Who’s in? Got your ideas? Are you outlining or playing it by ear?
I’ve got an idea of sorts, but I’m not entirely sure how I can turn it into a plot. I’m not an outline guy; however from a NaNo thread, I found the notecard plotting that looks like something I might be able to try.
I’m not going anywhere this year, so I’m using my vacation to write. I’m taking off the first half of November, since the second half won’t give me a nice, sustained work-free period of time, which I really need.
I’d like to, but I’ve got bad memories from my first attempt last year. At the 35000-word-stage or so, writing had long stopped being fun. I hope I return to the story some day, but I haven’t yet.
I do have another story idea that’s kinda perfect for NaNoWriMo - it’s not serious, all I have is the three main characters and a very general sense of what is going to happen, I don’t mind if it comes out as shit because that’s sort of what it’s supposed to be - but I’m not sure that I want to.
I’m going to try again this year, and hope I don’t abandon the story a chapter or two in like I did the last two years.
I think I might end up salvaging one of those ideas…I no longer have any of the work I did (except for the cover mockup I did for last year’s attempt), so it’s as much starting from scratch as it was when I originally tried and had the ideas bubbling in my head for long periods of time before it.
I finished last year (I didn’t the first year) and I’m hoping to this year as well. But my only idea at the moment is a possible choose-your-own-adventure Christmas story. I’ve got 20 days to think of something better, right? Not that it’s a bad idea, just not likely to bring me to 50,000 words.
I’m not a writer. I never (before hearing about this) wanted to be a writer. But I thought “hey, novel in one month. sounds cool.”
This year, I really want a working plot.
I’m really bad at plot - the first year, I “finished.” But it wasn’t good. Nothing really happened, it was just word after word. But there are over 50k of them, so I was quite proud.
Last year, I had a series of individual scenes which followed after each other. It’s good enough to be a bad, bad, bad book. I can let people who love me a lot and know that I’m not a writer look at it. (The first year, I couldn’t even do that). I think it could be edited into being merely a bad book, if I ever took the time to edit it.
So, this year, I want a plot. I haven’t quite come up with one yet, but I’m thinking it will involve a lighthouse. Even if I don’t have one, I’ll start writing that Wednesday.
This will be my sixth year, and hopefully my sixth win, although I’m busier this year than I have been before. I have my plot (or what passes for one), but I’m still not entirely sure about it–if I come up with a better idea before November, I’ll use that one.
[Jedi mind trick] This is what you want to do in November. [/Jedi mind trick]
A few days ago I realized that my first two NaNo novels, plus the one I just did for fun, are all very closely related. Even more interesting, they almost look as though they can be connected into one comprehensive unit. This year’s idea would create the beginning of the meta-story; I would have to add something on the end to finish it. Then, I will need to sew it together and pull characters from later books into earlier books to create a more long-lasting, sustained story. It’s neat that I had no such intention, but it just kinda worked out that way.
I’m still too squeamish to tell what I’m thinking about. It’s fantasy, and that’s all I’m saying for now.
I just renewed my membership, and I’ve been thinking about my story since August. As far as I know, I don’t have to go anywhere for Thanksgiving weekend, and my roommate will be in Texas, and I’ll have the solitude and quiet I need for the big push to the finish. This will be my third year, and hopefully my third win. Maybe this time I’ll actually finish the book, as well. I’ve got two previous novels with more than 50K words, but no ending.
I figure I might as well. I’m actually feeling like writing again, and I’ve got a pretty good idea. Don’t know if it’ll be any good, but I bet I’ll at least get a decent first draft out of the whole thing.
I’ve got one with half a middle chapter missing, and one whose ending I just didn’t care about anymore, once I figured out who did it. I do hope to finish them some day–maybe I’ll do that as my warm up this year.
I’ve signed up again, as a three year loser I’m hoping that this is the golden year. I’m not in classes right now, I’m on a very lazy work schedule, and so I think I might be able to just down enough Mountain Dew to drive me through to a finish. That’s the plan anyways.
Story wise I’m departing from my beloved sci-fi cyberpunk and going more towards a pulp fantasy sort of thing, just good ole orc bashing We’ll see.
We’ll see.