Today is October 1st, which for a fair few of us means the official start of Plotting Season for National Novel Writing Month!
For those of you who don't know, the idea behind National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo for short, often just NaNo) is to write 50,000 words on a novel (or other similar writing project, they're very loose about what counts as a valid 'novel') during the month of November. While you're not supposed to start writing the novel itself until November 1st, there's nothing against outlining and plotting beforehand!
So, who all's in? Do you have ideas? Is this the first time around for you, or is this old hat by now? Let us know! Come commiserate with your fellow WriMos, or cheer on those of us crazy enough to take on such a project!
Oh help, it's NaNoWriMo season. WHAT AM I GOING TO DO?!
I've got two novels in my mind I wanna write, possibly I'll attempt a double Wrimo. I'm still trying to decide if I should do it or not. 😛 and if I need to take off school if I /do/ do it. I don't think I need too.... didn't take that much time /last/ year....
I'm hoping to participate in NaNoWriMo for the first time this year! 🙂 I have a plot idea or two I'm tossing around, hopefully to be fleshed out before November begins. Because my schoolwork is very demanding and I'm a rather slow writer, I doubt I'll get anywhere near 50,000 words. But at least this will get the ball rolling!
Also, I have decided that I want to have a career in editing fiction, so if anyone has some written work they would be willing to let me practice on, it would make my day. 🙂
I might use NaNo as an excuse to work on my Susan Fic since I actually have time this year.
Once a daughter of Eve. Now a daughter of the Second Adam.
I wasn't gonna do nanowrimo this year (have done it a few times before)--but then I had a dream with a story to it that would be good for me to focus on, explore, develop. It seems to be more of a Help-Islie-Heal story than a Share-With-Everyone story, so I don't know if I'll be ready/wanting to talk about it or not.
*is glad she has some of her TLC family to write with!* I'm gonna need the company.
They might not need me but; they might.
I'll let my Head be just in sight;
A smile as small as mine might be
Precisely their necessity.
-Emily Dickinson
I'm going to write a sequel to a wolf story I wrote a while ago. This will be the second time I do NaNoWriMo. I didn't make 50,000 words last time though. 😀
Hopefully I can make the goal this year. 😀
I intend to join the chee leading squad for all of you! (Perhaps with a fox on my shoulder? Who knows!)
Lucky NaNo #7 for me this year, so we'll see what this one holds. So long as I can pull off win #6, I'll be happy - though I'll be happier if I can break my personal wordcount record for November. 😛
I've had an idea percolating in the back of my head since mid-July or so, which tends to be when I get walloped upside the head with my NaNo plots. Normally I write fantasy of some sort, since I can be less concerned with realism and just scribble to my heart's content, but this year I'm planning on something that'll probably look more like a collection of vignettes than the typical novel... I'm doing a story on a family of musicians, as told through the eyes of the violin passed down among said family.
Kind of anxious, as I'm doing a lot of traveling in November, but hey, what is NaNo without some crazy busy scheduling.
I've never done NaNoWriMo before, but I have many friends who have. I'm going to be trying to finish my Narnia fanfiction 'Born For This.' I don't know if I shall succeed because I am really weighed down with school, but I'm going to try!
So I've decided to write my other novel I have planned instead of my wolf story. And I'm really exited about doing NaNo this year. Hopefully I'll get more Ideas out of this story then I did out of the other one I was going to write. Now almost everything I hear I can write in my story because they are humans! And animals like wolfs don't use normal things like houses, swords.. ect.
But the little catch is I hardly write about humans so it might be a bit more challenging. So I'm very exited to see what I can do and how it turns out!
Go Arna! I hope it turns out for you.
Cheering for all who at least try to win!
Well, I think I might have changed my mind. I may be writing an original story that I've been planning since April. We'll see. I may fall back on my fanfic simply because I have it planned out and it would be easy to keep up with.
I'm fighting my outline out with Ariel.
Anybody else planning out their novels and who does it by ear?
I'm gonna participate. I have bits of a world and bits of a plot, but no character names. I have a journey and a map and a plot twist but no destination. Basically my story is made up of sparkly glowy things thrown into a mason jar full of jam and shaken, not stirred. No, really...my novel is about sparkly things and jam.
*hunts for the like button to "like" Kristi's post*
So I am still planning to use NaNo to work on The Lost Seed. I should probably sign up or something, so I can follow people and stuff. I'm going into this completely blind (as in I've done absolutely no planning). But on the other hand, I've been working on this particular story for years and already have the characters and a vague idea of where it's going. So lets see what happens.
Once a daughter of Eve. Now a daughter of the Second Adam.
Apologies for the double post: What are your user names on NaNoWriMo, so I can add you as a buddy? I'm Ajnos.
Once a daughter of Eve. Now a daughter of the Second Adam.
