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Greetings and Salutations! in c/nanowrimo2@feddit.online
Greetings and Salutations! in c/nanowrimo2@feddit.online
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Thank you for your wonderful welcome, George!

I'm surprised anyone would remember me from the Chris Baty years, so that's awesome.

Also, I appreciate FediWriMo's No AI rule. I believe with an immovable certainty that creative endeavors meant for human consumption require humans. Art is empathy, is exposing the human condition in its beautiful yet ghastly imperfection. The whole point of making anything is to allow ourselves to do our worst, so we can get better through passion and practice. AI can't emulate humanity even as well as a parrot, for a parrot can interact with meaning and an AI bot will regurgitate words that mathematically go together yet contain no meaning. AI is a reflection in a cracked, smoky mirror in a dark room: We may believe we're talking to something with human qualities, but it's just our own image warped by its distortion and our environment. (IMO, of course.)

I'll absolutely take a look at TrackBear. I appreciate very much the recommendation. At worst, I can input my word count at both locations.

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    Greetings and Salutations! Introductions (fedia.io)
     

    I am Just Jess.

    I'm the same Just Jess from the site that no longer shall be loaded.

    Since 2003, I've written at least one rough-draft manuscript every November (excluding 2016 for . . . reasons). I was my region's official organizer of "write-offs" in 2004, and I proselytized the 50/30/1 life. (50K words, 30 days, 1 novel--yours!) I still have buttons and "Hello, My Novel is" stickers from that year.

    I attended (and unofficially led) local write-offs regularly until 2008. Then I only chased the word count because it felt too . . . well, too commercial and elitist. That's also when I stopped posting to the forums. If you weren't part of the core clique, it was obvious you didn't matter. Also, the goal was diluted from 50/30/1 to whatever-floats-your-goat.

    In 2023, what should have been a milestone as my 20th year participating was a non-starter. I just clocked word count and walked away.

    In 2024, I found out about the situation. I started my third decade of writing one (or more) manuscripts over November at [writingmonth.org] (https://writingmonth.org/) though I don't remember if I wrote 50K words or not due to the same reasons of 2016.

    I'm happy as the chickens-dickens to be here at FediWriMo. I've got a manuscript idea for a cozy core fantasy to follow up my recently published cozy science fiction novel: Final Lap.

    I'm an indie writer and editor, hardcore No AI 'Til I Die.

    Published Novels (as Jessica Alter):

    THE DOME TRILOGY Beneath a Sunless Sky Nightmare Specters Solaray Dawn

    THE CRYPTID SERIES 'Til Undeath Do Us Part Man and Brother

    THE SMUGGLERS OF CYGNUS Final Lap Odatria (TBA)