That’s why og made December. Although, the first year I did spend a lot of time searching for the perfect word, and that actually helped me come up with ideas.
Yes. Yes, you do.
No, you’re sane in a crazy world!
Dude, we are all crazy.
Think about the thought process it takes.
- I need to do the fall housecleaning
- Thanksgiving is coming up quick
- Christmas is right around the corner - need to finish shopping and wrapping and I need to decorate.
I know. Let me write a novel!
Ditto. I assume it’s the one in California, but there is a small village of Stockton, NY, which oddly enough figures semi-prominently in my 2004 WriMo.
T-minus one week. Woooooo!
I’ll be unbearable by Halloween. I get way too excited for this.
Oh, nooooooo! I still have to reread last year’s NaNo to remember where I left everybody. 
And then I need a plot. Or something to substitute for one… :eek:
Because of Pratchett’s influence, I’m terribly reluctant to map anything out. I finally broke down and mapped out my little world, and now I’m facing two castles (well, a tower and a castle) that will contain much of the action. I don’t want to make castles. But I suppose I need all the bits to be in the correct spots.
This annoys me.
Well, I read the last third of last year’s NaNo this afternoon, and a good thing, too. See, all my Nanos have been set in the same Fantasy world, and I have around a dozen “main” characters who pass into and out of the foreground as my plot demands…and I just discovered that I killed my main swordsman near the end of that book. :eek:
Given that that character was going to be featured in the action at the start of this year’s novel, that presented a minor problem. 
Which I solved by having him turned into a zombie. 
A nice zombie.
Who will none the less be rotting away, bit by bit through my book…
Yup. For me though, strike #1 and sub “Hey! We’ve got 6 dozen prompts to benchmark in November, so maybe we’ll work overtime! Like Saturdays!” and that’s proof enough that I’m crazy. But I’m fun-crazy, so it’s all good.
I’ve been a bad influence. I’ve got 2 friends at least half-convinced each to join our madness. I’m hoping to tip the balance by the weekend. 
Out of curiousity, does anyone know how to pronounce my Female character’s name? Islene. I think it’s either is-leen or ice-leen, or maybe even eyes-leen, but I’m not sure which since I’ve never met anyone with the name before. (I picked it because of the meaning, ftr)
I had a relative named Islene, and it was pronounced ishLEEN. I have no idea if that’s right. We’re in Appalachia.
Is anyone participating in the local gatherings? What are they usually like?
I went to a couple of the North Jersey Write-Ins last year–we had a good time. I have a hard time getting any work done in a social setting, however, so that made it hard. But mostly, it’s like any other gathering of people who met on the internet. You find yourselves wondering what the hell you’re going to talk about at the beginning, and then everything works out okay. 
Every Halloween (or the nearest weekend to it), I go up to Maine to visit friends, and invariably, something about my impending NaNo changes because of it, and half my careful planning and plotting goes out the window because I realize something is just plain wrong. This time, I realized the whole danged book was set in the wrong country, and I have to make the required adjustments to characters and backstory, as well as do research on a country I’ve never been to. Grr.
But, that’s why I’m glad for a job that doesn’t keep me nearly as busy during the day as everybody seems to think I am. When I get home, I’ll clean the house and do my laundry and catch up on the Tivo before everything goes to hell on Wednesday.
Had a couple meet-ups last year and they were productive. They were small—the big one had about four people, IIRC. We pretty much just wrote and maybe chatted a bit.
I’m trying to get some happening this year.
I’ve got my note card scenes, my brand new pink Starbucks coffee mug, a comfy spot on the couch and a 10 lb laptop who draws the line at word processing and low bandwidth web browsing. I’m in it for the long haul!
My story is still a bit lacking in strong conflict and a climax, but I’m not too worried about it just yet.
Is anyone else staying up tomorrow night in order to hit the keyboard right at midnight?
…Or is it just me?
I would, if I weren’t absolutely certain I’d pay for it until Saturday.
Still no plot…
if nothing happens in th enext 38 hours, I’m going to end up writing vampires, castles, and artifacts.
I’m not sure how that will work.
How is everyone doing? I’ve been plugging away at an outline, and I have a pretty good story fleshed out in my mind - unfortunately, I’m not entirely sure on the ending yet.
I also have the problem of being away for five days at Thanksgiving. There is no way out of it and I can’t explain to my future in-laws what I am doing, they’d never get it. I love them but they only do stuff to which there is a physical result and a book is not counted amongst that.
I’ll have to make it up around it.
The world I am using is one that’s pre-existing, sort of. I couldn’t possibly come up with a world of my own.
Looking forward to it.
I should write my outline down–I’m recycling an idea that I already had a few notes for (I rarely do notes for anything,) but the idea has changed a LOT in the in last day or so, so fortunately not having the old notes with me isn’t much of a problem, and i can safely toss the tarot card reading I’d worked out (might still use the cards though). I’ve been kicking this idea around for a few years and every time it comes closer to a coherent whole–this time I think it might actually work. I’m looking forward to Wednesday just because I have a lot of fun ideas floating around my head right now. Well, that and I need something to do now that I’ve finished sewing my Halloween costume (I really need a sewing machine…)
I’m excited! I purposely didn’t even glance at this thread until today, likewise, I also registered at NaNoWriMo just this morning.
No plot ideas. No characters. Just a great big blank page (OK, monitor) that smells like possibility. Freedom!
Good luck with Day 1, writers!
araminth, araminty, I also have no plot, no characters, no nothing.
And a work function tonight.
And someone who was a little surprised when I said I couldn’t go visit because it was NaNoWriMo.
We will enjoy ourselves! Unless things change radically, I’m going to follow araminth’s lead and have a vampire or two. Even though I loathe and despise them.