Come on out of the woodwork!

I'm back again for this year. I still don't know what I'm going to write this year, not even what genre it will be in, but I definitely intend on keeping up my winning streak.

I'm hoping that once again some of the Western Massachusetts folks will be able to pull together.... I seem to recall that our weekly meetings at Panera Bread in Hadley actually went quite well last year, so maybe we can do that again.

- Ashavan

I wrote the powers at be about being a ML for the five-college area (I'm in Northampton) and never heard back. I think we're allowed two. I am limited in area travel to what I can get to on my bike, so I couldn't cover all of western Mass. My argument to the NaNo peeps was that the five college area deserved its own niche outside of Western Mass. anywho...

I did really well last year with my NaNo (finished in 22 days) and psyched for this year.

write ins are always helpful, and general camaraderie.

-matthew

I can't wait for NaNo this year. I did it two years ago and finished We Hail From Nowhere: In Nowhere it Hails quite proudly. Last year I decided I was too "busy" to do NaNo and regretted it. So this year, regardless of how busy I am, I am going to write a 50k word novel in the month of November. If we do something in the Hadley/Northampton area, I probably would be able to make it to one or two meetings.

I'm back in for my third attempt; I won three years ago, and faltered last year due to a bout of the plague (but still raked in ~30K words, which isn't bad).
Not sure how around I'll be for meetup sort of things - that'll depend on how the school year pans out - but time will tell!

Hi Everybody,

My name is Glenn and I'm new to Nanowrimo, sort of. I think I had an attempt that failed after day one last year or the year before. But this year is going to be different. Really! I'm already working on a plot synopsis and I've had a trial run to see how long it takes me to write just sort of stream of consciousness.

My inspiration is to write sort of a gay pride and prejudice set in Vermont and Western Mass in the period between the ratification of Vermont Civil Unions and the legalization of Massachusetts gay marriage. I'm stealing my plot whole hog from Jane Austen to make it easier and to keep me from exploring the murky depths of my subconscious which tend to turn up things I don't want to think about at all, never mind write 50,000 words about.

I've taken the liberty of creating a google group called NoHoNaNoWriMo. I thought it might be something we could use at least temporarily until the nano website is up to speed. It should work to go to groups.google.com and then search for NoHoNaNoWriMo.

And yeah, getting together at a cafe to do some outlining would be great!

Glenn

Hello,

Looks like I'm the first Springfield-area person to rear their head. This is my first NaNoWriMo, so I am, of course, looking forward to being totally inspired and perfectly in touch with my literary muse.

(Don't worry, deep down I know I'm in for it.)

Anyway, I'm currently going in a YA fantasy direction; if all goes well, it'll be a month of strange happenings and moral ambiguities.

Looking forward to hearing about some events. A trip up 91 is nothing to me, if need be.

Another woodniff here. This will be my sixth year participating, winning four, and perks for my first novel - Brekleby Press - to be released soon.

I havew two stories that I'm debting on and both are outlined as much as i can before actually writing. the first one is on a crooked contact lenses manufcturing company and the second is an urban fiction of a community and it's chracters. Not sure which one I'll be doing yet. Still working on titles for them also.

unfortunately, I will be with the group in spirit and online cause i'm in Ware (next to palmer for those not familiar with anything past amherst or belchertown) and don't have a car. But i feel we still have the strength in numbers. Go Western Mass!

Hey, congratulations on the upcoming novel!! That's fantastic.

I'm game for more orange starfish club meetings!
I'm in for nano.
Not talking about plot until Nov 1st though.
I have my ideas.

Yay!

Every time I've gone into Panera all year, I've thought of NaNo. I missed the unending coffee and the word wars. Looking forward to November!

Hurrah! I'm up for some writing at UMass if anyone else is - I know in years past we've gathered in the Bluewall on Tuesday nights, and although I'm no longer a student I'm still singing with the choir, and Tuesday/Thursday evenings work fantasically for me. I can also make it to various locations along routes 9 and 91, but I'd like to conserve as much gas as possible, so UMass and the bus route is preferred.

On the other hand if anyone -else- is also in Sunderland...

I've been doing NaNo for years, and though I've never actually completed anything during the period I did manage to finish one book (started during NaNo!) outside of it. I love the write-ins and use the month both as an opportunity to meet people and as fuel for writing motivation. Hope to see some of you soon!

I live in Northampton (may be moving to Holyoke soon) and work in Hadley. I hope we get to have weekly meet-ups this year. I didn't participate last year but that sounds amazing.

Well I live in Easthampton and while I could make it to Hadley I was hoping we could have a couple of closer meetings too. Maybe some place actually in Easthampton or even Northampton. If anyone else is interesed let me know and we can talk about it.

I also live in Easthampton, and I plan to do some of my writing at coffee shops in town on weekends, rather than holing up in my apartment all day. I would love to have a few write-ins here in town.

So, I'm in way way western Mass...Williamstown. I've been trying to get something started in the northern Berkshires. Slow going. Anyway, Inkberry, which is a literary org. in North Adams is making their office available on Thursdays from 10-4. I'm working on adding some evening hours.

Afraid that Panera is too far for me. I could be writing during all those driving hours. Maybe I could try Dragonspeak and dictate while I drive, but that would probably have to wait until 2008. There's enough on my plate already, as a new, petrified NaNo writer.

Hi Ho Folks,

Finally taking the NaNoWriMo plunge after two years of thinking about it and shuffling my feet, thanks to some friendly prodding. Trying not to dwell too much on my plan at the moment (which I'm very excited about!), but slightly afraid that I'm biting off something too high-concept without enough content to moisten it to palatable. Right now, I'm just enjoying the delicious anticipation while it lasts.

Banzai, maplesuckers.

I'm here, I'll be jumping in with both feet again. No prep -- I hate outlining! And once again I'll be committing Space Opera.

Hello everyone!

Hi! Smithie English major here. I'm doing something on a college girl in Manhattan at the end of WWII. This is technically my 3rd time NaNoing but essentially my first as I wasn't able to really do much of anything with it the last 2 years. I'm very excited! And I'm definitely interested in meetups!

Hey gents and ladies. I'm all about chilling hardcore in the Pioneer Valley.

Anyway, I'm a non-writer. I don't write as a hobbyist, and I haven't written anything creative since my January 2006 intro to writing class, and the longest thing I wrote in there was... like three pages. A friend mentioned this to me, and since I just dropped a class, I'm transferring, I'm one flighty bitch and I don't do anything that's not strictly self-indulgent good-time having, I thought this would be a good way to have fun, try to stretch my imagination's wings and give myself some kind of structure.

My novel's going to be about a girl's relationship with her family (ooh.). The family (like mine) suffers from a curse; when you hit 40, you turn your life over to Jesus. The family's different, though, and the girl is not entirely me, but like I said, I'm not... creative. At any rate, all the present action will be entirely fictionalized, though the town is real and the girl, family and friends are grounded in real-life people (mainly combinations of several people).

I dunno what it is. I've checked out the Litfic forum, but I don't know about that. Their ideas seem to be more complicated and angsty than mine. I could give into the urge and write a balls-out angstfest thing, but I want it to be lighter or funnier or something. I guess we'll see. I've never written anything *creative* that was longer than three pages and I've certainly never written a novel. I'm pretty stoked, though.

So! Hey, that was longer than I intended. I might be able to come to a meeting, gathering or something if it's in the valley.

Hey all! Second time Nano-er here. Last year I started from scratch on the first day and managed to get about 35k before time ran out/the story fizzled and died. I kept telling myself I wouldn't do this to myself again, but... here I am! I have only vague notions of a storyline, but hopefully something will come together in time for me to do a rough sketch before the chaos hits. I'd definitely be down for write-ins in the Holyoke/Northampton/Amherst-ish area, so I guess I'll keep checking back here and see what develops!

I would love to do that.

Hello all,

I'm new to this whole hectic writing business, but I've always wanted to finish a tale so I figured the best way to do it would be something like this!

I've done scarce planning (read: none), but I think I should be good once I get going. I'll going to attempt to write an Urban Fantasy-esque sort of story. That's nice and vague and non-committal. There isn't really much of a premise yet, but it'll take place mostly in a city?

Anyway, I could be up for meeting up with folks to keep motivated.

first timer here from northampton. I'm in high school, so it'll be, uh, interesting to see how I can juggle homework and writing. also, I just got my license so I'm down for meetups, etc.

Hey everyone, greetings from Amherst - it's good to see so many people interested in giving this a shot. Maybe this year, I can actually finish something. Let's all encourage one another and push through the tough spots. Take care.

Sounds like we have a nice Easthampton Contingent this year.

We should schedule something out in this neck of the woods!

Who likes Sunrise? or Manhan? or the Coffee Roasters?

My vote is definitely for the Shelburne Falls. I know I'll be out of town one of the weekends this month (writing with a few NaNo friends in Vermont, in fact). And this weekend I plan to just hole up in my apartment to catch up on my writing. But a Saturday or Sunday afternoon write-in at the coffee shop would be nice.

Hello everyone,

New to the idea of NaNo and getting a bit of a late start.
I'm down a tad south of Springfield.
I'm not sure about meetups at this time (Hadley's a bit far), but I like the idea.

This is really my first attempt at writing anything resembling a book, tho' I've written plenty of non-fiction in the line of work.
I finally decided to tackle this because of an 'I can do better than this' moment.

My book falls in the line of murder/mystery.

Hi All,

First-time Nanoer here, just wanting to say hello. I live in the Springfield area. This is the first time I have attempted to write anything more than 13,000 words, so it will be a challenge. I am writing a horror novel of the Lovecraftian variety. So far I've got a good pace going and I'm really enjoying it.

Good luck to everyone and here's hoping we all hit 50k!