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Theme (writing)

:This article discusses the writing term. For other uses, see Theme.
A theme is a broad idea, moral, or message, of an essay, paragraph, movie, or a book. The message may be about life, society, or human nature. Themes often explore timeless and universal ideas and may be implied rather than stated explicitly. Along with plot, character, setting, and style, theme is considered one of the fundamental components of fiction.
==Motif==
In narrative, a motif is any recurring element that has symbolic significance in a story. Through its repetition, a motif can help produce other narrative (or literary) aspects such as theme or mood.
In his play Macbeth, Shakespeare uses a variety of narrative elements to create many different motifs. Imagistic references to blood and water are continually repeated. The phrase "fair is foul, and foul is fair" is echoed at many points in the play, a combination that mixes the concepts of good and evil. The play also features the central motif of the washing of hands, one that combines both verbal images and the movement of the actors.
==Moral==
A moral (from Latin morālis) is a message conveyed or a lesson to be learned from a story or event. The moral may be left to the hearer, reader or viewer to determine for themselves, or may be explicitly encapsulated in a maxim. As an example of the latter, at the end of Aesop's fable of the Tortoise and the Hare, in which the plodding and determined tortoise wins a race against the much-faster yet extremely arrogant hare, the stated moral is "slow and steady wins the race". However, other morals can often be taken from the story itself; for instance, that "arrogance or overconfidence in one's abilities may lead to failure or the loss of an event, race, or contest".
Category:Writing terms
Themes (forum)

:This article discusses the Themes NaNoWriMo forum. For other uses, see Theme.
Themes is a NaNoWriMo forum for posting NaNoWriMo forum themes and voting on them. The forum was created in September 2019 when the transition to Discourse supported custom themes, and the NaNoWriMo staff opened custom theme development to Wrimos.
Wrimos who have created a custom theme can post them to this forum. They must post the theme to Github or Gitlab so NaNoWriMo staff can view it and so the Wrimo can keep the theme updated. Wrimos who have not created a theme can vote on Wrimo-created themes by clicking the Vote button at the top of the respective thread.
Issues with themes can also be reported here. Since NaNo staff did not create most of the themes, they can't fix the issues directly. Only the theme creator can do that. They can disable the theme until it is fixed.
==Forum Description==
"If you are familiar with Discourse, or technically savvy, YOU can actually create themes, and have them installed here! In fact, if you do so... you'll get a shiny badge!" (September 2019-present)
==Topics and Threads==
Assorted threads for themes and voting on them
==Moderators==
===Present===
The global moderators (September 2019-present)
===Past===
See the above list of global moderators for any past moderators
==External Links==
Themes forum
Category:NaNoWriMo forums
This is Going Better Than I Hoped

This Is Going Better Than I Hoped (formerly This is Going Better Than I'd Hoped until September 2019) is a forum where Wrimos share in the celebrations and triumphs before, during, and after the event. It lives within the Reaching 50K forum.
This Is Going Better Than I Hoped is one of the forums that once contained Shoutouts. Interestingly, it consistently averages fewer threads and posts than its polar opposite forum, NaNoWriMo Ate My Soul, likely because people really like to complain.
This is Going Better Than I'd Hoped is one of the original forums created in 2002 when the forums came to be. In years past, the forum was known as "This is Working Far Better Than I Had Hoped" and "This is Going Better Than I Expected". It lived in the Life During NaNo section until September 2019.
== Forum Description == 
"Unexpected success stories from the frantic novel-writing front." (2002-September 2019)
"Welcome to success! When everything goes right, these are uplifting stories from the frantic novel-writing front." (September 2019-present)
==Popular threads==
* The Overachiever thread (until 2013 when Beyond 50k was born)
== Moderators == 
=== Current Moderators ===
* Heather Dudley (2008-present)
* The global moderators (September 2019-present)
=== Former Moderators ===
* Cybele May (2004-2007)
* Star Kitten (2008-2009)
* Cacrocks1 (2008-2010)
* PearlRose (2010)
* artofcheatery (2011-2012)
* Marauders Girl (2011-2016)
* Nikko-chan (October 2018-September 2019)
== External Links ==
* This is Going Better Than I Hoped Forum
Category: NaNoWriMo forums
Tim Kim

Tim Kim is the current Program Director at National Novel Writing Month.
He first joined NaNoWriMo in 2007 as a participant before interning at NaNoWriMo for the 2009 event and staying through Script Frenzy 2010. He joined the NaNoWriMo team in 2011 when Tupelo Hassman stepped down to devote herself to her soon-to-be published novel girlchild. Paige Knorr. "Presenting Tim Kim." OLL Blog post. 26 September 2011. Retrieved 29 June 2012. http://blog.lettersandlight.org/post/10690695975. At some point in 2012 Tim's title changed from Office Captain to Managing Editor, and in 2013 it changed to Editorial Director before changing to its present Director of Communications. During Rebecca Stern's leave of absense in 2016, Tim Kim served as Interim Program Director, a position he took on permanently in early 2017.
Tim coordinated 30 Covers, 30 Days in 2009 and 2011. When Tim joined the NaNo staff as office captain, he admitted that his badge of shame was never having finished NaNoWriMo in his four years of participating. He finally won in 2011. 
Tim graduated from UCSD with a degree in literature. Before heading to the Bay Area, he worked a variety of jobs, including assisting a studio executive and chaperoning David Beckham's children. He has also worked with San Francisco magazine, WIRED magazine and CONDÈ Nast.NaNoWriMo staff page. Retrieved 11 October 2011. http://www.nanowrimo.org/staff He was also the managing editor of Once Magazine. Tim also exhibits some guitar playing ability as shown in his October 2012 NaNoVideo "Donate Maybe", a parody of "Call Me Maybe" 
==References==
==External Links==
* Tim's NaNoWriMo profile
* NaNoWriMo blog posts by Tim
Category:OLL staff
Time Finder

The Time Finder is Chris Baty's answer to one frequently asked question by Wrimos.
I'm so busy. How on earth am I going to find time to do NaNoWriMo? -Busy Wrimos all over the world
Almost everyone has something to do in November, and the Time Finder is designed for those who don't know what parts of their lives are most obvious to cut in November. Introduced in No Plot? No Problem!, the Time Finder is designed to give Wrimos a better picture of their everyday lives, from the times they're actually working to the three hours a day they spend on the NaNoWriMo forums. Necessary items for the Time Finder include writing utensils in three different colors, paper, and a few days of your life to document. The more days that you're documenting, the better; ideally, you will activate the Time Finder over the course of an entire week.
==How to use the Time Finder==
# Live your day as usual.
# Each day before you go to bed, write down your daily activities and the amount of time spent on each. The more specific, the better.
# Have a treat and go to bed. Including sleep in the Time Finder is necessary as you will need to spend some time sleeping during November.
# At the end of your Time Finder period, get out your writing utensils and go to town.
# Choose one color to mark all activities that you must do or risk unemployment, homelessness, failing of classes, death, and/or other highly undesirable circumstances. Red is a good color. Example activities: working, going to school/college, required sports/music practice & events, studying, traveling to and from work or school, paying bills, eating, sleeping (first 6 hours), essential hygiene (ex. showering), and drinking water.
# Choose another color to mark all activities that are highly desirable to you, but can still be given up for an entire month if necessary. Example activities: socializing with friends, professional events, optional sports/music practice & events, religious services, sleeping (beyond 6 hours), non-essential hygiene (ex. polishing nails, shaving), and any avoidable exercising.
# Use your third color to mark all nonessential items: the things you could give up for a month without missing anything major. Example activities: Internet surfing, the NaNoWriMo forums, other forums/websites you regularly visit, video games, sitting around deciding what to do next, sleeping (beyond 9 hours), trivial repetition of activities, and TV.
# Examine the time spent on your nonessential items. If you have around two hours or so a day in that color, you're ready to go. Most people do. If you spend less than two hours a day on nonessential items, then begin examining the other areas of your life for sneaky ways to write your novel. Examples include taking a shorter shower, limiting sleep to six hours, etc.
Note for the young ones: The time finder is a great tool to use when trying to find a way to do NaNo without affecting the important things in life! Some people find that with effective time finder use, school grades can actually increase during NaNo!
Category:NaNoWriMo terms
Timmy

Timmy is an IRC bot that times word wars. He can be found primarily on ChatNaNo.
Timmy was originally written in PHP by MysteriousAges in 2008. The next year Timmy was ported to Java. Utah::Elsewhere ML utoxin started helping out with Timmy in 2010, cleaning up the codebase and adding new functionality. In 2012, utoxin ported Timmy to PircBotX and added many more advanced features.
Some of Timmy's capabilities include timing wars, getting objects for people, and defenestration. He is known to do silly things such as throw fridges when unoccupied. Timmy also attempts to write a novel every year and is quite excited if someone wants to help him. He has his own Twitter account and will !follow anyone who asks nicely.
Timmy is also the Municipal Liaison Velociraptor Safety Association (MLVSA) Representative for ChatNaNo. All velociraptor sightings should be reported to him immediately.
See also BattleJesus
==External Links==
* Timmy's source code at Github
* Timmy on Twitter
* Timmy on NaNoWriMo
Category:Other terms
Category:Creations inspired by NaNoWriMo
Tom Selleck

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Tom Selleck is an American actor and film producer. He has appeared in TV shows such as Magnum, P.I., Friends, and Las Vegas. He also has an iconic mustache.
The Office of Letters and Light has a painting of Selleck, contributed to the office by Lindsey Grant. In their first office the painting hung on the wall next to Lindsey's desk. Lindsey acknowledged the painting in the "Joining a NaNoWriMo region" NaNoVideo episode, in which she ends the video to set up Selleck's regional affiliation. . After the OLL staff moved to a new office in Berkeley in May 2010, intern Sarah Mackey included the painting of Selleck in her tour of the new office .
The painting currently hangs above the first floor and is visible from the first floor.
Tom's mustache was recognized in the July 2012 Summer Fundraising Drive, which offered trading cards designed by Len Peralta for those who donated at least $50. Three packages included a golden mustaches that were redeemable for grand prizes.
==See Also==
Tom Selleck on Wikipedia
Category:The Office of Letters and Light
Torch-Relay-Challenge

The Torch-Relay-Challenge is a collaborative writing challenge. It consists of several consecutive one hour word sprints done by different wrimos, each writing on their own NaNo novel. It is usually done as a joint activity of cabins or regions.
==History==
The Torch-Relay-Challenge was first created during the Camp NaNo 2020. Since svenja, one of the participants from the first cabin-based torch-relay-challenge, was the ML of Region/Europe/Germany she deciced to repeat this challenge during November on the weekend 11/07-11/08. The ML of Region/Canada/ON/Ottawa independently organized a variant of this challenge which lasted from 11/01 until 11/07 -- but was later on extended 11/08.
By popular request of members of the Europe::Germany region to do this challenge as a friendly competition against another region, ML svenja posted an invitation to this challenge in the writing challenges forum and Region/Europe/Austria, Region/Europe/Poland, Willamette Valley Region joined in as well. Canada::Ottawa extended their challenge over the weekend as well.
==Rules==
(as posted by svenja)
Cabin/Region members pass the torch/pen by writing in one hour “legs” continuously.
* Try to carry the torch for a whole day. Can you do 12 hours? Can you make it to 20? Or can you keep going for a whole 24-hour-period?
* A person can do multiple legs, including consecutive ones.
* Each person must write for a full hour (bathroom breaks only) and must actually pass off to the next person who is ready to go and write for the next hour. Find your own ritualistic phrase for the passing. Use the fire emoji. Or find a picture of a torch to post with every passing…
* The writers passing the torch must both post within five minutes of each other and within five minutes of the full hour or the torch will be considered dropped.
* If the “torch” gets dropped, that ends your marathon. If the torch cannot be passed the person who was writing can decide to write for another full hour (no passing off in the middle of the hour).
* If you drop your torch early on, the cabin is allowed start over – but of course that means none of the hours you had before the torch dropped will count.
* Post your results for total hours AND total words written during those hours.
Note, when planning your relay, it is OK to have backup people, pinch hitters, etc., planned in and standing by. The challenge is to successfully carry the torch of writing as far as you can, not to stick to your original schedule.
==Organization==
Many regions used spreadsheets, e.g. on Google docs, to plan in advance who takes over which time slots. Regional forum threads or cabin chat are used to document the passing of the torch/baton.
==Variations==
* Flexible instead of fixed length legs are an option. Canada::Ottawa used this in their variant.
* A precursor variant exists in this Word crawl/Camp Crawl, where the legs are three-digit-challenges instead of time based challenges.
* Since graveyard slots (i.e. 3-4 am, 4-5 am and 5-6 am slots) are often hard to fill and very unpopular, two regions in very different timezones teaming up for this challenge might be an option.
Trading card

A trading card is a card, often with an image of a subject of interest on the front and interesting facts about the subject on the back, that may be traded in order to collect all the cards in a set.
In 2012 the Office of Letters and Light held the 2012 Summer Fundraising Drive and gave donors a pack of three trading cards for every $50 donated. 
Len Peralta drew the art on the cards, and the cards were designed by Graham Dobson.
==Trading Cards==
* Chris Baty
* Traveling Shovel of Death
* Mr. Ian Woon
* Guilt Monkey
* Plot bunny
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==Want to swap trading cards? forum==
Want to swap trading cards? was a NaNoWriMo forum created in 2012. Its purpose was to let Wrimos swap trading cards from the 2012 Summer Fundraising Drive.
Due to the limited nature of the trading cards, this forum did not return in 2013. Heather Dudley was its only moderator.
===Forum description===
Have you gotten your NaNo Trading Cards, but are missing the one card you must have? Two Chris Batys, but you just have to have a Traveling Shovel of Death? Mix and match here, and collect them all! 
Category:NaNoWriMo termsCategory:Former NaNoWriMo forums
Trebuchet Club

The Trebuchet Club is a group of Wrimos who include a trebuchet in their novels. It began in 2006 when LustForLike posted to the NaNoWriMo forums and stated that a trebuchet was an overlooked thing that improves a novel . The club grew in popularity, with the thread gaining 328 posts and Wrimos declaring their membership in their signatures. The Trebuchet Club has returned every year since, with different Wrimos starting the thread in 2008, 2009, and 2010.
==External Links==
* The Trebuchet Club...It's back - forum
Category:NaNoWriMo terms
Tupelo Hassman

Tupelo Hassman was the Office of Letters and Light's office manager (or Office Captain) until October 2011. She joined the OLL team in February 2010 after participating in NaNoWriMo since 2003 and assisting the shipping captain Bradford Earle in 2009. She has also served on the editorial board of the Young Writers Program editorial board since 2010. 
Tupelo holds a BA in English--Creative Writing from the University of Southern California and an MFA in fiction from Columbia University. While working at OLL she also taught English composition long-distance. Her work has been published in a number of literary journals, and her first novel, girlchild, was published February 2012.girlchild Website. Accessed 11 October 2011. http://tupelohassman.com/girlchild.html Her second novel, gods with a little g, came out in 2019.
Tupelo wrote a pep talk for NaNoWriMo 2012.
Her name comes from the Van Morrison song "Tupelo Honey". Yes, she has seen Van Morrison play that song live.
==References==
==External Links==
*Interview with Tupelo on the OLL blog
*Tupelo's author page on the OLL blog
*Tupelo's Website
Category:OLL staff
Turkzilla

Turkzilla is a NaNoWriMo community-run event that takes place from the Wednesday before American Thanksgiving to the following Sunday. It was founded in 2015 by USA :: California :: Elsewhere MLs.
The original goal was to write 20,000 words over the course of five days to catch up on the 50,000 words goal. Over the years, Turkzilla evolved to a long series of word sprints, as a late Turkzilla would leave on-track writers with fewer than 20,000 words left to write and some Wrimos aren't interested in overachieving.
Winnie ran the sprints in 2020, allowing the sprints to take place across multiple regional Discord servers. 
==External Links==
* California :: Elsewhere regional message mentioning Turkzilla in 2015
* Turkzilla 2019 thread in the Los Angeles forum
* Turkzilla feedback request thread, August 2019
Category:NaNoWriMo terms
Typewriter Brigade

The Typewriter Brigade is a group of Wrimos who write their novels with a typewriter. As computers have become commonplace, typewriters have become a dying breed, making the novelists in the Typewriter Brigade a particularly interesting bunch. Wrimos may join the Typewriter Brigade if they choose to write their novel, in whole or in part, on a typewriter, either in part or in whole. Members of the Brigade use the Luddite clause for the part of the novel they type on a typewriter.
Wrimos have used the typewriter as a noveling device since 2003 and likely earlier, and threads have popped up on the NaNo Technology forum asking questions about typewriters and NaNoing. It wasn't until 2007 that the Typewriter Brigade began. In the NaNo Technology forum, DuffyMoon declared their intention of writing that year's novel on a typewriter and wanting some support from fellow typewriter usersDuffyMoon et al. "Typewriter Brigade." NaNoWriMo forum post. 2 October 2007. Other writers immediately chimed in, and the Typewriter Brigade was born. The Brigade returned over the next two years, and one of the members of the Brigade was even featured on the Wrimo Report for their use of a typewriter for NaNoing.
From Theanab
2011 will live forever, at least in my mind, as the first "Year of the Rhino." It's all Mike's (MPClemens) fault--he fed NaNoWriMo into the Dragon (dication software) and out came NaNo Rhino--and there was no stopping this lovely beast. All Rhino Madness has been preserved in the Flickr group, linked below. Scroll down for lolz and editor nomming rhinos!
As of October 2012, the Brigade is still going strong. The 2011 boards have been archived, at least to a point, and we're waiting on the Forum Wipe to retake our place at the top of the board!
The Typewriter Brigade lives on to this day in the NaNo Technology forum, where it is the main thread for Wrimos who write with a typewriter. (Yup, totally just made this redundant.)
==References==
==External Links==
*The Typewriter Brigade, 2012
*The Typewriter Brigade's Flickr pool
Category:NaNoWriMo forum threads
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University

University is a NaNoWriMo forum for Wrimos currently in college or university to discuss noveling and university life. It was created in 2010 and named NaNo University: Students as part of the NaNo University program. 
Its name became NaNo University in 2012 before gaining its current name in 2019. The forum lives within the Finding Your Crew forum.
==Forum Description==
"Participating in NaNoWriMo and going to college or university at the same time? This forum is for college and university students to talk, mingle, and commiserate." (2010-2014)
"College life presents its own challenges to the active novelist. Find tips and tricks for surviving lectures while meeting your word count." (2015-present)
After 2012, this forum was renamed to "NaNo University" and does not reference the official program.
==Topics and Threads==
* Note: region-specific threads belong in the appropriate Regional Lounge, not in the University forum
* Threads for individual majors and programs, along with year of university (first-year, sophomore...)
* A thread for finding writing buddies
==Moderators==
===Present===
* Heather Dudley (2010-present)
* The global moderators (September 2019-present)
===Past===
* Nora Coon in 2010
*Paige Knorr in 2011
* Andrea Ellickson in 2012
* moonlightskymist (2015-2016)
* AlainaintheSky (2015-September 2018)
* sv (OCtober 2018-September 2019)
* VP_Benni (October 2018-September 2019)
==External Links==
University forum
Category:NaNoWriMo forums