FicFan Will Be Hosting National Novel Writing Month 2025

A full-scale National Novel Writing Month 2025 event will be hosted this November on FicFan in English, Fanfictionero in Spanish, and Ficmania in Portuguese. We welcome all feedback and suggestions to help make this the best NaNoWriMo yet.

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How to participate

1. Get to know ficfan

   Sign up, post your existing works, read others

2. Join our NewNoWriMo discord server

   

3. Write a blog post about your progress

   Add #newnowrimo tag to get featured on this page

   Write a blog post: https://fic.fan/home/blog

4. Start posting and track your progress!

   Will be available on November 1st

Dates: 1.11.25 - 30.11.25

Write a 50,000 words novel in 30 days!

NewNoWriMo is a month-long writing challenge inspired by NаNoWriMo.

The goal is to write 50,000 words between November 1st and November 30th. Whether you're starting a brand-new story or continuing a long-standing WIP, NewNoWriMo invites you to celebrate creativity, community, and the worlds you love. It doesn’t matter if you are a first-time writer or a seasoned pro, this is your month to dive in and create!

Rules

– Word count goal: Write at least 50,000 words during November.

– Timeframe: All words must be written between 12:00 AM on November 1st and 11:59 PM on November 30th, your local time

– Sole Author: You must write the 50,000 words yourself.

– Planning is Encouraged: Outlining, character notes, timelines, research, and worldbuilding are all allowed before and during November and during Preptober but actual prose writing must happen during the challenge period.

– Creative Freedom: Want to explore original stories, AUs, write a crossover, or experiment with new formats? Go for it! NewNoWriMo is about your creative joy!

The Story of NaNoWriMo

NaNoWriMo was a nonprofit organization that hosted an annual writing challenge: write a 50,000-word novel during the month of November. It was an inspiring event that motivated thousands of writers to unleash their creativity and stick with it year after year.

Unfortunately, in recent years, the organization has experienced a steep decline due to lack of funding and poor management, leading to major controversies involving questionable AI sponsors and issues related to child safety.

And finally, the organization has announced it will be shutting down and 2025 event will not happen.
And this is where we’ve chosen to step in.

NaNoWriMo: New Chapter

We genuinely believe the core idea of NaNoWriMo is fantastic. It provides a clear goal, a solid timeline, and a shared sense of purpose in overcoming writer’s block as a community. That’s why we’ve decided to take on the challenge and make NaNoWriMo 2025 the best version of the event to date.

We’re bringing our 15 years of experience to make NaNoWriMo 2025 the best it can be. We believe in open dialogue and the power of community. All suggestions are welcome. You can share them here by dropping a message to support with "Ideas and suggestions" category, on our social media channels, or reach out directly via: kb@fic.fan

Here’s what we can confirm so far:

• You’ll be able to participate with both original works and fanfiction, in any genre, fandom, or pairing.
• Participation will be completely free for everyone.
• We’re dedicating the next several months to ensure the best experience possible.
• No AI-generated content allowed, this is a celebration of human creativity.

Everyone deserves to be heard. We are here to listen.

About FicFan

We are a team of writers and fanfiction enthusiasts from Europe, and many of us were part of the original development team behind ficbook.net which is a Russian-language fanfiction platform launched in 2009. Over time, Ficbook grew to more than 20 million users, becoming the second-largest fanfiction website in the world after AO3.

In recent years, however, the Russian government passed harsh anti-LGBTQ+ laws and pressured us to remove all slash and femslash content. We were threatened with criminal charges and even physical violence. But we refused to compromise. For us, writing is about freedom of expression and community. Giving in would have meant betraying everything we’d built.

As a result, Ficbook was banned in Russia. We lost a large portion of our audience, but many loyal writers and readers continue to access the site through VPNs.

Since then, we’ve expanded our vision, launching multilingual platforms based on the Ficbook codebase:

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