NaNo writers with too much time on their hands? There’s no such thing!
(Succeeded last year … might give it a go this. I have no idea what to write about, but that may not be enough to stop me.)
Yay! Nanowrimo’s almost here!
I did this the past two years, and won both times. I haven’t taken a second look at my 2002 novel, but my 2003 novel is now my graduate thesis (I’m in an M.A. writing program) and I’ve worked on it a lot. I’m doing Nano this year as well. Like last year, I’m writing contemporary science fiction. Think Donnie Darko crossed with They Live but set in a Wal-Mart and you’ve just about got it. I’m definitely planning on putting some revision time into this novel too, though that might have to wait until I finish the 2003 novel.
About submitting the writing… you just input your wordcount whenever you feel like updating it. I would refresh my wordcount every day. At the end of the month (or when you hit 50k) you send the novel to them as a text file, and their program scans it to make sure it’s 50k or over and sends you a little winner’s button and certificate. The page you access to send your novel isn’t up yet, since nobody has written their novel yet, but it will be up soon.
I’m not good at planning. I’d have to do it off the top of my head.
I’m the same way. If I wrote out an outline or something I’d be sick of the story before I even really started.
I’d end up having an outline that dictates each, individual word. It’s like…once I break it down a little, I have to break it down a little more, then more, then more. I never learned how to clean my room because I cannot mentally group items—I’ve got ten-thousand individual items, each of which is its own category deserving its own shelf.
I gave up a long, long time ago. Now, I can’t even get started on most things because I know that I’ll never get them done. It can be very depressing.
I’m in!
Actually, I’ve had some practice. I once took a 50,000 word novel and turned it into an 85,000 word novel in three days.
I can do this!
The NaNoWriMo forums have some interesting topics already. Anyone else reading them?
Signed up, joined the forums, ready to roll. If anyone else lives in the Nashville area, be sure to join us at our Saturday meetings.
I signed up last week but I don’t think I’m mentally up to the challenge. I looked at the forums and thought, “…what’s the deal, no-one has posted anything for at least a year!!!”. Two days later I realised we are still in 2004, somehow I thought it was 2005… alas I’m not a traveler from the not too distant future otherwise I would know how my novel will end…
I had almost forgotten about NaNoWriMo this year, after participating the last two. I never did finish, crashing and burning both years.
This year, maybe I’ll pretend I’m a chimp and just type words at random to get to the goal. It can’t be any worse than what I’ve produced before.
To answer Shirley Ujest 's question, the forums will get livelier in the next couple of weeks. I’m signed on as Suseblues, and you can usually find me in the geezer thread in the off-topic forum, or in the “I Hate Myself and Want To Die” forum, since that is how I often feel during a NaNoWriMo November.
I have been hedging about this since Kythereia first posted about it last week. When the heck am I going to get time to do this? I barely have time for housework and sleep as it is. So, naturally, I just signed up :smack:
I’ve got mine outlined. How sick is that?
So do it. I did that last year, and I got my 50,000 words out. Some of those words didn’t even suck!
Seriously, I’m so excited to do this again. I always love writing, and I’ve done a lot since last year, but there’s something about all those people working together at once. All the sleep deprivation, all the caffeine, all the wordcount competition… It’s a beautiful thing. Join, ye fence-sitters! Join the madness!
continuity error: After reading your description, I so want to swap with you when this is over. Mine’s a little bit Secretary crossed with Schindler’s List with lots of Willlard for spice.
psst: it’s continuity eror. Not error. 
Mine is a little bit X Files crossed with a little bit Bridget Jones Diary and a smidgen of Spiderman.
Well golly gee. Welcome to the boards, continuity eror - prepare to have your name spelled wrong for a long, long time.
FilmGeek - Let’s all swap! Novels for everyone!
Oh, I’m another “off the top of my head” from last year. I think I named the characters before starting last year, but they all changed as soon as I began writing anyway. In my writing, the story belongs to the characters anyway; who am I to make them do what I want them to do?
As for my story, nobody will ever see it…not even me, hopefully…
Also, I’m on the NaNo fora as lel, although I post very little there.
Words such as “blow,” “spew,” “exude,” and “eject”?
Mine that I am going to work on ( maybe, depending on my mood) is a Janet Evanovich Stephanie Plum Series meets The Rock and Something Else that I can’t put a finger on. Loads of one liners, sex, guns, beating down the bad guys with minimal descriptions. Breezey pool side read.
I like it, YMMV.
Then again, come November first, I’ll probably just start something else from scratch because…why not? It’s not like I have finished anything else in the last 20 years.
I signed up. I’ve had a story idea bouncing around in my head for a while now. Just don’t know how to write it without it basically being a bunch of repetitive short stories.
Maybe I should just write a short story.