Introduce yourself!

I said we'd have to do this again! Anyway, here's a thread to meet up and find out who everyone is!
I'm angrysunbird, aka Duncan, your friendly neighbourhood Municipal Liaison. I've been MLing here for about three years, and have previously written novels in California, England and Sydney. I'm a PhD student at Vic and while I mostly write Sci Fi I have tried my hand at Fantasy, Comedy, Action, and even Romance. The less said about the latter the better really. And along with Travis I'll be helping all of you achieve novelling nirvana!

Zoë here! I've been attempting Nano for several years now, and I'm still yet to do better than four digits of word count. Nevertheless, this year I AM going to reach fifty thousand. I don't know how, but I will do it! And possibly even all on my typewriter, like somebody (was it you, Duncan?) challenged me to.

Hey, I'm Mikkiness, aka Michelle. I'm on a new account for this years NaNo, largely because I was bored of the other one. This will be my second year, and hopefully my second win.

I'm in my final year of college and hoping to go to Vic next year.

For NaNo this year I'm writing a YA novel about Multiplicity (the preferred term for D.I.D./M.P.D.) with probably too much romance considering my usual complete disinterest in reading/writing it. I'm constantly looking for 'resources' *cough cough* I mean, people, to help me with this as a large part of it involves lampshading, twisting, and poking serious holes in common perceptions on the topic (on the subject of which, feel free to pm me with whatever you know (or think you know) about multiples).

Woop! We're back into it!

AJ here, long time offender: to my wife's horror and my perverse glee, this is my 11th Nanowrimo. Interestingly, I'm trying to juggle it with performing in a show (Spamalot! Come and see it!) and finishing my teacher training course this year, so it's always amusing what little challenges we make for ourselves! The down side: I won't be making it to Sunday meetups for the first half of the month due to rehearsals!

Um, no thinking space right now, assignments. Will come up with a firm novel idea over the next fortnight and map the damn thing out... I've finally admitted over the last couple of years that plotting actually does increase my chances of success, dammit.

I'm lexiana, aka Alex, and this is going to be my second year of this crazy, stressful but fantastic month. I managed to finish my last NaNo - it was a hell of a rush, though! - and this year I'm going to tackle the Sci-Fi genre, unless I change my mind... I'm in my second year of Biology at Vic, and so I have a five day disadvantage because of exams, but still, Challenge Accepted.

Like Timone from Lion King says, NaNo is "Stressful yet satisfying!" (oh wait, slimy yet satisfying... nevermind.)

Why hello there. My name is Keri but you can call me cinnamon.quill, sir or Fred.

This is my third year participating in NaNoWriMo and hopefully my third year winning it too. It is however my first year doing NaNoWriMo outside of Wellington, New Zealand. So I'm going to be missing you all but still here on the forms, da'lings.

I'm currently living in Manhattan, NYC, so I think I'll be here for November. Or not. We'll see.

Hi, my (pen)name is Charlotte, and I've got a huge dilemma.
I've been eagerly anticipating my first nano for months, but now we're getting close to it, I'm not sure I can do it :( I have 90 days' worth of work to complete by my client deadlines of November 30... I can't seem to communicate to my boss that we're ridiculously under-resourced to deliver on these dates, so short of working long hours seven days a week I don't know how I'm going to get it all out.
I'd still love to take part in nano, but do I need the added pressure on top of my work? Or would it be a welcome distraction/change of pace? Who knows :S
If I don't make it through the November journey with the rest of you, is there a local writing group that meets throughout the year? Murphy's law I'll be back to not having enough work to do from December onwards!

Hello again, all you fabulous NaNoers!

My name is Lauren, I'm new to all this business with the writing and the stressing and whatnot, but I'm really looking forward to meeting you all. I've never written anything as long as 50 000 words (I feel like I need to put that in bold or something to give it the gravitas it deserves). What I do write is mainly horror-ish and fantasy-ish, though I don't like to put myself in a box too much - hence the 'ishes'.

This year, my plan (oh, yes, I have a plan, it's all handwritten and on my noticeboard as we speak, I'm tweaking it a little now, but I hope it's going to be a good one) is to write a horror-ish tale from two different characters perspectives. So it'll be a first person narrative kind of thing. Plus, I'm doing my masters in information studies (what you do when you want a pay raise in the library world!) part time at Vic, so that should be... mad. Fiddle de-dee, said Lola, what's a bit more stress?

*waves*

Haiii all! I'm Briony, but you can call me Bri. This shall be my... 5th NaNo! Hooray! I'm in Wellington for uni, and the lame thing is that I'll actually be leaving pretty early on during November to go back home for the summer. BUT the town I'm from is so tiny that I wouldn't be surprised if I was the only one doing NaNo there. Sooo I'm tagging in with you lot. Plus, I hung out here a bit last year, and know some of your faces... ;)

And this year I'm taking my first dip into writing Sci-fi - meep! I am not a scientist. At all. So, Duncan, be prepared for me to bombard you with questions :D

Have fun Wrimos!

Hi, I'm Steph :)

I'm a third year Laws/Arts student at Vic and this will be my second NaNoWriMo! Like Briony (who consistently forgets that she isn't the only person in our small town doing this!) I'll be leaving Wellington at the beginning of the month, largely to my dismay - but I'm with you in spirit!

I'm currently having a small crisis as to whether to stick with my usual chicklit or venture into the murder mystery that's been floating around in my head for a few months - though I feel that I'm going to need to do a lot of planning with the latter and will have to fit it around working 6 days a week during November! Any thoughts?

Good luck everyone!

I'm Jenny, a recent grad bumming around my parents house and hoping for find a job involving some type of writing. I'm not actually in Wellington at the moment, nor probably will be for years, but you guys are all way cooler than my local writing group with I did NaNo here in the States back in 2009. Thus, this is staying as my home region.

This is my third year, and I'm hoping to win again. I'm also doing original fiction this year, instead of fanfiction as I did for the past two. We'll see how it goes. I can write fanfics more than 50K, but I've never done anything original over 30K. Plus, there's nothing nearly as cool as the Library Bar in the Detroit region. I mean, there is that 24 hour coney island, but I don't want to bring my laptop there.

Hi everyone. I'm Catherine and this will be my third NaNo. Fingers crossed that I will make it past the dreaded 25k point, which is where RL has fallen apart for me twice before during NaNo.

Once again I am going to be writing YA and have been working hard at my outline. Hopefully the change in methods and much more definite guidelines will help give me a boost. Fingers crossed, anyway.

Hi, I'm Laura~

I already did this on the old board, but too bad. I won last year, barely on time, and this year I'm planning to juggle scholarship exams and a steampunk adventure novel. I'm looking forwards to meeting up with all of you, since last year the whole group was just amazing.

Hi all I'm Rachael. Sort of an adopted region (as The Wairarapa actually has a region this year woot!)

However I'm a second/third year Vic uni student doing a BA in Media Studies and Asia Studies. I'm going to be doing a summer paper next tri which is the first part of the summer trimester and that works into November. However the reason I'm more the Wairarapa reason? I currently live in Masterton and commute on the days I have uni. Looking at flats around the region however so who knows :-)

Oh and the whole 2/3 year thing? it's my third year at vic but I changed my degree in my first year as students do :-)

I'm Courtzie, second time nano-er, first time in Welly though. I failed miserably last year and hoping to do much better this year. I have no reason to not have time to write, with no other commitments like work or school. My only hiccup will be travelling down to Christchurch for 5 days during nano to catch up with my family and to go help run the timing at Levels racetrack. I'll be giving it the best I can but hopefully I can stay ahead of myself.

My fiance is the one who introduced me to NaNoWriMo, he is Crystalmyst on here and we will be kicking each others butts to get it done.

I'm Sarah, and this is my second year doing NaNo, though, in all honesty, I didn't try too hard last year. :) I've drafted two manuscripts between then and now, so I'm pretty confident that I'll do better this year. I'm planning on writing either a YA fantasy/comedy (which I think could be fun) or a mystery/thriller (which is more in comfort zone). I'm basically a recluse most of the time, but I'm looking forward to surfacing and meeting you lovely people. :)

Hi there. I'm Anneliese and this is my third year attempting NaNo (and hopefully it will be my second year winning it). I generally stick to YA romance-y type stuff, but this year I'm going for adventure/fantasy type thing. NaNo is the best time to go out of your comfort zone after all, however I can foresee many 'what am I doing this for I'm going to fail' moments, even before November starts. So we'll see.

I'll actually be able to make it to write-ins this year, so I'm looking forward to meeting some of you people.

19 Days to Nano!!!!!
(Just thought I'd throw that out there! o.e....bwahahaha!!) Sorry, it seems I lost my sanity like the Springbokke lost against Oz. T_T

Hi everyone, I'm known by my penname Claire(short for Clairavance) in the online communities I'm part of. If I meet you in person I'll probably give you my real name, but as it stands, I'm more comfortable hiding behind my penname. Only because I know to run in the opposite direction if a complete stranger comes up to me and says 'hey Claire!'
You know. Just incase someone has it out for me. ;p

This is my third year of doing Nano! Hopefully I'll make it to the 50k this year. We'll see, though, because I have three kids to contend with now. Let's hope the kid-count doesn't go up with every year I do Nano.

I'm planning on spending all my time revising/rewriting a YA Paranormal novel I wrote a few years back. I've been tweaking it here and there but it still has a LOT of work, AND it's not novel-length yet. And with revising, my wordcount is likely to fall then rise, then fall again, then rise again, kinda like when my one year old started walking last year. Well. Actually, he still falls down quite a lot. >.

Hi! I'm Brat, This will be my fourth nanowrimo. I won it last year, but I was so bad in my first year I appear to have mentally blanked what I tried to write about. Because for the LIFE of me I cannot remember. I'll be returning to the lovely town of Wellytron, newly qualified (hopefully) on the 7th of November.

Last year I wrote about God sending a slightly hopeless angel to play for the All Blacks during the World Cup. Now that Stephen Donald has been picked I think we need the angel more than ever!

Ahem. because of my longstanding obsession with angelic things, this year i'm going to be writing a slightly more serious angel related novel, about an angel, a girl, a boy in a dress, and the search for the missing archangel Michael. Greyhound busses will be involved. Weekly weird news will be lampooned.

This year my goal is to get 50,000 typed words, because I can't afford a typist, and I gave myself carpal tunnel last year handwriting the entire thing.

Hello! I'm Christine!

I've been around for four years of this now, looking forward to this like usual except wait *KERSMASH* Exams to the 14th!? You have got to be kidding me!

So yes, in the past I have been a little bit crazy. I'm not going to get into that. This year I'm probably going to be lucky if I reach 50,000, if I am being perfectly honest. Do I have a plan? Well... yes and no. There has been a story spinning around in my brain like a cracked record of really terrible eighties music. Of course in my usual fantasy genre, even though I can never seem to make my stories end. I'm thinking of writing backwards this year. Well, write each chapter in reverse order. hguone tsaf siht ekil etirw nac I erus ton m'I. I'm not set on the idea yet. Usually I have a much stronger feeling for my characters, and that has yet to click, but there's still 19 days... or 33 if I'm good and wait till that last exam.

On the sad news front: probably not making it down to Wellington before December this year! I've been accepted for the Disney International Program (Ask me about it some time, or better read here http://kiwidisney.blogspot.com/ ) so before I head off in January I'm gonna spend some time with my university friends up here in Auckland and save up some more money.

But I'm sure I'll make it onto here while I'm procrastinating from those pesky exams. Drop me a buddy request whenever that starts working, I'm pretty friendly when I'm not grumpy ^_^