Life after NaNo Seniors

I am trying again to post something about this subject on the December and Beyond and Life After NaNoWrimo forums.

I tried to post something here about seniors but my post was moved to the NaNo Age Group forums.

I am posting here to connect with the December and Beyond crowd.

Are there seniors here in the Life Ater NaNowrimo forum?

I'm a senior, and I know at least a few others hang around. The 50+ forum usually goes pretty dead, though, so I post in the more active ones, like this one.

Ditto here. The 50+ forum after Nano is kind of like a vacation resort after all the summer people have gone home.

In 10 days, I'll be 58. And I'm kind of peeved about it, too. My plan was to be a famous novelist before I was 30.

Hello! I'm lazy (and my hands are still tired!) so I'm pasting part of a post I just wrote for the "what have you learned from NaNo" thread:

--best of all: that it doesn't end here. I love CreateSpace's publishing offer. I'm determined to edit and finish my NaNovel by the end of June and self publish, and before this year is out I'll be holding my very own book in my hands. That has been my dream all my life (I'm 56), but I've never dared to approach a "real" publisher; now i can achieve my dream my own way. And it'll all be because of NaNoWriMo. *hugs NaNo staff*

Hi all! I'm 54, just finishing my first WriMo novel. I'm excited about finishing the project and then editing, and I'd like to find some beta readers (and be one myself) to help finish off the process. It's always fun to talk to other people my age - so YEAH. Let's hang out here.

I'm still decompressing. I keep opening the files of the two pieces I was working on before NaNo, and then they just sit there. Instead, I've spent most of every day reading. But I'm determined to get back to work this weekend. I have a short story to finish, and I'm trying to get last year's novel ready to publish on Smashwords before the end of the year. Not sure I'll make it, though.

I read somewhereaboutthenano forums closing down during the year. True? I also would love to keep hearing from fellow writing seniors. ESP as I go into the research and edit and actually write mode.

I usually only hang out in the Smoking Pen - a gathering place for the 50+ group to chat, try out story ideas, test run characters, and such. We often engage in interactive storytelling with our characters and ourselves (I'm not very good at this part, mostly I stay myself and let the others play with my characters). There's usually several sub-threads going on, and people can pick and choose which subthread they want to follow (one or all or start their own!). Everyone's welcome, even if they aren't over 50 yet, but most of us are over 50 (I'm 66).

It was in the Age Group 50+ Forum (and before that in the 40+ forum, and before that in the Geezers Thread), and now, apparently, it's in the RPG Forum...The Smoking Pen has been around since 2003, so it's been moved around a lot.

We set up a Facebook group this year so we could easily interact all year long since the Age 50+ forum usually dies sometime in December. You're welcome to join us there, and then back here for Camp NaNoWriMo and NaNoWriMo. If you have a Facebook account, just search for "Smoking Pen" and ask to join. At least the Facebook group won't move around, so it should be easy to find. [removed]

I've been a regular in the FB group and everyone there seems in agreement that it should continue, so we can definitely hang out there whatever this forum does.

If your region has a FB, that is always an excellent alternative for the rest of the year!

As I explained in your moved thread, if you wish to meet with a certain age group, you really do need to post in the age group forum for that age group. I know things are slower, but that doesn't mean that the rules of the forum change.

This is not a forum for meeting with certain age groups. You would find that those forums would not get quite as slow if you would actually post in them.

I know it's frustrating, but we have certain subject matters. The rules don't change because the event is over; we will continue to move threads to the most appropriate forum if that's where they belong, even if they are slower. From the The Codes of Conduct (which you agreed to when you signed up for your account):

Quote:Do observe the forum subjects
Since there are so many participants and so many different conversations, we’ve divided the forums up into different lounges. Please pick an appropriate lounge to post in, and only post the same item in one area. Duplicate threads will be deleted. Comments that are posted in the wrong forum may be moved to a place where they’ll find better conversation-mates.

so People... it sounds like if we want to stay connected with other 50+ (and you're not comfortable with the FB route) maybe the best thing to do is pick one of the approved 50+ threads, and use that as our home base. I don't like the word Geezer, but I suppose that the Geezer Clubhouse is the logical place. And I think as long as we don't create new threads, we can stay there, in the 50+ forum.

Hello to others who joined me on this thread.

The forum December and Beyond is promoted on the Dashboard so I thought it was the best place to connect with folks after December. I have been told that the rules are that you can not have an age-related thread on that forum no matter what. So this thread has also been moved back to the Age Group forum.

Also, at the start of NaNoWriMo, I send a message to the folks in charge and asked if it was okay to post a link to my things on Writing.Com. Writing.Com actively supports NaNoWriMo by encouraging folks to get involved. It was all the NaNoWriMo activity on Writing.Com that brought me to NaNo in the first place.

Well, even though my link had been looked at and I have been given permission to use it, I was just told that posting those links was against the rules. The links in this thread have been removed. Less that a third of my posts contained a link to my portfolio at Writing.Com. I don't think that was doing anything that broke the rules.

This has not proved a fun place for me to hang out so I am going to limit my involvement here.

If anyone wants to talk to me, you can send me an email message and I will get back with you.

I am feeling sad and disgruntled this morning. I am not sure what the big deal was about not having this thread in the Life after NaNo area but obviously having this thread here in this forum is more important than having this writer here at this site. :-(

Take care everyone . . . and keep writing . . .

I will.

~ ~ ~ ruwth ~ ~ ~

Banning links must be a new rule. In the past, I've posted links, and they were left alone.

For that matter, though, I've seen links in posts this year, so I don't know why the 50+ forum doesn't allow links. Why aren't geezers allowed to have links?