Fredericton WriMos

I was wondering the same thing. I also subscribe to the Edmonton region, since I just moved to Fredericton from there, and to the Vancouver region because I have so many friends there. Both those regions are filling up with comments etc. So I was wondering where the New Brunswick people were. I hope we're not going to let the west kick our eastern bums. :-)

Welcome to Fredericton! :) And I agree, we definitely have to represent and show that Eastern Canada kicks some you-know-what!

I'm here for year 3! ;)

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nice to see some familiar faces.

Here I am starting my third Nanowrimo! I currently have a broken arm, and am dictating this to my computer.
Solena and I are working hard to set up a Fredericton information site with hints and tips to make your Nanowrimo experience better. More information to follow.

Susan

I set up a site for Frederictonians and Friends.

http://www.thecatsweb.com/fredwrimo/

Susan

I'm from Moncton. My whole family are doing it this year, as we all did last year! It's awesome to NaNo in a close little group like that. We all won too!

Ooh, it would be a lot of fun to write with a group like that! I heard stories last year of siblings writing together, and I was a little envious. I don't know when my sibs would be up for something like this!

I would like my dad to participate, but everytime I mention it my mother says "He tried writing a book once, it was awful"

(T_T)

Susan

I'm away for school this year and thus am not in Fredericton.

I'm with you lot in spirit, though. =)

Well, looking at the event calendar, it looks like I might actually be able to attend an event this year. I hope to make it out to the 7 November Write-In at UNB. After that, I'm gone until the 2nd week of December.

I'm really looking forward to putting names and faces to screen names! ;)

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It'll be great to meet you! :D

I'm here in Fredericton, at UNB. ;)

Nice to meet you all

Hi All,

I'm new. I registered last year but because of my schedule, I didn't even get started.

Are there any other newby's here? There are 129 on the list, how many from Freddy Beach?

Pam

I live in Freddy Southside. Also looking for Freddy Wrimos for Nov. Who knows I might actually come up with something =)
Jorge

Hi. I live in Fredericton. This will be my first NaNoWriMo attempt.

--Vivian

Day 1 - 1:20 minutes of furious typing - 2199 words.

How are you guys doing?

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I reached yesterday's goal - 1700 words - with the help of the midnight write-in (wrote 1k words there).

Good luck everybody!

2,947 -- I love Dragon NaturallySpeaking. :)

I did, however, still managed to make my arm very sore.

Susan

My daily goal is also 1,700 words, which I met yesterday. I'm over halfway there right now, but I'm taking a break so I don't drive myself too far out of my mind. I should be at 3,400 before the end of the night.

UEL - you are fast.

The midnight write-in at Susan's got me off to a good head start, so that I managed 2,682 words on Nov. 1. Today I was tired so I only got in 842. But altogether that's still pretty good.

I have stats now. I love having stats! =D

Vivian

I just want to say that I was lagging behind in my word count for a few days, but I just now got almost completely caught up. Whoo-hoo! *Does happy dance*

Yay, congrats! :D That's totally, totally awesome. *cheers you on*

Yes, congratulations to everyone who is keeping up with their word counts. At the moment, I'm not one of you, but, hopefully, I can defeat my procrastination and join you shortly.

Right now, though, I'm going to rant. I was feeling uninspired and ended up wasting a lot of time today, so I decided to stay up later than I normally would to play Final Fantasy VIII. I had two reasons: One, I've really been feeling the need to stop worrying about my word count and focus on something else, and two, the setting is modernish with fantasy influences and features characters the same age as the ones in my novel in a school-like facility. (Closer to a military school, really, but it's not that far off from high school.) There's also some nostalgia involved because I first played the game when I was 17, so that helps me to get into the mindset that I'm looking for. That was the plan, at least, but it looks like there's something wrong with the first disk, so it freezes when I get to about the third scene after starting a new game, and it won't even let me load a game that already exists.

In addition to Final Fantasy VIII being one of my favourite games and its story having a certain personal significance to me, I really needed this for inspiration, so I'm not too happy right now. I can replace it, sure, but it's annoying that I need to and it concerns me that I might not have the inspiration that I need to make tomorrow very productive.

Thanks for the cheers, Soleta. Forever, I want to come to your house and play with your collection of computer games. :D

I'm a Zork afficionado. I've played every Zork there was. Too bad they don't make new ones. I miss them.

I too have been having a harder time slogging along through this story at this time, week 3, than I did in the first couple of weeks, which is interesting because Chris Baty says in his book that week 2 is when it gets hard and week 3 is when you get a lot of inspiration and it gets easier. Clearly, I am not quite on the same time table as he is and neither is Forever.

Actually, I've always been more of a console gamer than a PC gamer, but I've been playing more PC games lately, mostly because of the Orange Box. I played Zork once, but I didn't get very far into it. I like text adventures, though. I haven't come across very many, but I do like the ones that I've played.

Anyway, I sort of expected the same thing. The first week went pretty well, but I started getting discouraged during the second, and now that I'm behind on my word count and at a point where I'm almost completely out of ideas and forced to make everything up on the spot, I'm not exactly on that downhill slope to the finish line.

It also didn't help that my desktop computer gave me a strange error that I had to spend at least half an hour researching. My findings: 1) It's probably a virus. 2) It's definitely not a virus and those people who led me to believe that it was were reading the wrong articles. But come on, Microsoft, 'postmortem' is a creepy word that you should not use for an obscure program that people aren't likely to ever run into until that program spontaneously combusts like all of your other programs.

Oh, dear. I'm ranting again. I'd better get back to my novel.

I found last year (my first year doing Nano) that my experience mirrored what Chris Baty said would happen at each word count (first 15k euphoric; second 15k incredibly difficult; next 10k gaining speed and easier; and last 10k downhill to the finish). They happened in the first 12 days, though, since that's when I finished (last year was truly insane). This year, though, it's all different. I find it generally less euphoric, though it was easier the first week. I'm finding it a bit easier after 35k now, but generally I don't have the vision that I thought I would coming into it. Overall it's much harder, though I have hit times when the writing just comes. I'm eager to read back through it and find those bits. :)