This past November, we invited Hive users to both write and review stories during National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo).
We tracked wordcounts of rule-following posts in Scholar & Scribe, Writing Club, and CELF Magazine. Meanwhile, our friends at Hive Book Club invited folks to review eligible stories.
You can see the original post here.
😍 Participants, together, hit the 40K mark!
The full wordcount tally of eligible posts using the #hivenano2022 was: 44223
This pushes the collective effort past 40K, which is generally the lower bound of a novel. Congratulations all!
🎁 Dividing 30 HIVE by weight
The prize pool was 30 HIVE for writers (plus another 30 for reviewers). We will divide the writing prize proportional to the amount of words that everyone wrote. The top 3 writers will also get some bonus SCHOLAR and SCRIBE tokens:
Please allow us some time to coordinate the gifting of prizes :) Congratulations to everyone who participated!
🏆 Review prizing and other notable outcomes
The folks at Hive Book Club will sort out the review prizes. Honestly, seeing folks discover awesome writer here on Hive then reviewing it was amazing to see. I know it made the day of some of these writers, and helped build some awareness and relationships between readers and writers here on Hive. Magical!
Also, it was great to see some serial fiction emerge. Notably, @wrestlingdesires' Goddess of Darkness series was a regular feature in November.
Conclusion
This was a fun experiment, and I don't think anyone abused or was sneaky with trying to boost wordcounts. Granted, the participation level was fairly limited—with hundreds of entrants or bigger prizes I would imagine some deeper moderation might be needed.
I think we were successful in creating some new bonds and helping writers and readers connect too. This is the real win, in my opinion!
If anyone has feedback, please feel free to share!
About the Scholar and Scribe Community
Scholar and Scribe is a creative writing community founded in the forges of Hive's passionate Pizza Guild. It sets itself part from some of the other writing groups on Hive with its unique dual-token system.
Thank you for reading. I own the license to all images in this post, except for the Scholar and Scribe banner icons, which were designed by @trashyomen.