- Name: Curio Heart
- Title: Completed my first NaNoWriMo
- Write-up:
When I opened up Obsidian for the first time in February this year, it was almost like a dream come true. Its core features alone, which I’d long craved in a writing app, almost immediately made it my primary writer; the community and plugins quickly rooted it in place. Within months, I was finally able to start making sense of the chaotic mess of creations I’ve built up over the years and began publishing stories through the app. This has proven to be an absolute game-changer for my process—I’ve been dreaming of writing like this since I was a kid, and Obsidian makes it easy! Looking back on the year now, I can say with certainty that I’ve never had a more productive year with my storytelling.
Then NaNoWriMo happened: @EleanorKonik started a thread for the event in the Discord server, and everything else changed. Not all of us wanted the 50,000 word challenge, so we chose our own as it suited us; mine was to write one short story a day from start to finish, with no going back to previous days. As it turns out, spending 30 days writing one story a day gave me a great deal of insight into my process, passions, and priorities—and even an unexpected lesson that’s been reverberating throughout my life ever since.
Thanks to Obsidian, I consider the event my biggest success as a writer to date—and my motivation to continue pushing onward and upward to see where this journey takes me!