Anyone on the south coast? We've shifted to Bega so I'm part of the Elsewhere mob this year.
Who else is about, if anyone?
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Rori
2004 - Eira of Tir :: Tir Chronicles Book 1 (winner)
2005 - skipped
2006 - The Island of Origin :: Tir Chronicles Book 2 (winner)
2007 - untitled! :: Tir Chronicles Book 3
1,695 / 50,000
Oct 3, 2007 - 20 11
I think Wollongong's south coast, yes? lol Not quite as far south, though :D
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2006 - A New Sensation (22,748)
2007 - Move Along (849/50,000)
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Oct 4, 2007 - 06 15
Pretty sure Albion Park counts as South Coast, so I'm chiming in too. :)
----------NaNo '07: Tuesday's Child
Book One in Fifty Miles West Of Normal
NaNo '08: Thicker Than Water
Book Two in Fifty Miles West Of Normal
1,695 / 50,000
Oct 4, 2007 - 07 40
You're 15 minutes inland :P
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2006 - A New Sensation (22,748)
2007 - Move Along (849/50,000)
50,261 / 50,000
Oct 4, 2007 - 08 20
Well, I don't live that far from Lake Illawarra - Albion Park Rail's right on Koona Bay, I think, and it's only a few minutes from there to where I am - so technically I still live on the coast, nyah :p
----------NaNo '07: Tuesday's Child
Book One in Fifty Miles West Of Normal
NaNo '08: Thicker Than Water
Book Two in Fifty Miles West Of Normal
50,261 / 50,000
Oct 17, 2007 - 05 43
The thread's been dead for over a week, so I thought I'd liven things up a bit. :) What's everyone writing this year?
I'm writing an urban fantasy, six-fandom crossover set in a boarding school for elemental teenagers. I'm poaching characters from Hanson, Harry Potter, Torchwood, Charmed, Buffy and Supernatural, and I wish it was November first already so I could get cracking on it. 'Tis going to be a hoot and a half. I can't wait to get started.
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Book One in Fifty Miles West Of Normal
NaNo '08: Thicker Than Water
Book Two in Fifty Miles West Of Normal
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Oct 21, 2007 - 19 26
I'm working on book 3 of a 5 book series. Junior fiction fantasy... think Narnia with vampires and cranky pubescents who can throw fire.
Very much looking forward to it :)
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Rori
2004 - Eira of Tir :: Tir Chronicles Book 1 (winner)
2005 - skipped
2006 - The Island of Origin :: Tir Chronicles Book 2 (winner)
2007 - untitled! :: Tir Chronicles Book 3
207,445 / 50,000
Oct 28, 2007 - 20 33
Sounds great, Mistress Aeryn. Don't forget to post excerpts so we can all enjoy it.
----------Do or do not; there is no try. Yoda
50,257 / 50,000
Oct 30, 2007 - 01 46
Another Wollongong Wrimo (well, Thirroul, actually). I'm not sure exactly what I'll be working on, but I suspect it will be a science-fiction-farce-semi-romance-adventure-romp-with-a-deep-and-lasting-meaning. Or not.
-- Laura
----------NaNoWriMo 07: winner (Mud and Glass, 50K)
Script Frenzy 08: winner (The Death of Albatross, 119 pages)
www.lauragoodin.com
lauragoodin.blogspot.com
50,301 / 50,000
Oct 30, 2007 - 05 05
Hm. Does roughly four hours inland count, i.e. Goulburn area? XD Otherwise it seems I'm all on my own!
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Oct 30, 2007 - 16 25
Yo South Coasties!
I'm from the Jamberoo-ish area.
I'm a WriMo virgin... Hell, I'm a "Wri" virgin, full-stop. Never written anything apart from university reports, essays and other such dry fluff.
Back in the day before university sapped away all my creative energies, I did have some aspiration to write trashy sci-fi-fantasy-romance novels. As I am wrought with insufferable perfectionistic tendencies, I never started anything for fear of failure.
I figure WriMo is a great way to help kick the perfectionistic habit. It's also an excellent mode of procrastination.
Not sure of what I'll write about. Not even sure which genre. Probably fantasy. No elves though. And if there are elves, they'll be jerks. And women will not have massive heaving breasts clad in impractical, revealing armour.
Anyway, it should be fun :)
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Questing for Perfectionism's End
50,301 / 50,000
Oct 31, 2007 - 01 25
Jamberoo! Nice place. :D I'm also a newcomer to the NaNo madness, although I've been tempted to join in for the past two years. I don't think I'm entirely considered South Coast, but there seems to be no one else in my area, so seeing as I'm reasonably close to the coast ... eh. I'll pretend I leave near the beach, anyway. XD
And if you write a fantasy novel with small-breasted, normally-clad women and jerky elves, I will be petitioning every fantasy publisher in the country to get your book published to give some of us a break from perfect, gorgeous elves and women who are there just to look 'stunning' (and big-breasted) and wearing ridiculous, small armour half the time and nothing at all the other half. XD
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Oct 31, 2007 - 04 18
May I just say... LESS THAN TWO HOURS!!!!
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2006 - A New Sensation (22,748)
2007 - Move Along (849/50,000)
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Oct 31, 2007 - 05 13
Hey Everyone! I'm from Nowra. Cool to see a fair few people from the same area. Less than an hour to go for us now. Good luck to everyone. I hope we can all, I don't know, help each out from time to time.
I'm writing a fantasy, based on the Greek Gods but set in the modern day. Lol, yes I'm bad at giving descriptions. And I didn't want to go crazy with the detail.
50,257 / 50,000
Oct 31, 2007 - 14 47
I wrote 200 words, starting at 12:03 local, before going to sleep last night -- and now for the rest of today's quota!
----------NaNoWriMo 07: winner (Mud and Glass, 50K)
Script Frenzy 08: winner (The Death of Albatross, 119 pages)
www.lauragoodin.com
lauragoodin.blogspot.com
50,261 / 50,000
Nov 2, 2007 - 20 32
Ooh, I'm near Jamberoo :)
And I'm writing fantasy myself - it's sort of urban fantasy, though it's not set in the city. It's set in a town I invented that's up in the Blue Mountains, based on Albion Park (well, there and in Nimbin). And when Word decides it wants to behave itself I can get started working on today's lot of writing...
----------NaNo '07: Tuesday's Child
Book One in Fifty Miles West Of Normal
NaNo '08: Thicker Than Water
Book Two in Fifty Miles West Of Normal
50,257 / 50,000
Nov 3, 2007 - 01 41
How's everyone doing? Still enthused?
-- Laura in Thirroul (Wollongong)
----------NaNoWriMo 07: winner (Mud and Glass, 50K)
Script Frenzy 08: winner (The Death of Albatross, 119 pages)
www.lauragoodin.com
lauragoodin.blogspot.com
207,445 / 50,000
Nov 3, 2007 - 16 04
Yeah, still coasting along nicely. I'm finally in the groove after a couple of days of writing stuff that's... well, going to need a lot of editing. How's everyone else doing?
----------Do or do not; there is no try. Yoda
50,261 / 50,000
Nov 4, 2007 - 00 34
I hit 10K in the wee small hours of this morning and am still happily typing along. :D
----------NaNo '07: Tuesday's Child
Book One in Fifty Miles West Of Normal
NaNo '08: Thicker Than Water
Book Two in Fifty Miles West Of Normal
50,257 / 50,000
Nov 4, 2007 - 01 26
10K? Yowie! I'm at 7K, and took today to spend quality time with the family (a decision I am glad I made -- balance is important!). I may get a few hundred written tonight before getting stuck back in tomorrow; after all, every word I write tonight is one fewer to worry about on Nov 29....
-- Laura
----------NaNoWriMo 07: winner (Mud and Glass, 50K)
Script Frenzy 08: winner (The Death of Albatross, 119 pages)
www.lauragoodin.com
lauragoodin.blogspot.com
50,301 / 50,000
Nov 4, 2007 - 03 13
I'm going surprisingly well, and wondering what brought on my spate of writing easiness. I've never written so much so quickly. Glad to see everyone is going so well!
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Nov 4, 2007 - 05 26
Precisely. *nods*
I've mostly written so much because I have my HSC Drama exam this Friday afternoon, a Creative Arts interview at UOW on the 26th, and my Year 12 Formal on the 30th. I'm therefore trying to write enough for myself to fall back on should I happen to miss a day or two of writing this week. My mother is making me study so much I swear my brain is going to leak out my ears...
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NaNo '07: Tuesday's Child
Book One in Fifty Miles West Of Normal
Off-season: November Rain
----------WC: 20,938 / 90K
Estimated date of completion: May 29 2008
NaNo '07: Tuesday's Child
Book One in Fifty Miles West Of Normal
NaNo '08: Thicker Than Water
Book Two in Fifty Miles West Of Normal
207,445 / 50,000
Nov 29, 2007 - 17 59
I'm done. Done with writing and done in.
But, I've now got two books to edit in January - I'm not looking at the work until then.
Now I get to do all those chores I've been ignoring for the past month!
----------Do or do not; there is no try. Yoda