To undo a curse, a dying swan fairy must prevent the flesh-eating monsters within a hidden realm from being unleashed on humans. |⟡. Updates every 1, 3, & 5 Saturday .˚⟡ ࿐ Ugly. Cursed. Diseased. With mottled skin and ongoing illness, Elowen is shunned by her village and taunted by the local children, despite her attempts to appear like them. Still, she dreams that one day they will accept her as their own - that is, until she is kicked out of their community into the eerie forest outside her home. With a curse weaved over her heart, death is almost certain for Elowen. After learning her mother was one of the swan fae, she learns that she is slowly being poisoned by the air in the human realm. She must return to the Shaded Realm twice a day to remain healthy. But monstrous creatures lurk in this hidden realm with a taste for both fairy and human flesh. And they seem to have found a way to enter the human realm. It isn't enough for Elowen to discover the cause of the increasingly fragile border between realms. She must find a way to defeat the monsters themselves. ✨️Cover by @ToWolfKin

Caroline, a video game streamer that turned to a new game after her last one, Massacre à l'Alcool, closed, was challenged on a stream to write a hockey romance book in November, and to write the book on air. She dives headlong into reading hockey romance books before deciding on the challenge issued by her faithful subscriber, not suspecting that memories of her hockey-playing days are about to resurface, nor that she will take her viewers into the inner workings of the hockey world... #1 in transaction (November 22, 2024) 2024 NaNoWriMo Winner

Imélie, a former top female collegiate quiz bowler, now finds herself longing for her undergraduate days as she works as a software engineer; she is given the opportunity to relive her quiz bowl glory days when offered a promotion at work, by acting as a player-coach on her old collegiate team, the Tulane Green Wave. Her drive to rebuild the Green Wave's quiz bowl program at any cost forces her to face her inner demons as well as her own past, while, as the Green Wave's season shows sign of promise under her leadership, her players are pushed to the edge. Will the Green Wave's quiz bowl program survive her tenure as a coach? Will she overcome her inner demons holding her, and with it, the Green Wave quiz bowl program back?

Anna, a psychologist working with gifted youth and other high achievers, takes to writing indie literature since she was disillusioned with what she managed to read. She decides to enter NaNoWriMo for the first time in her life. But little did she know was that her writing process during NaNoWriMo forces her to reconnect with her past...

Florence, a young, untenured French teacher in southwest Louisiana, grows unsatisfied with the direction Venomous Agendas High is taking, and must juggle the realities of her own work in addition to saving VA's debate team from closure as she tries to get tenured. In addition, she faces complaints from students and parents as it relates to her courses. Trigger warnings: mentions of sex (but no sexually explicit scenes) and swearing in French (sparsely) This is both my NaNo for 2023 as well as November-December's entry for the 8 Chapter Challenge.