Okay - it's not really that time again yet but... It's time to start thinking about it if you're doing Nano this year .

My 'other mom' posted something on facebook the other day about it and I told her I'd finished the last two years [of course then she wanted to know why they weren't 'publishable' and etc and I ended up admitting that I write fic :p ].

This year, I'm writing an original fiction, I think. Part of me wants to start working on it now and have it done by then . I spent a couple hours last night thinking about it and wrote about 4 pages of notes on it.

We had a pretty good group last year. Who's up for it this year?

Carol

Official NaNoWriMo Site

I'm in! I couldn't exactly have my 6yo do NaNo and not do it myself...

I'm looking forward to it, but I'm a little nervous at the same time.

Amber

I've been thinking about it, though I'm due December 5th, so I'm not sure how I'm going to be feeling in November.

I still have to finish my novel from last year. I haven't got much beyond the 50,000 words, and I need another 50,000 words to finish, so NaNo sounds like a plan.

But getting pregnant this year kind of threw a wrench in everything. I've haven't written in months!

And, of course, about an hour after I posted this, I get a phone call from my [old] boss asking me to teach three classes this fall. This is a Very Good Thing and the money is going to be SO nice but is still going to cut into my writing time .

But it's all good...

Yes, I plan to join you for NaNo again. I plan to have my pre-writing done before I start this year, and we'll see if I can push to write faster this year since I'd really like half or more of this 1st draft done this time.

I really have been out of touch. I haven't the slightest idea what this is about.

Jude

Jude, if you follow the link in Carol's post, you'll find all the info you could need and want there. But basically (from the website):

It's been going for a number of years now, very successfully and quite a lot of FoLCs participate, annually.

LabRat

Hey, Miz Rat, thanks for filling me in.

Jude

The thing I find interesting about it, Jude, is that professional novelists write as fast as NaNoWrimers--at least on the first draft. The ones I know usually write about 2500 words per day, five days a week, and the rate for NaNoWriMo is 1667 words per day, 7 days a week. Both come out to 50,000 words per month.

BTW, if anyone is thinking of planning out their novel (whether fic or original material) before November, there's an interesting series of articles on structuring a novel at Story Fix .

Aye, Sheila, and therein lies the rub, for me anyway. That discipline of writing anything every day is what I have a very hard time with. I have a great admiration for anyone who can do it.

Jude

I never had an issue with writing every day, but the one thing I simply cannot do is just write and keep on writing until I get to the end.

I have to write the first para, then hone it, rewrite it to the nth degree until it is just right before I go on to the next. A compulsion I've never been capable of breaking.

I admire those who can.

LabRat

I have the exact same problem, Labby. Which is one of the reasons why I probably won't ever do NaNoWriMo. Not to mention, I've never done that "write every day" thing--how else do you think it's been months (almost a year, I think, actually, if not more) since the last chapter of PPKM came out?

I'll put my name in as a maybe.

Although I promised myself that I would finally write the first LnC plot bunny that bit me two years ago, life has kinda handed me my backside and I don't know if I'll be able to do it.

<sigh>

Can anyone speed up the harvest or teleport me off of this rock?

I'd love to join but my Muse when on vacation after spurring me to finish Creation as fast as I could type. Since then

I wish she'd come back. I have a story whirling around in my head, just not enough specifics to put fingers to the keyboard. It's (sortof) a Pilot re-write too.

Sigh.

So that's what NaNoWriMo is about! I heard (read) it mentioned, got curious but always forgot to search it (lazy me...). Until now the NaNo part made me think it had something to do with technology... :rolleyes:

I'm enlightened now Still, maybe one day I'll acquire the needed skills to have a try at it. I know it comes with practice and right now the only thing I can accomplish in a full day are about 800 words of non productive writing... (I usually don't like what I write so I end up deleting it every half hour and starting over again and again, until I'm bored and just give up on the whole thing...)

Please post in the "Original Fiction" board - I enjoy the rest of your stuff and I'm sure your original fic would be well worth reading, too.

My DS and DH keep saying they want me to write something original but my muse wants to write about New Krypton... I think my muse will win this year. At least I know I'll like my POV character.

Or close enough to two weeks .

Who else is in?

I'm almost done with BIII and then writing OF for Nano...

It shall have Jazzy, and a broken barca lounger in it...

Well, I want to be in, but I might be too pregnant and hormonal to be writing right now. I hate everything that I wrote last year and want to start completely over. My husband thinks that it's the hormones talking.

I will say that participating in NaNo this year will make that last month of pregnancy fly by. I had so much fun with it last year (and amazed myself by actually finishing 50,000 words) that I really want to do it again this year.

I'll just have to wait and see what November brings. Last year I decided to participate on the spur of the moment and at the last minute.

So...I guess I'll say maybe.

In an effort to kick start my muse (and because of a challenge from a friend), I'll be doing NaNoWriMo this year. I'll be working on a piece of original fiction, but I'll take all the support I can get. I'm hoping this will lead to the creation of some good L and C work later...I've got all these ideas in my head, but my inner perfectionist won't let me write.

I must be insane... but I just signed up!

What have I gotten myself into??? I don't even know yet what to write about. <help!>

On the other hand, I am currently jobless (who would have thought it would be so difficult to find anything in Canada?!). And if I don't do it now, I never will. Maybe it will give me back my self-confidence? Or destroy me?

Natascha

YAY!

Natascha is in!

Trying to talk Kathy and BJ into it in IRC right now .

25 hours or so to go here!

It's not to late you know! Who else is in?!

I'll start a thread for the month tomorrow .
Carol

Why do I have tears in my eyes and feel the need for a hug? I can only plead insanity! LOL

Natascha

{{{{{NATASCHA!!!}}}}}

Insanity is fun!

I don't post here often but I'm registered for NaNo again. I must be crazy. And I decided today to do a totally different book than what I've been plotting. I bought one of those folding project boards and plan to spend tomorrow (today actually) working on a story board and plotting the basics.

If Natascha is insane, then I'm beyond that.

Good luck everyone!

Marilyn,

I still have no clue what to write about. Explored Vancouver today in hopes of inspiration. The city is beautiful and yet I am completely stumped and too tired to think.

So has anybody started writing yet??

Good luck to all the fearless partners in crime!

Natascha