Many writers, myself included, have mixed feelings about the demise of the National Novel Writing Month website, nanowrimo.org. (To read about why it went kaput, visit nanoscandal.com.)
NaNoWriMo motivated thousands of us to challenge ourselves and write 50,000 words or more in a single month. It was NaNoWriMo (and the writers who encouraged me to go for it – shout out to J.D. Blackrose) that made me realize I had it in me to write a novel-length work at all, when I’d previously written only blogs and short stories.
One of my favorite things about NaNoWriMo was that you could use its website to chart your progress, and it would create a pretty graph for you. Perhaps I am a simple creature, but seeing that line trending upward was super motivating to me.
The good news: other sites have sprung up to fill the gap NaNoWriMo left behind. My favorite is TrackBear, which I’ve been using since September to track my latest novel-in-progress.
Pretty, isn’t it?
Writing by Jen Mierisch 
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