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# Introducing Untitled
- URL: https://werd.io/introducing-untitled/
- Published: 2021-10-31T19:04:38.000Z
- Updated: 2021-10-31T19:04:38.000Z
- Author: Ben Werdmuller
- Tags: #Import 2025-06-13 09:24

This year, in conjunction with [National Novel Writing Month](https://nanowrimo.org), I’m kicking off my own writing project, [Untitled](https://untitled.werd.io).

Untitled is a serial novel that will be written to coincide with NaNoWriMo’s goals, but is likely to carry on beyond that limit. It’s also designed in such a way that it’s not the end of the world if I *don’t* hit 50,000 words in November. I’d rather explore ideas than chug frantically towards an arbitrary word goal.

I designed a [simple site around it](https://untitled.werd.io). I can write new chapters in markdown, and they’ll be rendered in the website with full navigation, as well as added to an RSS feed. Additionally, the RSS feed powers a mailing list, in case anyone wants to follow along via email.

The site framework is written in [Next.js](https://nextjs.org/), which allows you to easily write server-side React-based sites. That also allowed me to use Node projects like [marked](https://marked.js.org/) and [feed](https://github.com/jpmonette/feed) to easily spin up site components. [You can check out how I’ve strung it together over on GitHub](https://github.com/benwerd/untitled).

The site is hosted on [Vercel’s free tier](https://vercel.com/), which will rebuild and deploy the site every time I merge a commit to the `main` branch. So once I start writing, all I need to do is commit and save (which I could even do using GitHub’s web interface), and the new chapters will be public. In common with my blog, I use [iA Writer](https://ia.net/writer) to write all my markdown pieces.

Finally, as always, my feed-to-email pipeline is powered by [ConvertKit](https://convertkit.com/). Unlike my blog, entries will be emailed to subscribers 30 minutes after publication.

And that’s it. What is the story? How will it progress? You’ll just have to [follow along and see](https://untitled.werd.io).