Fourth (non-consecutive) year. I’m more prepared than ever, been outlining since August; I’m ready to write a symbolic “first word” at midnight.
(Same name there as here, if anyone’s wondering)
Cool. I’ve only checked in the Out of the Box forum once (I’d check on the name now, but the site is slammed and lagging). The first five people were planning to write memorials to lost loved ones.
I’m not going to do anything that coherant, but my dead aunt will probably make and appearance. Other dead and/or perplexing relatives may follow.
Sounds like you have plots in mind. Do you have any conclusions planned?
Counting down.
I’ve been doing the SDMB short story thing for a few months. That’s 2000 words and I can do that in a day. But 50000 words in thirty days is like writing an SDMB story every day for a month, no weekends off! How does anyone without a job or any other responsibility or hobby manage to do that?
And why is it only once a year (twice if you count the script). What does the website do the rest of the year?
It’s about quantity, not quality. If you type at an average speed, you can easily get out 1500 words in 45 minutes. An hour or so on the weekends, and you’re set. There are people whose lives are so tightly packed that that amount of time can’t be worked in. But many people have that much leisure time. For November, they spend it writing rather than their normal recreational activities.
And it’s about quantity, not quality. There is no editing during NaNoWriMo. You get ideas, you put them on paper, and you keep writing.
Yeah I guess so. I feel guilty about only having time for one editing pass in SDMB and somehow letting rookie their/they’re sorts of errors through.
I was planning on nanoing but this seems too soon. Do I really have to wait a whole year if I’m not quite ready?
I just signed up for my second go-round after winning last year. At first I wasn’t sure what to write, as I’ve discussed a few different possibilities with my publisher, but finally settled on a sequel to my romantic suspense / werewolf novel. It’s actually the first time I’ll be writing a novel during NaNo; last time, I used the month to bulk up my online serial. Kind of a cheat but hey, 50K is 50K.
Since we’re sharing usernames, mine is aboutSkyfalls over there. Is it okay if I add you guys (the folks who’ve given your usernames) as writing buddies?
Not at all! There’s JulNoWriMo in July and Camp NaNoWriMo in August (run by the same folks as NaNo). Or, if you’re thinking of publishing your work online in serial format, there’s Web Serial Writing Month, also in August (and co-organized by yours truly). The cool thing about the latter, if I do say so myself, is that unlike the other WriMos, WeSeWriMo lets you choose your own goal. So if a 50K wordcount goal is ridiculously over-reaching for you, pick something that’s still ambitious but more feasible.
Actually you might like to listen to this webfiction podcast from back in August, which partly focuses on writing marathons and their benefits/challenges. But you might want to skip the first half of the podcast, which is just a general interview about my work and stuff.
Good luck to everyone!
Stewie Griffin says it all. I post this to mock myself…
Started last night. Only about 500 words, but I finished my document and blog setup. I’ve never blogged nano before.
My husband just sent me an email just saying “Elysiuuuuuuuuuuuum!” and a link to the NaNoWriMo site. I gave it a shot in 2008 but didn’t reach my goal.
So I think I’ll take what I started back then and give it another try. The hardest part for me is not to edit as I go. I hate seeing something imperfect on the screen and it’s hard to let it be.
He said he’d slap my hands if he saw me deleting things.
choie, feel free to add me. I have no buddies as of yet. Poor me.
I’ve done 1,672 words so far today whilst bitching and moaning about this cold I have. Again, poor me. I’m realizing that I’ll probably need to do more of an outline or something. I’m afraid I’ll write out all my ideas and still be a few thousand words short.
I was going to do it this year which would’ve been my 3rd year in a row. However, travel calls and I’m heading to Istanbul for a week and leaving tomorrow, then 5 days in Orlando to see my mom, and then off to Rome for an extended weekend. So, I’m not sad that I’m not doing it, I just wish that it was in December instead.
I’m editing my first novel that I finished the first draft of back at the beginning of the summer, so I’ll be missing out on nanowrimo this year.
I wasn’t going to do it. I’m studying abroad, I’ll be traveling in the middle of the month, and I haven’t done a fraction of the brainstorming I had in place before my first attempt at NaNo back in 2009. (A success - I wrote the full 50k and moreover, I’m still absolutely proud of the result.)
Then I had an amazing dream that I knew had to be written down. It’s like nothing else I’ve ever had any interest in writing - a supernatural story starring high school students, could it be more cliché? But here’s November and now I’m writing. We’ll see how this goes.
I’m vtn on the site if anyone wants to be writing buddies.
I’m in this year. I’ve had this novel idea kicking around my head for years now and this will be a good boot in the butt to get more down on paper than a bunch of character studies and worldbuilding stuff. 1,022 words today on my lunch hour!
I made everyone who mentioned their screenname here buddies. 
Woohoo, 2,431 words just now, the whole prologue chapter done. Well, that’s the figure according to Write Or Die (an excellent tool I recommend to everyone else who sometimes needs the thread of doom in order to write). On the other hand, Word puts me only at 2,403, so that’s the figure I’m gonna use just to be on the safe side. I don’t want to come up short just because Write or Die’s algorithm was feeling generous!
Hey fellow Nano-ers!
Just back from a local write-in with a grand total of 3363 words.
And I’m chrisk0 over at the Nano website.
I’m in - hopefully will be 4th win in four years. Got a decent (about 1200) start today despite hell day at work, recovering from trip out of town this past weekend, etc. Didn’t make it to the kickoff party, which is a bummer, but hope I can go to a few write-ins.
Oh you buggers, you got me, I’m in!
Even though I really don’t have time or a plot, I do think I’ve got 50k of short stories that will use the characters I’m stuck on, even if they’re not part of the current story.
(Waves to Amarinth)
I really wasn’t going to get sucked in this year, but the enthusiasm is contagious.
It’s not letting me add buddies. I’ll try again tomorrow.
Curse you! I actually thought there was a Ball of Bad Plotz on the internet. So I googled it and it brought me right back here.
I’m in because I’ve committed to doing it with a friend, but here it is, after midnight on the first day, and I’ve got nothing - no plot, no character, no nothing. Aaaaarrrrghg.