Whilst Mirz123 (https://www.deviantart.com/mirz123) takes some time away from deviantART this year, the baton has been passed to me to run NaNoEmo (https://www.deviantart.com/nanoemo) for 2017. As usual, the event starts on the 1st of November, and hopefully this article will help to bring awareness to the event and wake some emoticonists up from hibernation.
What is NaNoEmo?
NaNoEmo (https://www.deviantart.com/nanoemo) is a fun emoticon challenge hosted every November to match up with NaNoWriMo in the literature community. Over the last 5 years we have had a fair number of emoticonists taking part and some fantastic emotes appearing all through the designated month.
The main purpose of the challenge is to encourage emoticonists to make e