ZeroWriMo
For many of us, November brings shorter days and longer nights.
With colder temperatures already here (writing this in the soon-to-be tundra that is the capital of Canada), the ZW team is finding refuge from the looming winter-driven despair in our writing. And vitamin D supplements.
A long time ago, in a galaxy not-so-far away, many writers participated in a November-long writing sprint all about getting a novel out in about 30 days. In recent years, things have gone a bit differently, but the underlying spirit to create still is there.
ZeroWriMo!
That’s why we’re bringing you the first ZeroWriMo (ZeroWriter Writing Month) this November. Make it a month to boost your creative output a bit more than usual, support each other along the way, and be further ahead on your projects at the end of the month.
ZeroWriMo is about the journey, not the destination. Instead of worrying about 1500 words per day, choose what works for you: 500-a-week? 1000-a-day? One-poem-a-fortnight? Something in between? Whatever you want! It's entirely self-driven and an honour-system.
If you succeed (by your own judgement): at the end of the month, Zerowriter will grant you One Million Points! And, in Who's Line Is It Anyway fashion: the points are made up and don't matter. But, we will add them to your Zerowriter account, anyway, which makes them enticingly, entirely real.
Who knows what they could be used for, one day? Perhaps nothing. But perhaps something...
ZeroWriMo is open to anyone, anywhere. No Zerowriter device required! Just pledge to be a bit more creative than usual this month. Or a lot more.
If you want to join in our community and participate: join the discord. Or, just do it!
Let us know what you finish.
Short stories, poetry, novels… we love it all. Everything and anything is welcome.
Already a Zerowriter owner or backer? Consider checking out the first ever Zerowriter Anthology by HoundsGate Press. Would make a great project for this month!
Send Stu (Stuart@zerowriter.ink) links to your blogs, substacks, websites and where we can find your published works and we’ll share it with the ZW community, if you want to share. Printed works will get prioritized for the Indie Author Program. If you have not yet checked that out please do. We would love to support your work.
If the interest is there - perhaps a ZeroWriMo anthology could be in the cards… we’ll keep you posted on that.
Any questions, feedback, comments? Send them Stu's way.
Happy ZeroWriMo to those who celebrate!
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Wow, “video output mode” – that’s exciting! It opens up endless possibilities for sharing the screen! :-)
Could you please make the “video output mode” available to Zerowriter owners?
Imagine the kudos from using a Zerowriter to share writing on big screens (in those beautiful fonts, at any size), at keynote speeches, crowd-interactive presentations, demos, collaborative writing events, lecture theatres, to cue up live events and broadcasts, or actors on a set / in theatre, and so many other public scenarios. It’d be a legendary game-changing feature.