Commenting on the words others have made is always encouraged, as is taking inspiration from them! Even if you're not participating yourself, you're still welcome to leave comments here in the thread, if you'd like. It's been mentioned in previous years that communities of conlangers on various social media platforms also participate in Lexember (in fact, I believe it was started on Twitter), so if you're active elsewhere, you might consider posting your words there, too. However, if you'd like to participate in the challenge, but would prefer not to post the words you come up with anywhere online, that's perfectly fine as well, of course.
I want to emphasize that there is no single "correct" way to participate in Lexember. I don't want anyone who might be interested in Lexember to be discouraged from participating just because they feel that they might not be able to participate every single day or make their posts as detailed as they would like, or that none of their conlangs are "ready" enough. I've tried to address these potential concerns under the spoiler:
In 2018 and 2019, I updated the thread's OP at the start of each week to suggest various "themes" that people might take inspiration from. In 2020, I suggested all of the themes in advance at the start of the month. This year, I've based the five weekly themes on suggestions from prospective participants that were submitted here in the thread over the course of the week leading up to December 1st. The themes are intended to be rather broad and open to interpretation. I've credited the users whose suggestions helped inspire each week's theme below, next to the themes themselves.
Weekly Themes:
- Week 1 (Dec. 1-4): Discourse, Conversation, Communication, Speech, Language (Mándinrùh)
- Week 2 (Dec. 5-11): Home, Household, Office, Workplace, Tools, Appliances, Occupations (Iyionaku)
- Week 3 (Dec. 12-18): Motion, Movement, Touch, Physical Activity (KaiTheHomoSapien, silvercat)
- Week 4 (Dec. 19-25): Culture, Literature, Mythology, Folklore, Music, Writing, Creativity (spanick, silvercat)
- Week 5 (Dec. 26-31): Location, Position, Emotion, Thought, Mental Activity, States of Being (silvercat)