Hello internets...
Anyone writing in Scotland's premier city?
What are you planning? How well-developed are your ideas? Or are you planning on flying by the seat of your pants, getting through by the skin of your teeth? How many dwarves are in your work? How many alien races? How many times does your heroine get betrayed by a low-down dirty dog of a man? How many of your character's names have unnecessary apostrophes in them? How many killings? How many babies? How are you going to get your lead characters to fall in love, and how will they escape from that maniac with the lopsided smile and the ridiculously large collection of knives? How the hell did you wind up with an ornithologist lead character called Malcolm Mallard?
And how's your mental state? I'm slightly concerned, and will probably be moving through anxiety to mild panic to something approaching blind terror around the 31st of October. But hey, I did it last year so how hard can it be...
Share the pain. Spread around the joy. You may begin now.
S.
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2006 - Bulldozer, 51018 words. Win!
2007 - Let me come up with something, whatever anything...
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Oct 3, 2007 - 02 50
I'll be a transplant from San Francisco (the home of NaNoWriMo?) this year, and am looking forward to tackling the event in a new city. I'm not a planner, more of a designer, so I know what my chapters will look like, if not what they'll be about.
In light of your comments about the blind terror, I have to remind you this is supposed to be about excitement. Then again, fear causes adrenaline, which is exciting, right? ;)
-R
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Oct 3, 2007 - 02 53
Aha, fear causes adrenalin, yes. Wise words.
So, why flee the beautiful weather of San Francisco for the less beautiful weather of Glasgow?
S.
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Oct 3, 2007 - 04 21
I tried this a couple of years ago, and managed to produce a measly 30,000 words of gibberish. This year, I'll be hoping to bolster my attempt with an assortment of waffle, pish and balderdash.
But sadly, no crooked-mouthed, knife-wielding, cyber dwarves.
At least, not yet.
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Oct 4, 2007 - 03 58
I am in Paisley but close enough. Any interested in doing meets like there were last year? 13th note or Mono?
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Oct 7, 2007 - 05 53
I'd be up for the occasional write-in, family commitments permitting .... anywhere goes for me; I live outside Glasgow so I need to travel wherever we end up.
As for the Paragraph of Questions:
I'm planning a fantasy novel; reasonably; I'll do that for the unplanned bits; none; none (so far); hmm, I might have to put that in the plot (not!); none; quite a few, I think! *EG*; one; slowly; quickly; because the name Donald Duck was already taken.
Mental state? Same as usual - reasonably doolally! :D
Last year was my first time at NaNo and I bombed. This year will be different! It will! Of course it will!
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Oct 9, 2007 - 15 21
I'm back. Don't know what the plot is this year, yet, I have more focus than I've had in past years, so once I no where I'm going I'll get all the way there! Looking forward to actually showing up at write-ins this yeat!
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Oct 9, 2007 - 15 22
I'm back. Don't know what the plot is this year, yet, I have more focus than I've had in past years, so once I no where I'm going I'll get all the way there! Looking forward to actually showing up at write-ins this year!
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Oct 10, 2007 - 03 40
Nanowrimo virgin. Loved the sound of the word so thought I would go mad and join. I can blog about 50k words in a month but a novel? Wow......hoping I can come up with some kind of plot....especially if it has a dwarf in it!
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Oct 11, 2007 - 08 03
I'm taking the plunge for the first time too. If anyone's living near the Morrison's in Shawlands and wants to have any coffee in November, I suggest they buy it now before I sweep the entire stock from the shelves. 50,000 words of pure mince, pish and bollocks coming up.
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Oct 11, 2007 - 13 07
Hulllooooooooo......*waves*
Cant wait to get started again - ive missed you crazies - and for those ive lost touch with -well - second times a charm?
No plan as usual. lol.
Write in's? Defo! :)
Love
Scot
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Oct 11, 2007 - 13 31
Hullo!
I'm a Glasgow Uni fresher from Spain. This will be my third attemp (yes, attempt, I still haven't won) and I plan no winning! I hope we can meet around and have some horribly stressfull fun. :D
I'm just wishing I get a laptop before November. :P
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Oct 12, 2007 - 10 54
Live just outside Paisley and trying this forthe first time. Change my mind about what my plot is about twice a week but may stick with my horror novel, so far i've got notes along the lines of "the giggly thing" and "one last song before i die". Would love to meet up with other people.
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Oct 13, 2007 - 07 37
Hello everyone
I am also new to nanowriting. I live in Ayrshire, but I will tag along with the glasgow people if you all don't mind??? I don't want to make a new thread for only me!
what kind of preparations are you making? So far, I've tried to do all the decorating in the previous months, so I can get a good shot at having a couple hours free every night for this. i haven't nano'd before, but can imagine it's really quite difficult.
Regards the story, I have a plot, and some idea of the characters and what I want to do with them. Whether or not they'll behave is an entirely different matter. Looking forward to November the 1st and of course the 30th ... heehee... good luck everyone.
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Oct 14, 2007 - 13 01
I live just outside Glasgow, but I go to uni in Paisley so I'm all over the place really. I'd be up for some write ins, sounds like fun. I'm writing a kinda weird, almost science-fiction-ey novel I think. I have the basic premise, but I keep changing my mind as to how it all pans out. Ah well, having dozens of endings can't really be a bad thing.
I don't suppose there's anyone else from East Kilbride, no?
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Oct 14, 2007 - 13 48
I go to Paisley as well, what a strange coincidence...
This is the first time I've taken part, so I'm planning to write a novel so good that if I even began to explain it your face would explode. I'll worry about the specifics, such as... all of it, later. I'm in Glasgow every day during the week, so I'm up for getting involved in the full nanowrimo experience.
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Oct 15, 2007 - 03 41
Well this is my first nanowimo so i'm not quite sure what i'll do, little over a month to prepare tho so should be fun, I'm in my 3rd year of uni at the fine institue of CAledonian university, so i'll have to work around exams, moving house, my b-day and my job to get this done.
but am i excited about it? HELL YEAH!
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Oct 15, 2007 - 11 28
Live in Paisley, work in Glasgow. Wussed out of signing up last year, found myself signing up this year because I was bored at work and trying to keep AWAY from Amazon.
Plot? What plot?
50000 words.... 2000 words or five pages a day, and five days off too. Piece of piss. Oh no... that'll be my writing!!
Looking forward to it, but seriously bricking it.
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Oct 16, 2007 - 03 44
Live in Falkirk, work in Falkirk, but Glasgow looks more fun...
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Oct 16, 2007 - 05 14
We really got some movemente, great! Does someone know if or who are our MLs?
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Oct 16, 2007 - 06 02
ML???? ML????? Hmmmmmmmmmm
Mother Lodes
Mid Lengths?
Mud Licker?
Master (of) Literature?
Mechanical Lover?
Nope sorry, need more clues.....?
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Oct 16, 2007 - 07 23
Hahahahahaha...I like some of those, I'll keep'em handy to mock whoever gets to be our ML, which actually mean: Municipal Liason. They're the selfless people that oficially organize local write-ins and the such.
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Oct 16, 2007 - 08 01
True Love. :) (Isn't that a poetic reason?)
It also happens to be my birthday on the second, so that combined with a lovely relationship, seemed the perfect excuse to visit!
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Oct 16, 2007 - 09 15
Dont think anyone has volunteered :)
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Oct 16, 2007 - 12 33
Hi everyone, I'm in Glasgow area too. This is my first time doing this, although I've thought about it previous years...then thought of lots of reasons why I couldn't do it!
Not sure what I'm writing about yet, but I've still got a week or so to decide in :-)
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Oct 16, 2007 - 16 37
hi all
east kilbrider here
its my first time joined on a complete whim and am now seiously freaking out.
strong feeling i will have no hair and/or nails left by the end of november.
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Oct 17, 2007 - 03 44
That sounds good. I'm brand new and haven't a scooby what I'm writing yet!
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Oct 17, 2007 - 03 46
:-D
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Oct 17, 2007 - 03 54
Hello! I'm Jen, I'm 26 and have signed up after receiving the reminder E-mail from NaNo today. Because I had pretty much forgotten about this since last year, I have no ideas, dwarfish or otherwise (though that sounds like a heck of an interesting book). However, I'm willing to give this a go, both for fun and to give my brain cells a much-needed clear-out.
Any meetings in and around Glasgow I should be fine for, someone said Mono or 13th Note which would suit me fine. Any other ideas I'll be pretty much happy with. Only thing is I have something happening till 2nd November (going to see Rent the musical in London), so I will be starting late (gulp!).
Best of luck to everybody, hope to meet and get to know many of you.
Jen
xxx
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Oct 17, 2007 - 11 12
Hello!
This is my first NaNoWriMo experience too and my plot is still a vague and hazy meandering. Looking forward to giving it a shot though and would be great to meet up in or around Glasgow for some strong coffee and idea sharing with fellow writers.
Good luck to you all!
Amanda
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Oct 18, 2007 - 14 06
Live in Paisley, but go to Glasgow Uni, hurrah. Signed up to NaNoWriMo to fill in the seemingly endless stretches of time between lectures, usually spent haunting the local coffee shops and staring into space in a sort of caffeine-induced daze. I still plan on haunting said cafés and consuming as much (if not more) caffeine, but now I shall be doing something productive while I'm at it!
With regards to plot, I have a sort of swirling epic fantasy romance sort of loosely planned ... and when I say loosely planned, I mean I have no concrete plot, no definite characters, and no idea where the whole thing is going to be set ... actually, now I come to think of it, I've only really got the genre sorted. Hmm. Sure I'll think of something, though.