We're here!

Ready? hahaha Oh, dear

For me at least it's tradition not to be ready

(Excited, on the other hand, I most certainly am)

2005 - LOSER - Untitled - ~6,000 words
2006 - WINNER - Dear Diary, This sucks - 50,199 words

2007
Title - Streetlights and Stickers
Plot - ??
Characters - Seven and counting

I completely am.

Family issues kept me from getting far last year, so I've been nursing my plot this whole year as well as making changes to the characters and such, so I'm more than ready!

I'm probably halfway ready. I need a better title, and since I plan to use a lyric quote at the beginning of each chapter, I need to break out my CDs for inspiration.

"Chic people, unique people, and freak people we quickly ditch."

yay the sites up. everyone at chat over at fmwriters.com has been refreshing the site all day. :) Now to get outline finished before the start of Nov. :D

Ready? Who needs to be ready? Was I ready last year? No...

I just want to get started with that writing and no, I don't want November to come, because when it comes, it'll be over and then it's again waiting and waiting and waiting till next NaNoWriMo o_O

(It's just too addicting to have the forums back, that's the point)

Screnzy '07: Sopulintyrkkääjät - The Lemming Conspiracy (won)
+ the award for Best Use of Cute Photos of Lemmings

Blogging the adventure

I'm so freakin' ready it's not even funny. Good thing I have the boards to tide me over until Nov. 1!

NaNo 2006 - Divergence: 50,021
NaNo 2007 - A Love in Darkness Wrought: 50,023

I have a beginning and an end. Must use October wisely for the middle part :)
First time doing nanowrimo and definitely hyped.

I have titles....I have characters....

I lack plots.

But do I need a plot?

Of course not!

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2005: won!
2006: won!
2007: won!

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I'm probably close to being halfway ready but I don't really care because I can't wait until November :)

"So the combination is 1, 2, 3, 4, 5? That's the stupidest combination I've ever heard in my life, it's the kind of thing an idiot would have on his luggage!"

I'm so ready.

Well, I've got a lot of outlining to do...but I still have all of October for that.

I actually have a plot now. 8D

Haha, no.

I have a vague idea of where I'm going. Note the use of the word "vague", there? Yes. I have a few characters, but I know none of their names, nor what they look like. I only know what they do and who they're related to.

It helps that I'm looking at 15+ characters, here.

I can only say this: thank god it's not a We Must Save the World! novel.

Edit: I really need to get a hang of replying on this forum...

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Psh. Plans. The plot of mine has changed about seven million times over the last couple of years and right now I wouldn't be surprised if it ended up with a road trip to Texas, despite not having either cars or Texas in the world in question.

Dude. Is your name a Good Omens reference?

I'm so ready, it's not even funny.

No, really. It's not. Even though I'm writing satire.

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This is where I would put a witty comment, or some inspiring quote.

I can't think of any.

I know my characters' names, I have a long and hugely elaborate backstory planned out for them, and I know more about Algeria than I ever have before... Do I have a plot? Who cares?

(Amazingly, I do actually know what's supposed to happen in my novel, just not how it happens. Plenty of time for that, though :D)

Sanity: Code Turquoise
Dead Plots: Two
Title: Cherished
Tea: Earl Grey, and holding

I'm ready! Which is actually kinda scary, but that's okay. When I come up with a name for Adventurer McShinythings, then it'll be really scary. :P

"Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass." Anton Chekhov

I was totally the opposite of you (and still am to a degree). I knew plenty of ways things -could- happen, I just had no idea what actually was supposed to happen in the end.

Complete lack of direction in other words.

I'm very excited to see the boards up :) I'm probably not ready for November yet, but why should I, it's still a month away? :D Last year I started on the 4th of November without a plot, and somehow (don't ask me how I did it) I ended up with 50k. So I'll probably start thinking of a plot a few days before November :D

Though I just realized I do have test week in November, which isn't very nice of my school...Ugh, normal schools have test weeks in December.

Ummmm, readiness. We'll just skip that question in general. ^_^

I have some characters and I sort of have some bad guys but I really don't have major ones and that's not helping my "plot" at all. Ah well, such is life.

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“I’ll answer who I want, when I want.” Arisha Stealth "Twisted Truths" my 2006 Nano
Tracey: "When you can't run anymore, you crawl, and when you can't do that..."
Zoe: "You find someone to carry you."
-Firefly "The Message"
NaN

I'm sort of ready. I have a plot and characters, but I'm not completely comfortable with everything. This is better than last year, so I think I'm alright. If I survive this new message board.

Yes, I'm ready for NaNo! I've been ready for about eleven months. Not that I have a plot. Or a title. Or characters. Or even an idea. But that's what's absolutely fantastic about NaNo. You can go in with nothing and come back with everything.

"Of course the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you - if you don't play, you can't win." - Robert Heinlein

Ready?

I have 1445 words of planning, and one scene is haunting me already, because oh goddamn it, they're so [i]cute[/i], and it's so significant to the plot. And I really want to get to Part Four, because all my characters lose their minds.

Yes, this from a story that's supposed to be a lighthearted thing for my fourth time at NaNoing.

My muse hates me and wants my brain to die.

(Please pardon any nonsensical syntax/bad spelling. It's two a.m. I'm writing an essay in another window. These are not good combinations of things.)

Senioritis -- Four men in a coffeeshop. They write a novel.
Echo Flux -- Peasant girl saves the world with SCIENCE!
(That was NaNo 07. Screnzy?)
Ballroom Blitz -- The kind of highly-meta play that gets written by a student in Tech Theatre.

I'm so ready that my Inner Editor is wrestling me to the ground to keep me from starting early. I think if I ever figure out a name for my third character, there will be no stopping me.

As for plot... I'm actively trying not to think of one. I plan too much, and it makes my writing static. This year is an exercise in making things up as I go.

"What, I'm not allowed to hit people?"
"Not people capable of genocide."

2006: Whole (won)
2007: Still Undead (pending)

This is my first time - I have no title, no characters, no plot.

No - wait, I heard about a character at the weekend who is so ludicrous I have to put him in my novel - but he'll have to be a really minor character.

And if I've got him then at some point someone will have at least attempt to fly a kite.

Well, it's a start.

I can't wait to find out what happens.

Cathy

First SERIOUS time. I signed up last year, but after being completely unprepared I ended up writing 5 pages before hitting a dead end and giving up in favor of schoolwork.

This year, I think I'm as ready as I'll ever be. I say that meaning I have a plot idea, I basically just need to make a timeline and give the characters names.

Given that I'm writing this post in the middle of an all-night paper session, I'm guessing that this November is going to consume my sanity. I imagine it's gonna make kicking my pop habit more difficult for sure.

w00000! Screw sanity!

Whops... double posted, sorry!

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Yay, first time i've ever heard of this place, and my first time here too! And.. probably the first time i'd ever acctually do something like this since my writing has become alot more in the past year.

I've got my plot sorted out, most of my main characters and the main storyline for my idea, i cant wait to get started i wish it was November now! I can't wait i tell you! I'm itching to write and i can't scratch that itch till november! AHHHH.

Good luck everyone! *waves*

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Me neither, Zette! I have characters (well, I'm writing a sequel, so that part's easy) and a plot outline that's about two sentences long. Apart from that, no. But I have a whole month to come up with a proper, scene-by-scene outline, so I'm not panicking yet.

Really.

Well, OK, just a little bit. I've heard of the "sophomore slump" and that's not going to be me. No sirree!

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HELP!!!

2006 Winner (undergoing revisions)
2007: Treasons, Stratagems and Spoils (alt history fantasy)

Three brothers, two murders, one stolen necklace - and a shipload of trouble!
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Ready? Ha.... Hahahaha.... Bwahahahahahahahahahah! *wipes tears* Seriously now. This is my fifth year doing this, and I've NEVER been completely ready when November comes.

This year, though, I think I might be a bit more ready than I've been before. My outline (which isn't even CLOSE to finished), is looking more solid than before, I really love my plot and I think it's worth writing, and unlike.... some of my previous efforts, I think I might like it even after November's come and gone.

Titles, characters (oh heck, I need more characters! *frantic*), outline, worldbuilding - I've got at least the beginnings of all of it.

NaNo 2007: Winters of Our War - Because whatever else happens, all wars are fought by people.

My webcomic. Let me show you it

I was somewhat coerced into attempting this.

I have a plot... I have characters... I have a story outline.... am I ready? *bites nails* Probably not. I thought I might try to write some extraneous chapters based around my story, just to get myself immersed in the world. Dunno how well it'll work, but I guess it's worth a shot.

Good luck to everyone.

I'm not! I keep coming up with random plots and just don't know which to go with. I haven't even chosen a genre. There's one idea which I had a couple of months ago. There's not much plot but I have some scenes and characters. But no, totally not ready. But when was I ever ready?!

2007: After Midnight. Coming of age drama with a dash of fantasy. And romance. And everything else.
2006: Come With Me. Pirate Fantasy Adventure Romance. Uncompleted at ~40,000