Renaming NaNo to NovMo
Hello! You may have noticed that your friendly neighborhood Gen Lit mods have been using Novel Month (or "NovMo") instead of National Novel Writing Month (or "NaNo") in all our official announcements. Here's the reasoning behind that change:
- Using NovMo separates YWS from the trademarked NaNoWriMo and the NaNoWriMo site's stances. The "official" NaNo website has been rather controversial lately. We'd like to distance YWS from that and emphasize that we're a safe place for young writers to share their writing.
- NaNoWriMo stands for "National Novel Writing Month", and YWS is really an international site, so Novel Month is both more accurate and more inclusive.
What does that mean for you? Well, we're not going to force anyone to call it NovMo, of course! =P NovMo is simply the language we're going to officially use for our November novel-writing event.
Feel free to reach out with any further questions, and happy NovMoing! ^-^
9 hours ago