People of the Caribbean - Welcome!

How nostalgic haha. You're back at this again also?

:D I had some bad luck last year but I'm determined to beat it this year :]

Hopefully more writers from the Caribbean will return for this.

Hiya! I'm not living in the Carribean at the moment, but I have so much family in Trinidad it feels like it.

How's the danger? Do you know if it's getting any better?

NaNoWriMo 07: A Circlet of Stones (won!)
NaNoWriMo 08: The Time Lords (???)

Hi Kusumita, yes I'm back too.

I really don't know how it is going to be this year for me. i am involved in so many things, and work is so much stress!!! But what i really want to do is get those pep emails from the famous authors! I've actually read a bunch of Neil Gaiman books and I've seen the Garth Nix books around, never read them though.

You have any idea what you want to write? I usually stick with fantasy, but these days I'm wiritng all sorts of different things, I've written a romance short story and a SF short story. The idea I have for NaNo is a sort of chick lit. So basically i have no clue.

Hi internet_jumbie! You're very much welcome to hang around these parts. Well, about the crime and stuff, I think it is still bad. But now everyone is distracted by elections. It's on tne 5th of November. It's just madness all over the place!

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Haha. When you start getting older you get better but much more swamped with work

I have a rough idea of what I want but it still needs ALOT of doctoring before it fit to be written anyway; but mine is definately going into a mixed genre of Noir/Detective/Fantasy/Supernatural.

That sort of thing.

Ahh. Elections are a depressing thought either way you take it haha.
The crime isn't any better either ]:

Doubt it's gonna get better.

I'm happy to be back. I don't know how I'm going to do this year. I've so many self-imposed writing assignments. A great deal of it is nonfiction. So, I'll try my best. It'll be interesting though to see how others are doing.

Erwin K. Thomas

Hi there,

I'm just sneaking in, because I still feel a little Caribbean, unless it is two and a half years ago that I lived on Tobago. Maybe some of you remember me from last year, I was hanging around here a little. ;-)

Good luck and lots of words streaming from your brains directly through your fingertips into your novels!

I'm really unsure about what to write, but because there are some different ideas maybe I will have a short scene on an Caribbean island in my novel. I will tell you if it happens.

NaNo 2007: Das Jahr der Schafe (The Year of the Sheep)

Hi, my writings will be in Dutch. I will let the words come and flow where ever they will go. They will speak for themselves.
greetings from Curaçao

Hello Everyone,

I'm back, less prepared than last year, but I have my story in my head.

I wish I could send relentless Word Jumbies to run through everybody's heads, 'jamming' words left, right and centre. so that stories keep flowing, and fingers keep moving all through November.

Heatha

Heatha

Her Own Hero

Hello all,

This is my first time doing this, so I'm hoping to be able to meet the challenge.

I have the basis of the story I want to write, so I'm looking foward to starting come November 1.

Nice to meet you all.

Hello, all. I feel very excited but very unprepared this year. If there is anybody else writing in the USVI this year, drop me a line.

Good luck everybody!

Joe Breen
St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands

If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe. -- Carl Sagan

omg yay!
i found a thread with caribbean peeps
whats up everyone, this is my first attempt at NaNoWriMo :)
i recently heard about it actualy and decided why not :)

dont know that i will make it but, we'll see...

Hey there people, I was wondering if anyone would be coming back. I kind of ran off myself halfway through NaNo last year. Didn't have a properly worked out plot and had way too much school, hopefully this year will be better. *crosses fingers* :D

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NaNo 2006: Killing Cillian (Admirable failure.)
NaNo 2007: Jumbie Secondary

Hey Fei,

I travelled to Curaçao almost three years ago just before I lived on Tobago. It's a very nice and special island and I love Emma the old bridge! :-)

Greetings
chaosqueen
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NaNo 2007: Das Jahr der Schafe (The Year of the Sheep)

NaNo 2007: Das Jahr der Schafe (The Year of the Sheep)

Hi! Old Emma has been away for a long time to get repairs. But the thing is, that they asked bridge builders to do the repair. That should have been boat builders. Emma is a bridge on boats, isn't it. The new Emma is a stiff and heavy thing, that, in the first week she was replaced, broke loose from her bank-ends, because she couldn't dance. Somehow they fixed that but she doesn't swing the way she used to do. Oh well, change doesn't always bring about a better thing ...

In English there are Landscapes and Seascapes. In Dutch we only have Landscapes. I am thinking - for a NaNo title - to use Wordscapes. I can see by the red line, that is even in English a new word! But that is what I do, using words to create all kind of shapes, lands, countries, towns, nature, whatever.

greetings, Fei - which is short for Femia, a name that wasn't accepted for log-in.

I am thinking I should do the NaNo in English, the red stripes teach me a lot! ;-)

Hi everyone :)

Glad to see I am not the only USVI writer here! Seems we don't fit anywhere else which, after living on St. Croix for 13 years is a familiar feeling :)

This is my first NaNo. I am definitely nervous at the prospect, but excited at the same time.

Cheers everyone,

Nicole

Hello fellow Caribbeaners! I'm hailing from Jamaica! Whoo!~ This is my second year of doing Nano and I'm terribly excited! :D

Howdy guys,

Pardon me for sounding dumb, but how does one record word count? I've been looking, but can't seem to find how to do this.

Getting a tad bit frustrated here. :(

Edit Profile --> Author Info --> Word count =]

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- Katrina

maybe if i start to
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you'll listen then?

is not dumb at all , iwas wondering the sme until a short while ago
click edit profile aabove the nanowrimo logo and then select author info
in that page there is something that says word count or similar..

I work with Word, under options you find wordcount. I found that you have to fill out the number yourself on the NaNo page at user info , just above the screen where you paste your texts.
fei

Hmmmm
Well, I'm from Trinidad. My first time int his naNoWriMo thing. It's strange to see Trinidadian people posting replies in proper English. I'm enjoying this writing thing, I just wish I had more time to do it. I only get to write like 2 hours an evening. Work can be a bitch sometimes :(

~It Not Easy...Being Green...~

Thanks guys, appreciate it. Found out how by going to another site and asking someone a lot more experienced at this thing than I am.

Fyrefoxx, I know how it is with wanting to write and not being able to find the time, but 2 hours are better than nothing. I took a week off work last week and now I'm about to have a breakdown at the fact that I've not written anywhere near my target since going back to the office.

I suppose them's the breaks. :(

Indeed, but I think the weekends are great for playing catch-up. I got to around 4500 words now, I could probably finish up to 6000 by the end of today. I really would have liked to hit 7500, but sadly, that doesn't look at all possible

~It Not Easy...Being Green...~

I'm writing up a storm myself, hoping to get enough words in during this weekend, so as not to have to stress myself to keep up during the week, when I won't be writing nearly as much. Good luck with the word count!

thanks, you too!
I hit 7500 and passed it this morning with my 4th Chapter. It's flowing really easily, I don't think I'll end up with a block for this one. usually I get blocked mid-novel and actually have to think to figure it out

~It Not Easy...Being Green...~

New here! Posting from Dominican Republic! Hope to make friends :)

We're just here... Mikz n' Trikz
www.mikzntrikz.com
Our writing studio: http://luphoria.blogspot.com

Hola from The Bahamas, neighbour!

...not as good as she thinks she is...

Hi everyone,
Just wishing you all good luck and hoping to do my part next year my internet connection just came back up so I'm waaaay!! behind. But I'm rooting for ya'll.

Hello everyone! I am very new to nanorimo. I guess most of you are editing your 2007 nanorimo novels this time of the month. Well I hope everyone is ok. Happy new years...