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Get Ready for NoNotWriMo

October 26, 2025 | 2 min read

Welcome, writer-warriors! NoNotWriMo is our take on the classic National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) challenge.

Whether you're a current Freewrite user or new to the Freewrite community, make sure to register here. Participating in NoNotWriMo is absolutely free!

Once you're registered, follow the steps below to get ready before the challenge kicks off on November 1.

1) Decide how you'll be writing.

To take advantage of automatic stats tracking and leaderboard, you'll need to write on a Freewrite device or in our FREE in-browser app, Sprinter.

Don't forget we have an exclusive Freewrite discount for NoNotWriMo participants who want to complete the challenge on a new Freewrite. Register here to get the discount.

2) Create a Postbox account.

Our free platform, Postbox, will automatically keep track of your word count in November.

👉 If you already have a Postbox account, you can skip ahead to Step 3.

In order to track your word count and participate in the community-favorite leaderboard, you'll need to create a Postbox account. There are several ways to do this:

  1. Purchase a Freewrite. We even have an exclusive NoNotWriMo discount for participants. Make sure to register here for access to the discount. When you set up your new Freewrite, you'll be guided through the process of creating a Postbox account.
  2. Use our free in-browser app, SprinterSimply begin writing in Sprinter and the first time you hit "save," you'll be prompted to set up your Postbox account.

3) Create your Postbox Profile.

In order to participate in the leaderboard, you'll need to set up a public Postbox Profile.  

👉 If you already have a Postbox Profile, make sure it is set to "public" and continue to Step 4.

If you haven't set up your Postbox Profile yet, go to Postbox.GetFreewrite.com and log in to your new Postbox account. Navigate to the "My Account" page and fill out the "Pen Name" field, along with any other info you'd like to add.

Set your profile to public by selecting "Everyone (public)."

4) Join the leaderboard.

Race your fellow writers to the 50K finish line and watch your word count soar by opting in to the leaderboard.

To opt in, click here and hit the red “JOIN” button.
 
The leaderboard is automatic. After you opt in, all work written on your Freewrite devices or in Sprinter and synced to Postbox in November will automatically update your word count and your place on the leaderboard.
 
At the end of November, one participant will be chosen at random to win a special prize!

5) Keep up the momentum with live writing sprints.

Throughout the month, we'll send check-ins and invites to live community writing sprints with the Freewrite team and special guests. Make sure you're registered to receive these invites!

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A new year means a whole new crop of work is entering the public domain. And that means endless opportunities for retellings, spoofs, adaptations, and fan fiction.

December 30, 2025 3 min read

It’s Freewrite’s favorite time of year. When dictionaries around the world examine language use of the previous year and select a “Word of the Year.”

Of course, there are many different dictionaries in use in the English language, and they all have different ideas about what word was the most influential or saw the most growth in the previous year. They individually review new slang and culturally relevant vocabulary, examine spikes or dips in usage, and pour over internet trend data.

Let’s see what some of the biggest dictionaries decided for 2025. And read to the end for a chance to submit your own Word of the Year — and win a Freewrite gift card.

[SUBMIT YOUR WORD OF THE YEAR]


Merriam-Webster: "slop"

Merriam-Webster chose "slop" as its Word of the Year for 2025 to describe "all that stuff dumped on our screens, captured in just four letters."

The dictionary lists "absurd videos, off-kilter advertising images, cheesy propaganda, fake news that looks pretty real, junky AI-written books, 'workslop' reports that waste coworkers’ time … and lots of talking cats" as examples of slop.

The original sense of the word "slop" from the 1700s was “soft mud” and eventually evolved to mean "food waste" and "rubbish." 2025 linked the term to AI, and the rest is history.

Honorable mentions: conclave, gerrymander, touch grass, performative, tariff, 67.

Dictionary.com: "67"

The team at Dictionary.com likes to pick a word that serves as “a linguistic time capsule, reflecting social trends and global events that defined the year.”

For 2025, they decided that “word” was actually a number. Or two numbers, to be exact.

If you’re an old, like me, and don’t know many school-age children, you may not have heard “67” in use. (Note that this is not “sixty-seven,” but “six, seven.”)

Dictionary.com claims the origin of “67” is a song called “Doot Doot (6 7)” by Skrilla, quickly made infamous by viral TikTok videos, most notably featuring a child who will for the rest of his life be known as the “6-7 Kid.” But according to my nine-year-old cousin, the origins of something so mystical can’t ever truly be known.

(My third grade expert also demonstrated the accompanying signature hand gesture, where you place both hands palms up and alternately move up and down.)

And if you happen to find yourself in a fourth-grade classroom, watch your mouth, because there’s a good chance this term has been banned for the teacher’s sanity.

Annoyed yet? Don’t be. As Dictionary.com points out, 6-7 is a rather delightful example at how fast language can develop as a new generation joins the conversation.

Dictionary.com honorable mentions: agentic, aura farming, broligarchy, clanker, Gen Z stare, kiss cam, overtourism, tariff, tradwife.

Oxford Dictionary: "rage bait"

With input from more than 30,000 users and expert analysis, Oxford Dictionary chose "rage bait" for their word of the year.

Specifically, the dictionary pointed to 2025’s news cycle, online manipulation tactics, and growing awareness of where we spend our time and attention online.

While closely paralleling its etymological cousin "clickbait," rage bait more specifically denotes content that evokes anger, discord, or polarization.

Oxford's experts report that use of the term has tripled in the last 12 months.

Oxford Dictionary's honorable mentions:aura farming, biohack.

Cambridge Dictionary: "parasocial"

The Cambridge Dictionary examined a sustained trend of increased searches to choose "parasocial" as its Word of the Year.

Believe it or not, this term was coined by sociologists in 1956, combining “social” with the Greek-derived prefix para-, which in this case means “similar to or parallel to, but separate from.”

But interest in and use of the term exploded this year, finally moving from a mainly academic context to the mainstream.

Cambridge Dictionary's honorable mentions: slop, delulu, skibidi, tradwife

Freewrite: TBD

This year, the Freewrite Fam is picking our own Word of the Year.

Click below to submit what you think the Word of 2025 should be, and we'll pick one submission to receive a Freewrite gift card.

[SUBMIT HERE] 

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