IWSG: dunno what to call the post, as usual

    So, once again, I don't really have a lot to say.  The month's question doesn't really speak to me much, but my writing life is pretty stagnant right now, so I don't have a lot to say.

    Unless I want to complain about my new laptop and how much I hate Windows 11, and how annoying it is to switch back to a two-laptop system where my internet access and my writing are on separate machines, but that's both very much a "me" problem and also distressingly bourgeoisie.

    Anyway.

    Uh...what can I talk about instead?

    Apparently, NaNoWriMo is no more?  Not sure what happened--but the last news I heard, they had aligned themselves with AI-bros on top of the scandal from I guess two years ago(?), so that's probably not too surprising--but I've been doing my own independent November writing challenge for so many years now that it doesn't really impact me much.  I'm just doing my usual thing anyway, regardless of the absence of an official version.

    I wonder if the collapse of the official NaNoWriMo is negatively impacting anyone else's November writing journey, though?

    I've seen a lot of people on Discord asking around after tracking sites to keep track of their progress as they try to write independently.  Haven't looked into any of them myself, though; I'm fine with just using my blog to track my word count.

    Hmm.

    Nope, I really don't have much to say this month.  (Or maybe I'm just using all my words on my writing challenge progress and don't have any to spare for blogging?)

    Anyway, after I do today's writing, I'll be adding my daily numbers to the end of the post below.