For the past few days just as I'm falling alseep,
I think,
yes, I could make a post about that,
only to completely forget about the next day.
I finally remembered what I wanted to post about—NaNoGenMo.
Or rather,
how I completely forgot about it this year
(and kept forgetting to write about it—sheesh).
And last year.
And the year before.
And the year before that.
Has it really been five years since I last participated?
Yeah, I guess so.
I think it fell off my radar once ChatGPT
(which is “cat, I farted” in French)
hit the scenes.
Or rather,
the current spate of software that was released into the world in 2020 and it became trivially easy to generate nonsensical text
(and images, and music, and code, and …).
It also looks like participation in NaNoGenMo has dropped significantly since 2020:
NaNoGenMo participants per year
| year | # novels (roughly) |
|---|
| 2013 | 80 |
| 2014 | 145 |
| 2015 | 184 |
| 2016 | 138 |
| 2017 | 127 |
| 2018 | 105 |
| 2019 | 138 |
| 2020 | 78 |
| 2021 | 87 |
| 2022 | 50 |
| 2023 | 36 |
| 2024 | 30 |
There's just … no challenge anymore.
You have my permission to link freely to any entry here. Go
ahead, I won't bite. I promise.
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