[NaNoWriMo] GO GO GO

Quoth

Hey, so, I heard you want to write a novel?



Thirty days. 50,000 words. Put up or shut up.

http://www.nanowrimo.org/

NaNo Forums: http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums
NaNo Forums - Writing 101: http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/writing-101
The Snowflake Method: http://www.advancedfictionwriting.com/art/snowflake.php
Worldbuilding Questions: http://www.sfwa.org/2009/08/fantasy-worldbuilding-questions/
The Art of Dramatic Writing - Premise: http://www.writerswrite.com/fiction/egri.htm
Jim Butcher - Story Skeletons: http://jimbutcher.livejournal.com/1308.html

VanityPants

Yaaaay. I just got an email from the NaNo people about the new swag they have for sale and got a little excited that it's almost November!

Can we talk about how cool these things are? I also really dig the new 2012 Venn Diagram shirt they're selling.

And I guess I should check if there's still going to be a NaNo group in my city this year. A few months ago I got an email that the two people running it for the past 4 years (or something) were stepping down and looking for someone to take their place. Uh. Hope someone did.

Quoth

No one so far, sorry. Doesn't mean you can't meet up with people, rub elbows, hob some nobs, etc.

Anyone ready to start planning? I've got a main character and some plots, but I'm still fumbling around for more.

tapeslinger

Yay!

I am doing this thing on Writing.Com this year: NaNo Prep Challenge

I don't think I am going to do the NYC group this year... I always feel a little like an outsider and it's a bit cliquey. I may see if there's anyone in the Jersey City area, but it is challenging to find local people who are available the same times as you are.

Amalia

My NEW region is without a ML this year too, but I might conquer THE DRIVING and do some organizing of peoples. Maybe it will help me to not write like a crazy person and take it easy this year. Also, I feel like I need to put down some writerly ROOTS in my new region, since I am planning on staying here for a while.

ETA: planning on Herakles -- can't decide if I want to spell it Herakles or Heracles yet. October will be Stuff My Brain With All The Primary Sources month.

Quoth

I am the ML again. Going to do as I did last year and solicit assistants for far-off write-ins. I can hopefully manage more than one a week but we'll see. Between workload and kid, it may not be feasible.

I want to at least get halfway this year, work my way back up to finishing slowly. I'm doing related short stories instead of a straight novel so we'll see how it goes.

VanityPants

I think I'll be using NaNo this year to finally get a start on that Norse/Viking inspired book I've been wanting to write forever.

I guess maybe I'll have to try to pick up the reins if no one else in this region does. Ugh. I hate planning things, though, so I don't know.

Amalia

VP, all you have to do is say "Hey, Let's have a write in HERE at THIS TIME. Be there or be square!" that's it.

VanityPants

That's true! I guess the past MLs just did a lot more, so I'd feel pressed to keep up to their standard. They usually booked rooms at the library here and they even had a fundraiser for NaNo at a local ice cream place, in addition to having end of the month celebrations and stuff.

They were preeeetty awesome.

Amalia

I don't think you need to stress as a non-official person just trying to get people together. The people who can show up and want to, will, and the people who don't care, won't. You could even set up a recurring write-in thing, where every week on x day at y time, you meet at z place and just write.

Magell

I need to get a lap top so I can do write-ins, or possibly summon the energy to organize them myself. I'll have to settle for virtual write-ins with the chat room.

VanityPants

Agggh. I just realized I don't even have a laptop to do write-ins now. My netbook crapped out since last NaNo.

Oh well, writing by hand is... fun!

Magell

Unless you have to make it mesh with the rest of your story that's on a computer.

And doing a word count by hand blows.

Amalia

The answer is the Alphasmart, VeeP! http://www.neo-direct.com/default.aspx

VanityPants

Woah, that IS pretty cool.

How have I never heard of that thing before. Do you have one, Amalia?

Amalia

I do not, but my sister used one when she was in high school for her lab reports, etc. They are pretty absolutely basic and I would guess, they also keep down the "going back to reread" time loss, since I would not want to scroll through that tiny screen!

chiasaur11

I remember those things from elementary school.

Liked using 'em. Seemed so high tech at the time. Now? Less so.

Quoth

If any of you have an iPhone, I just grabbed an app called A Novel Idea. It's pretty okay so far for organizing and whatnot.

Wank

I'm totes writing a Clockwork sequel. Why not.

chiasaur11

Well, got a concept. On the other hand, I have half a dozen other things going on that could interfere.

Might as well try.

Amalia

I have almost convinced my cousin to participate in Nano with me this year. ALMOST. He's seriously considering it!

Magell

Tell him how awesome sprints in the IRC are. Because, seriously, they are awesome and I love them.

tapeslinger

I would be up for some sprint group shenanigans as well

Quoth

The IRC shall once again be populated. Anyone want to get in there now and do some planning?

CheesecakeRecipe

Doing this again, this will make the third NaNo activity I've participated in. Hopefully I can go 3 for 3!

Join IRC foos, we gotta get plotting and scheming.

ElJeffe

Wank wrote: »

I'm totes writing a Clockwork sequel. Why not.

Cool. I will read it!

My NaNo resolution is to have finished the short story I've been nursing and then rewrite another short I did some time back and finish the summary for the novel I wrote last NaNo. And then savor vicariously all the novels that you people write who have a lot more time than me. *sadface*

Quoth

ElJeffe wrote: »

Wank wrote: »

I'm totes writing a Clockwork sequel. Why not.

Cool. I will read it!

My NaNo resolution is to have finished the short story I've been nursing and then rewrite another short I did some time back and finish the summary for the novel I wrote last NaNo. And then savor vicariously all the novels that you people write who have a lot more time than me. *sadface*

Ahaha

AHAHAHA

VanityPants

ElJeffe

Quoth wrote: »

ElJeffe wrote: »

Wank wrote: »

I'm totes writing a Clockwork sequel. Why not.

Cool. I will read it!

My NaNo resolution is to have finished the short story I've been nursing and then rewrite another short I did some time back and finish the summary for the novel I wrote last NaNo. And then savor vicariously all the novels that you people write who have a lot more time than me. *sadface*

Ahaha

AHAHAHA

Pardon.

Successfully utilize more time to write than me.

Because right now the idea of me NaNo-ing fills me with *shnerk*.

Quoth

New Nano site is live.

Amalia

awwww yeah! First to post in my new region forum!

Anzekay

I hit 40K words a number of years ago in my first Nano, but sort of petered about at the end.

Going to give it another go this year, however, since I had a nice little premise spring to mind a month or so ago.

Fearghaill

alright, Fearghaill tries to NaNo and stick with it past a week before getting discouraged/distracted/lazy and dropping out, take 4.

I am ready for it this time. Work was giving away older laptops we weren't using anymore in exchange for donations to charity, and I picked one up. It will have nothing but a word processor installed, and I'm unhooking the wireless adapter. I've moved into a new house, and I've got a room in which there is no TV/gaming computer/other sources of distraction in which I can lock myself to write. Just a desk, bookshelves, and an elliptical bike so that if I need to get my head clear I can take a break doing that and still think about the story.

Bring. It. On.

Dalboz

I came up with my idea for this year's NaNo project about a week or two ago. I'm not doing a novel. Instead, I'm doing 50K words worth of short stories in a collection called "Tales of the Space Buddha," which will give a sci-fi/fantasy/satirical twist on each major world religion. I got the idea after seeing this article.

Oh, yeah, we should probably remind everyone where we are on the NaNo site to buddy up. I'm also Dalboz on NaNoWriMo.

Amalia

The winner's shirt, guys. I love it, but ordering it in advance of November? I feel like it will be a JINX! If I order the shirt, I will FAIL!

VanityPants

That is the first winners shirt in the past two years that I've actually LIKED!

It does seem weird that they put it up now, though. Didn't they used to reveal it only when the month was over?

Amalia

They are doing a special sale just this first half of October, then taking it down again, according to the email.

Cheeseliker

Need to finish editing my nano from last year so I can write the sequel for this year. Editing suuuuuuucks. Look forward to see you on the irc's for word sprints.

Amalia

Well. I guess I am using October to query instead of for reading myths. Maybe just the FIRST half of October? I seem to recall that I failed to read any Herc myths last October as well, which ultimately led to my working on Orc Romance instead of Herc last year.

chiasaur11

Second thoughts kicking in already. Well, mainly laptop, keyboard acting up, but thoughts came into play.

Don't think I'll do it this year. It's not sparking, got a dozen other things I'm trying to work on, and I know I can do it, which takes away a lot of my energy for these things. Nothing to prove to myself.

And I know I can't quit, won't quit once I start. I can only back out before I sign up.

So, uh... luck to everyone who has more drive for this than me.

Kamar

Gonna push myself on work, get myself ahead a month on bills, and dedicate November to kicking ass.

I know I can get two full-length novels out if I've got nothing else to do for a month.