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There are a bunch more for more specific interests related to NaNoWriMo and lots of interested users for browsing purposes.
Maybe too many to sort through easily. We should probably introduce ourselves!
Username: Shipwreck_light
* Intro post is specifically over this way.
Location: Southwest US.
Age/Sex/Gender/Other Relevant Facts Along Those Lines: Mid 20's, mostly girlish.
Years Done NaNo: This is #6!
About This Year's NaNo: Brainscrew sci-fi with porn. Yay porn.
Contents of Journal: What you see is what you get. Lots of prattling on about writing, hobby horses and all the weird stuff that happens in my vicinity. It is a fairly new journal, but I try to post at least once a day. Sometimes while drunk.
Looking for NaNoMates Who...: Are interested in being bosom buddies through sickness and in health, happiness and writers' block.
Trebuchet?: Hell yes.
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-K.
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Oct 2, 2009 - 12 23
Wooo livejournal. I love it.
Username: augustfalcon
----------Location: US for the first few weeks of November, Europe after that
Age/Sex/Gender/Other Relevant Facts Along Those Lines: approximately 18, approximately male?
Years Done NaNo: participant/winner in 2006, 2007, 2008
About This Year's NaNo: wizard detective agency vs supervillian-possessed cornfields, or something like that
Contents of Journal: It's pretty random, but it does have a lot of writing talk. I've had it for several years and I don't usually vanish for more than a week or two at a time. I'll be doing a lot of traveling in the near future, so I'll be writing about that and posting photos. I spend more time in other people's journals and communities than I do in my own.
Looking for NaNoMates Who...: Aren't only on livejournal during Nano. It's fine if your journal is only about writing, but I don't want it to be so that we only talk once a year. That would be sad. :(
Trebuchet?: It could happen.
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Oct 2, 2009 - 13 36
Username: sushimustwrite
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Location: metro Atlanta, US
Age/Sex/Gender/Other Relevant Facts Along Those Lines: 22, female
Years Done NaNo: This is number eight
About This Year's NaNo: I'll let you know when I figure it out.
Contents of Journal: What you see is pretty much what you get. I'm trying to write more real content on my actual website, so LJ is (gasp) a life journal.
Looking for NaNoMates Who...: Aren't easily offended and (preferably) use LJ for more than just NaNo. I like writing journals, but it's hard to figure out who's around and who isn't when NaNo is over.
Trebuchet?: Bring it.
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http://www.sushimustwrite.com
Look for Adventures in Wrimonia (a novel about a NaNo novelist) to be posted in December!
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Oct 2, 2009 - 15 55
I don't use it too often, but I'm always willing to make friends =]
Username: milzilla
----------Location: Oz
Age/Sex/Gender/Other Relevant Facts Along Those Lines: 17+girl
Years Done NaNo: This is my 3rd
About This Year's NaNo: Uhh...superheroes who aren't all that super?
Contents of Journal: Er...2 posts. Both are Merthur fanfics.
Looking for NaNoMates Who...: Are friendly =]
Trebuchet?: Oh yes.
2007: A History of Wings
2008: Elemental Brats
2009: The Un-Super Heroes
50,020 / 50,000
Oct 2, 2009 - 17 32
Username: reesemills09
Location: Sweet Home Alabama
Age/Sex/Etc.: 17, female, um...a little crazy?
Years Doing NaNo: This is the 3rd.
About This Year's NaNo: A couple of elves try to save the world from a mass of bloodthirsty sirens. Sort of a darker fantasy.
Contents of Journal: Completely random.
Looking for NaNoMates Who... Well, since no one reads my journal, I guess ones who will read it.
43,013 / 50,000
Oct 2, 2009 - 18 43
Username: sasquatch_223
----------Location: Canada
Age/Sex/Etc.: 13, female
Years Doing NaNo: This is the first.
About This Year's NaNo: I have absolutely no idea.
Contents of Journal: Crap. I don't post very often (I used to have a collection of fanfics, but decided to delete them after rereading some of the cliched and purply prose). I read my flist every day though, and comment on friends' posts a lot.
Looking for NaNoMates Who... Um. I don't know.
Cups of Tea Consumed: 52
Books Read During NaNo That Influenced My Plot/Characters: 10
Vlogbrothers Videos Watched: 35
Times Screwed Up in Class Because of Not Paying Attention: 17
Spazzes: 4
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Oct 2, 2009 - 19 29
Hmm, I feel like the proverbial perverted old man. I've been a member of the LJ Nanowrimo community for several years, but nobody knows that since I post over there about once a year, and sometimes not that often. Now seeing everyone's profiles, it's kinda creepy being an old guy in a sea of teenage girls.
Username: swf
Location: Minnesota
Age/Sex/Etc.: 42, male and will become a grandpa in only a few more months!!
Years Doing NaNo: Attempt #5 this year!!
About This Year's NaNo: 2 concepts that I'm forcing together. #1 - MC continually gets taken advantage of and scammed while trying to be helpful/generous. #2 - MC discovers his society (a post-apocalyptic bubble city connected to a space station via a space elevator) is isolationist and tries to escape.
Contents of Journal: I have no contents, but this year I've started posting my 30 days of worldbuilding exercises
Looking for NaNoMates Who... care about objective reality
-swf
46,108 / 50,000
Oct 2, 2009 - 20 00
Username: http://trusttheonions.livejournal.com
Location: Auckland, New Zealand
Age/Sex/Gender/Other Relevant Facts Along Those Lines: Age: 18, Sex: Female. Gender is also female.
Years Done NaNo: Did it for the first time last year.
About This Year's NaNo: Still fairly undecided. Genre will be humor though. It will either be set in an English university, a Scottish fishing village or a cliffside mansion in Romania.
Contents of Journal: To ensure total accuracy and consumer satisfaction, I have looked up my last five posts. They are, a post in which I translated the lyrics of 'Ballroom Blitz' into German, then French, then back into English, a post savagely decrying my art school, a post apologizing to my Livejournal in a sexually implicit way for spending more time on Twitter, a pitifully boring post detailing my first week of holidays and a mock letter written to Studylink (NZ's student loan provider) parodying their insatiable need for 'more information'.
Looking for NaNoMates Who...: Like to talk about Nano regularly, have writing races and help each other with ideas.
Trebuchet?: Gesundheit!
----------Nanowrimo 2008: This Tepid Madness (lost, 26,000 words - Q10 lost my novel :'( )
Script Frenzy 2009: A Collection of Comedy Sketches (won, 100 pages)
NanoWrimo 2009: A Harvest of Bad Company
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Oct 2, 2009 - 20 12
Username: cabinfever310
----------Location: Somewhere over the Rainbow
Age/Sex/Gender/Other Relevant Facts Along Those Lines: 20, female
Years Done NaNo: Hmm... this is number six for me as well.
About This Year's NaNo: Mostly me following a character after his boyfriend gets sent to prison. I mostly have a vague idea about what's going to happen, but I guess it's just me getting to know one of my favorite soft spoken characters a little more. (:
Contents of Journal: Um, not updated that regularly, but maybe I will do so more often during Nano. It's usually me rambling or posting story snippets.
Looking for NaNoMates Who...: are friendly and kinda weird.
Trebucet?: sure!
Feet don't waltz when the roof caves in. . .
42,537 / 50,000
Oct 2, 2009 - 22 14
Username: rii-namuras
Location: Hong Kong.
Age/Sex/Gender/Other Relevant Facts Along Those Lines: 18, Female, Student.
Years Done NaNo: This is my second.
About This Year's NaNo: Urban fantasy set in Hong Kong.
Contents of Journal: Life stuff is locked, but other than that most stuff is public so you can see for yourself. Tends to be very politics-based, though.
Looking for NaNoMates Who...: Don't mind writing and art interspersed with rants about American politics.
Trebuchet?: Sure why not.
160,160 / 50,000
Oct 3, 2009 - 09 00
Username: theoryoferin is my actual LJ and x__hypocampus is where I keep the majority of my writing.
----------Location: Central Florida, for the time being.
Age/Sex/Etc.: 23 and female.
Years Doing NaNo: This is officially year 6, but unofficially year 8
About This Year's NaNo: it's the third book in a very large non-linear series about a group of friends that have come from various places around the globe and are all somehow interconnected. it's chick lit and set just outside of Central London. Pretty much, it's just a quirky little tale about two neighbors who've been in love since their teens and how they come together... and are then subsequently separated again.
Contents of Journal: on theoryoferin, I post a lot of anecdotes from work [I work in a theme park and recently left their competition] and tales of traveling [I just returned from a two-week trip to London to visit a friend and research for my NaNo]... and a lot of times there's semi-personal whining about my slacking family. But there's also writing stuff in there, especially surrounding my recently-published short story collection. In x__hypocampus, it's all writing. Sometimes I post ideas or plans, sometimes there's actual writing, sometimes it's just rambling about how behind I am on a goal. But it's always writing related.
Looking for NaNoMates Who... Post relatively often year-long. I love getting to know people by reading their LJ posts and having more to read makes me indefinitely happy. [:
http://erinfoster.webs.com
Purchase the AugNo 2009 Anthology or my 2007 NaNo
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Oct 3, 2009 - 09 40
Username: pixie0707
----------Location: H-town (Texas)
Age/Sex/Gender/Etc:: 23, female
Years Done NaNo:: This is #3
About This Year's NaNo:: Historical fiction... uhh, yeah.
Contents of Journal:: Every day "life stuff." Sometimes just interesting quotes, song lyrics, poems, etc. I update fairly regularly, and am working on updating even more often.
Looking for NaNoMates Who...:: will encourage and push me throughout NaNoWriMo '09 and BEYOND!
Trebuchet?:: I have an imaginary one =)
49,988 / 50,000
Oct 3, 2009 - 11 03
Username: kay_brooke
Location: Indiana apparently for the next forever, despite my attempts to find a job in Chicago. Sigh.
Age/Sex/Gender/Other Relevant Facts Along Those Lines: Somewhere in my 20s, female
Years Done NaNo: 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, and now 2009. Won every year but 2004.
About This Year's NaNo: I'm kind of caught between two ideas right now and I'm hoping I'll sort them out before November. One is an epic political fantasy. The other is a sequel to last year's NaNo, which I had so much fun writing that I just don't want to leave that world. It's kind of a mishmash of various speculative fiction genres.
Contents of Journal: Whatever I feel like! I talk about writing a lot. I post TV show reactions and fannish kinds of things. I talk/whine about work and family (in locked posts). I DON'T do Twitter digests even though I'm on Twitter all the time (maybe a selling point? I know a lot of people don't like the Twitter posts on LJ). I update on average about three times a week, sometimes more or less depending on what's going on in my life.
Looking for NaNoMates Who...: Have some interests in common with me. If it's just writing/NaNoWriMo, that's cool, but I'd like to be able to talk about other things, too.
Trebuchet?: I have blueprints.
33,310 / 50,000
Oct 4, 2009 - 14 53
Username: moon_pies
Location: Michigan
Age/Sex/Gender/Other Relevant Facts Along Those Lines: Early 20's female.
Years Done NaNo: First time in 2008 and I won!
About This Year's NaNo: I'm writing about events loosely based on my trip in Chicago. I will have different characters but the poor girl in my story will be freaked out by riding on the El train at 2am with a scary druggie guy. Oh she also happens to meet Duff Goldman so it's kind of a fan fiction.
Contents of Journal: During November it's mainly NaNo. I put up pictures of my plotting and what not. Through out the rest of the year is random rants and more writing.
Looking for NaNoMates Who: want friends and not just people to make them look more popular. If I can find something fun or witty to say on your blog I'll leave a comment and I hope to get the same in return.
edit: Added more info on this years NaNo
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Oct 3, 2009 - 21 38
Oh man, I always try to make new LJ friends during nano! I'm shy of adding people, but love it when people add me. My journal is friends only for posts more than a month old but I'll almost inevitably add you back if you introduce yourself! :) Please don't be scared off by the fact I don't have a lot of posts up, I blog way more during nano and... yeah!
Username: sardonicrealist
Location: Canadian prairies! (ish...)
Age/Sex/Gender/Other Relevant Facts Along Those Lines: 23, lady
Years Done NaNo: Since 2005 (with a 50% success rate that I hope to turn into 60% this year)
About This Year's NaNo: I won't know until I begin, I use the "seat of your pants" method
Contents of Journal: Books, music, my search for employment, sometimes exciting tales about my outings and/or boys, the odd link or picture post
Looking for NaNoMates Who...: Post during -and- after nano, and are just generally friendly, cool people.
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Oct 3, 2009 - 23 29
Username: yourpalkara
Location: Minnesota, US
Age/Sex/Gender/Other Relevant Facts Along Those Lines: Just about 18, female
Years Done NaNo: This'll be number 3
About This Year's NaNo: Uhhh something involving a pirate and an alien and a ghost and a whale going on a road trip...
Contents of Journal: Well I tend to talk a lot about television shows, but I'm trying to tone that down. I'm sure there will be tons of nano talk going on during the next two month.
Looking for NaNoMates Who...: are cool.
42,195 / 50,000
Oct 4, 2009 - 07 31
Username: superinsane95
----------Location: East Coast USA
Age/Sex/Gender/Other Relevant Facts Along Those Lines: 14, Female, yadda yadda and whatnot
Years Done NaNo: This is my 2nd Year
About This Year's NaNo: Destruction of a town due to the nature of humans.
Contents of Journal: Randomness. Usually icons and banners I make about my fandoms. Lots of video clips and random ranting.
Looking for NaNoMates Who...: Actually do NaNo. All my friends so far aren't NaNoers
2008-11,589 words
2009-?
29,034 / 50,000
Oct 4, 2009 - 16 24
Username: stayawaystar
----------Location: Northern VA
Age/Sex/Gender/Other Relevant Facts Along Those Lines: 25/female/incredibly awesome
Years Done NaNo: Participant '06-'08, Winner '07 and '08
Contents of Journal: It's my Nanowrimo journal, more or less. I try to pass it off as a "writing journal" sometimes, but the truth is I don't write anything in it except Oct-January.
Looking for NaNoMates Who...: Don't mind that I'm only on this journal once a year... I otherwise blog on my website using WordPress (ie, I don't 'live' on LJ :P). So if you have a blog elsewhere I'd be happy to exchange links. :)
Trebuchet: It's actually more likely than you think.
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2006: Untitled YA novel unfinished at 16,368
2007: Afterwords Cafe ended at 53,643.
2008: Discovering Eleanor unfinished at 83,847.
2009: Untitled steampunk novel.
23,568 / 50,000
Oct 4, 2009 - 22 27
Username: grlgoddess
----------Location: Saskatchewan
Age/sex/blahblahblah: 18/19 year old chick (depending on how far into NaNo you are)
Years Done NaNo: I won last year (through nefarious means...shh!)
About This Year's NaNo: I have a few ideas... nothing solid yet though.
Contents of Journal: Right now, it's mostly Doctor Who fanfic, with the odd little half-asleep rant. I'll probably post more NaNo stuff as November rolls around.
Looking for NaNoMates Who...:are awesome. Awesomeness is good! :)
Trebuchet?: ...sure?
~DarcyLyn~
51,347 / 50,000
Oct 5, 2009 - 02 48
Username: ink_tree
----------Location: Maryland, US.
Age/Sex/Gender/Other Relevant Facts Along Those Lines: 18. She-thing. Loser.
Years Done NaNo: Second year.
About This Year's NaNo: Little boys.
Contents of Journal: HAHA okay it's half me being a ninny about nothing and half me being way too vague, peppered with a fair amount of fandom idiocy. I solemnly swear I will never take myself seriously. I will never say anything like "G-GUYS I JUST TRIED TO KILL MYSELF GOD NO ONE UNDERSTANDS," and I will be stupid 100% of the time. I do a lot of doujinshi shit so if you're bothered by the gay oh rofl please don't friend me.
Looking for NaNoMates Who...: Are willing to overlook my stupid fandoms and tendency to say unsmart things - or better yet, will comment on them. Hohoho. I don't post very often, but I comment all the time.
Trebuchet?: W-WAIT -- CONSIDER THE CONSEQUENCES!
Having been called in here very many times over the past few months to answer for this or that misdemeanor, Oliver was well acquainted with the room's nuances and eccentricities – most of them fungal.
40,273 / 50,000
Oct 5, 2009 - 19 11
Yay for LiveJournal! :D
Username: http://shoebox-project.livejournal.com
Location: In the south suburbs around Chicago. :)
Age/Sex/Gender/Other Relevant Facts Along Those Lines: Just turned 20, female.
Years Done NaNo: 2006 & 2007. I took 2008 off and I'm trying it again this year!
About This Year's NaNo: I've got two ideas going on. One of them is kind of chick lit (I know, I know...) and the other is more fantasy. One of them involves a young woman being sucked into the world of romance novel publishing and the other involves a village ravaged by a disease and a wizard out to find the cure.
Contents of Journal: Lots of stuff! I talk about my personal life quite often and I spend a LOT of time talking and posting about The Daily Show & The Colbert Report. :) I also talk a lot about politics, because I watch those shows so much. So, yeah - fangirling, chatting, bitching, stuff about writing - a whole lot of stuff. =)
Looking for NaNoMates Who...: Have common interests as me and are looking to meet fellow writers on LiveJournal!
Trebuchet?: I'm ashamed but I'm unsure as to how to answer this...lol.
----------NaNo 2006--> WINNER.
NaNo 2007--> WINNER.
NaNo 2008--> Made of fail.
NaNo 2009--> Writing!
98,553 / 50,000
Oct 5, 2009 - 22 05
Username: www.agoodinsane.livejournal.com
----------Location: US
Age/Sex/Gender/Other Relevant Facts Along Those Lines: 20/Girl/Talkative
Years Done NaNo: This will be my fifth!
About This Year's NaNo: a few girls keeping secrets from each other.
Contents of Journal: i write about writing, tv, school, work, music, life and lots of pointless things. but it's never boring. ;)
Twitter: uhlisssuh--LiveJournal: agoodinsane
Nano 2009-Games, A Secrets Novel...20,000/50,000
Nano 2008-Secrets...WON!
Nano 2007-The Elite...WON!
Nano 2006-Paper Hearts...WON!
Nano 2005-Coloring Outside The Lines...WON!
10,699 / 50,000
Oct 6, 2009 - 16 02
Username: gabunny
----------Location: New Zealand
Age/Gender: 17, female
Years Done NaNo: Just last year! I won (:
About This Year's NaNo: Unsure yet, still planning. So far I'm thinking a relatively cheerful post-apocalyptic story with zombies.
Contents of Journal: Rambling about fandoms, boys, parties, friends, school. I'm a teenage girl, so...there you go. Now you know what to expect if you friend me XD.
Looking for NaNoMates Who...: Are doing NaNo! And have some common interests and comment on entries ^_^.
Trebuchet?: ...it's a nice font, though I'm sure that's not what you were referring to ;)
2008: The Wisdom of Children (won!)
29,292 / 50,000
Oct 6, 2009 - 19 21
Username: http://saranghada.livejournal.com/
----------Location: Pennsylvania
Age/Sex/Gender/Other Relevant Facts Along Those Lines: 19. Female.
Years Done NaNo: This is my first year participating, though I'd first heard of it years ago.
About This Year's NaNo: Historical fiction/Romance set during the Revolutionary War. And . . . that's all I've got at the moment.
Contents of Journal: A great deal of it is private because I'm being mopey. I've recently started writing more friends-only entries about . . . whatever strikes my fancy.
Looking for NaNoMates Who...: Actually sign on their LJ accounts more than once every Eternity. And people who comment are always welcome; I will comment in return!
Trebuchet?: For sure.
35,000 / 50,000
Oct 6, 2009 - 22 16
Username: BeautyandBanana
----------Location: SoCal
Age/Sex/Gender/Other Relevant Facts Along Those Lines: 18, Female, is extraordinarily random
Years Done NaNo: I think this is three////
About This Year's NaNo: Oh geez I have a bunch of ideas and my main characters but an actual plot line? Please.
Contents of Journal: Writing, musings, complaints....
Looking for NaNoMates Who...: will make me laugh
Trebuchet?: Um... what?
20,380 / 50,000
Oct 8, 2009 - 19 10
Username: lord_of_ruin
* Intro post is specifically ...nonexistant?
Location: Ohio.
Age/Sex/Gender/Other Relevant Facts Along Those Lines: 28, posessing of lady bits. Despite appearance of LJ username, lol.
Years Done NaNo: This is my first!
About This Year's NaNo: Loosely based on true story of the past year of my life.
Contents of Journal: random stuff. I use it for my sims 2 stuff mainly though.
Looking for NaNoMates Who...: are okay with me being a bit odd.
Trebuchet?: perhaps.
I've gone ahead and added some of you already, feel free to add me as well!
45,078 / 50,000
Oct 10, 2009 - 06 16
Username: sophie-03
----------Location: Southwest England
Age/Sex/Gender/Other Relevant Facts Along Those Lines: 19/female
Years Done NaNo: this will be my 4th! now that's a scary thought.
About This Year's NaNo: not entirely sure yet.. sort of taking one of my characters from screnzy and sort of doing her story.. sort of not.. thinking about it.
Contents of Journal: personal stuff/doctor who, torchwood fan ramblings/etc/mcfly fanfic/fandom stuff/writing... and harry potter.. how could I forget... and hopefully some nano stuff this year. I've started using it a lot more recently.. and check it all at least once a day. :)
Looking for NaNoMates Who: umm.. anyone who uses lj a lot/all year, just awesome people who will talk about nano/writing;/my fandoms.. and basically just what everyone else has said ^ ^ and people who can put up with me, haha.
Trebuchet?: huhhh? *is lost*
'when all your dreams are shattered, everything is beautiful...'
34,555 / 50,000
Oct 9, 2009 - 21 50
Username: http://hayleysaurusrex.livejournal.com/
Location: Portland OR
Age/Sex/Gender/Other Relevant Facts Along Those Lines: 24, Female
Years Done NaNo: First time
About This Year's NaNo: NO IDEA yet. I might try to write something intentionally terrible.
Contents of Journal: I try to keep it interesting.
Looking for NaNoMates Who...: live in Portland is a plus. Would like to talk on AIM, maybe, about Nano/writing, or whatever. Look at my journal, add me if you like, go from there.
35,092 / 50,000
Oct 10, 2009 - 07 35
Username: dreamingofblue
----------Location: Baltimore, Maryland
Age/Sex/Gender/Other Relevant Facts Along Those Lines: 31, female
Years Done NaNo: this will be my fifth year doing NaNo and my third year Livejournaling about it, lol
About This Year's NaNo: as of yet I have no clue. but no plot, no problem, right? right?
Contents of Journal: mostly word count updates, ideas for the novel jotted down, encouragement to myself, some snippets of the novel. updated sporadically throughout the month.
Looking for NaNoMates Who...: are friendly and might like to bounce ideas around.
Trebucet?: heck yes!
2005: The Healer's Apprentice--Won
2006: The Lonely Wives of Victoria--Failed
2007: Maidens of the Forest--Failed
2008: Never Sometimes--Won
2009: Echoes--?
45,000 / 50,000
Oct 10, 2009 - 08 24
Username: http://secretly4broken.livejournal.com/
----------Location: Dublin, Ireland
Age/Sex/Gender/Other Relevant Facts Along Those Lines: 15, Female
Years Done NaNo: This is my 3rd year
About This Year's NaNo: Modern and twisted retelling of Cinderella?
Contents of Journal: Pretty random. Some music and some graphics.
Looking for NaNoMates Who...: Are cool! =D
13,801 / 50,000
Oct 10, 2009 - 09 14
Username: mysticpenguin If you're on Dreamwidth, that's awesome too; I'm pretty much the same thing under the same name over there.
Location: Southwest Ohio.
Age/Sex/Gender/Other Relevant Facts Along Those Lines: Chick, just turned thirty.
Years Done NaNo: Oh geez. I've been signing up for NaNo since 2002, but I think this is the third one I've actually done.
About This Year's NaNo: Modern fantasy, in which a psychic from the little hippie village of Yellow Springs gets caught up in a whodunit involving the embodiments of character tropes/archetypes.
Contents of Journal: Pretty much my day-to-day stuff. I write a lot about my writing at LJ, but actual prose I post on Dreamwidth and link, since I don't really trust Sup with writing I care about.
Looking for NaNoMates Who...: Like to talk about writing, and don't take NaNo too seriously. And aren't bothered by late comments, because I am terrible about keeping up with commenting to my friends list.
Trebuchet?: ...beg pardon?