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Types of Wrimos
The concept of types of Wrimos or types of Nanoers refers to the humorous psychological classification of Nanowrimo participants. These types are groupings of certain quirky behaviors and writing habits as observed on the Nanowrimo forums and other Nanowrimo-related activities.
Types of Wrimos
Types of Wrimos was an All-Ages Coffee House thread begun in 2007 by junkfoodmonkey. The thread contained humorous personality types of Nanowrimo participants. Other participants identified with these personality types and even added some new classifications of their own.
- Types of Wrimos
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- Ahead-of-Themselves Worrywarts
- Anachronistic Wrimo
- Annoying Wrimo Who's Won Every Year Since 2003 (or earlier if you like) And Finishes Around Week Two With Little Apparent Effort
- By-the-Book Writer
- CareFree Wrimo
- Clueless Wrimo
- Cranky Old Wrimo
- Drama Queens
- Drunk Nanoers
- Easy Peasies
- FanNoWriMo Crowd
- Focused Bastard
- Forum Addict
- Fretters
- Frequently Asking Questioners
- Fun Seeking Wrimos
- Genre Fretters
- Gremlin-Stalked Nanoers
- Grim Wrimo
- Hat Constantly Flung Over the Next Fence Nanoer
- High On Wordcount Nanoers
- High Word Count Just Not in the Novellers
- Hyper Thread-Starting Nanoer
- I Just Joined This Year Wrimo
- It's November TWENTIETH Already? Novelist
- I Would Do NaNoWriMo, But I Want to Put Real Thought into a Story
- Latecomers
- Luddite
- Mary-Sue-phobes
- "My Characters Won't Obey Me" Nanoers
- Non-Participating Participants
- Not in a US Time Zone Type
- Obsessive Researcher Authors
- Oh God What's Happened I Guess I'll Keep Going Anyway Wrimo
- Oh wait, I CAN do this! Wrimo
- Old-School Wrimo
- Overachievers
- Pace Yourself Wrimo
- People Who Have No Real Life, But Still Are Only A Tiny Bit Aheaders
- Pleasantly Surprised Returning Wrimo
- Prolific Wrimo
- Shadow Wrimos
- Shoutout Superstars
- Silent Wrimos
- Slasher
- Slow and Steadier Wrimo or a Tortoise Wrimo
- Social Wrimo
- Speedsters
- Sticky Addicted
- Successful Procrastinator
- Thanksgiving Marathoners
- The Thankful
- Vitriolic Rule Monger
- Voyeuristic Guests
Types of Nanoers
The Two Types of Nanoers thread in the All-Ages Coffee House was started by StarshineMiracle with the assumption that Nanowrimo participants only fell into two categories, type 1 and type 2. StarshineMiracle described the two types as:
Type 1: The perfectionists. These are the people who find it almost impossible to contain their inner editors, who go back and correct spelling and grammar and change words every five minutes, and who frequently have days when they don't write because they want to keep the plot on track because it's important to them that the book makes sense.
Type 2: The people who just write anything, even if it doesn't really make a coherent story, just to get word count. These people ignore the fact that it'll take months to edit and just focus on finishing and getting that 50k or whatever their goal is, and it doesn't worry them that their plot makes absolutely no sense whatsoever.
Wrimos soon adapted the two categories to a decimal system to indicate a mix of these personality traits. Yet others proposed categories outside of the two types as alternatives. Stavechurch explained a type 3 personality as a person "who can actually manage a coherent plot and a massive word count". Blue Spruce put forth a type infinity as someone who embraces the philosophy of "not allowing perfectionism to stop one from writing" yet also allowing the inner editor some control.
