a completely optional item for you to use, if you are stuck on what to write. In fact, you might want to use one of these early prompts later in the month if you get stuck.

Leader Board Update

I've given this a bit of thought. I think posting the LeaderBoard in here twice a week should be sufficient to show the progress the participants are making in the goal. My current thought is to post it on Sunday and Thursday, but I might change the days if I think of a reason to.

Instead, I will supply the link to the Leader Board most days.

Resources

If you haven’t seen them already, we have two (hopefully) helpful documents:

And, if you didn’t have it already, here is the link to the TrackBear App.

Closing Note

If you haven’t posted before, leave us a comment below. We’d love to get to know all the participants in the event.

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[–] msokiovt@thriv.social 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

For those who aren't participating right now, that's alright. It's myself and Unattributed writing, and we certainly have some friendly competition in page count. However... I just wrote 8 pages worth, which is certainly something. That's because I did something I wrote in a Signal message in August of last year, which was relevant to what I wrote about. It was outside the prompt, but since I was writing something about my own enlightenment, this was something I was able to do just fine.

Unattributed has some catching up to do. :P

[–] Unattributed@feddit.online 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I haven't begun to write yet... 🤣

[–] msokiovt@thriv.social 0 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

That's fair. Considering that we have different schedules, it makes sense. XD

Edit: I just checked the leaderboard. You beat me in pages for the day, and then some.

[–] Unattributed@feddit.online 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Yeah - I wasn't planning to... I actually thought I would only write four or five pages, but on page five I started into a brain dump that carried on to page six, and by the time I'd wrapped everything up I was on page seven...

[–] msokiovt@thriv.social 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

That explains it. Brain dumping seems to work well, I guess.

[–] Unattributed@feddit.online 1 points 5 days ago

It was something that needed to happen - but I do, in fact, think I need a different outlet for it. I am considering creating a "digital junkyard" - a place for brain dumps that really serve no purpose other than getting them out of my mind so they don't consume brain cells. ;)