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               NaNoGenMo seems … kind of silly to do these days

For the past few days just as I'm falling alseep, I think, yes, I could make
a post about that, only to completely forget about the next day. I finally
remembered what I wanted to post about—NaNoGenMo (National Novel Generation
Month) [1]. Or rather, how I completely forgot about it this year (and kept
forgetting to write about it—sheesh).

And last year.

And the year before.

And the year before that.

Has it really been five years since I last participated?

Yeah, I guess so [2].

I think it fell off my radar once ChatGPT (Generative Pre-trained
Transformer) (which is “cat, I farted [3]” in French) hit the scenes. Or
rather, the current spate of software that was released into the world in
2020 and it became trivially easy to generate nonsensical text (and images,
and music, and code, and …). It also looks like participation in NaNoGenMo
has dropped significantly since 2020:

Table: NaNoGenMo participants per year
year    # novels (roughly)
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2013    80
2014    145
2015    184
2016    138
2017    127
2018    105
2019    138
2020    78
2021    87
2022    50
2023    36
2024    30

There's just … no challenge anymore.

[1] https://nanogenmo.github.io/
[2] https://github.com/spc476/NaNoGenMo-2019
[3] https://translate.google.com/?sl=en&tl=fr&text=Cat%20I%20farted&op=translate

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