NaNoWriMo 2025

NaNoWrimo 2025 results for writer Kae Davis, host of morganplantagenet.com.

Woohoo! We did it again.

The National Novel Writers Month challenge (namely, to write 50K words or more on a writing project during the month of November) is over for 2025.

The non-profit of the same moniker that used to share support tips and tools with writers participating in the creative content production project has also closed it’s doors and disbanded as an organization.

But, they have forever changed how this writer approaches big writing projects. And for that I wanted to take a moment to thank them.

In my case I began back in 2015 taking on the task ever since of producing volumes of content on a topic of interest for me where I am able to online craft a dedicated website to hold unique content. Then, as time progresses I use content created during NANOWRIMO endeavors to act as a key term bank base that lets me continue to write over time on the same or connected subject matter later.

I modified their challenge to meet my medical needs. I aim for the following when creating a thirty day web project:

• 250 posts
• 150 pages
• 1000 jpgs (Memes, Screen Captured, Photos)
• Glossary creation
• SEO Optimization (75% or higher)
• inclusion in Google
• Social Media links Prep for clean distribution on sites like Facebook and on Twitter
• Contact Page
• Venmo donations page ([email protected])
• calendar feature with link to daily post
• layered menus with drop-down features
• breadcrumb links (basic)
• metrics additions
• sidebar
• footer with site structure links
• linked Facebook Fan Page TeamEmpath
• linked Instagram Think Tank with TeamEmpath

Here’s a synopsis of my progress building MP — my Historical Fiction Ancestral Cryptography website.

Special thanks to my husband Rev Steve Sobering for his tech support and being my relentless cheerleader.

Special thanks to my grandparents for teaching me Cryptography from my earliest years and for gifting me the Pict Language chits before I entered Nursery School.

Special thanks to people who turned out to be friends and for the loss of people from my life who I had no earthly idea were for.

Special thanks especially to NaNoWriMo former hosts and participants.

You inspired me during a rough period of the NASA Year In Space project I entered in 2011 (#yearinspace) as well as related to both my flyingmonkeysdenied.com and with regard to my ongoing Hack Mars projects (#hackmars).

AI Dev Ops have been forever assisted by everyone having so willingly participated.

As we move forward in years, every November I expect to focus on something creative. With a decade of writing for fun during November, I look forward to pacing myself similarly ongoing.

If you are a writer just getting started or seasoned, I recommend the word count be cut to 25k for medical preservation of body. But to those super athletes up to the task of brain flexing, 50k words in a month to produce literary content is absolutely doable and academically noteworthy.

As I exceeded my personal modified 30k word writing goal, I expect to complete the 50k mark before the week’s end.

I will come back to this post to add a screenshot below once we cross the word count threshold!

Because I have a birthday early in the month I always give myself a few extra days in December to pull the NaNoWriMo metrics together.

I set my goal to write every day in November this year and I actually met it, so I am actually by my rubric quite a bit ahead of where I expected to be for rate of production right now.

Every word, a single accomplishment.