We have an awful lot of teenaged WriMos in the region, and quite frankly, I'm impressed since writing 50,000 words in 30 days isn't something I would have wanted to tackle while in school or college!
I know it's unlikely you guys will be able to come to meetings (although you are very welcome, and also very welcome to bring a non-novelling parent or friend along with you), but we do have an online chat room at http://writers.sharp-words.co.uk/chat-room. It's open all the time, though pretty quiet on weekdays, and you're very welcome to come and hang out and chat NaNo with your friends - and make new friends too.
But tell me - how are you managing to fit NaNo into your lives? Have you pestered your friends into taking part (or been pestered)? If you've done NaNo before - and succeeded - how did you do it?
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10,739 / 50,000
Oct 31, 2009 - 17 04
I know Im 20 now but Im a University student and I was 19 and starting Uni when I first attempted Nano last year.
Im not particularly sure how I fitted it in last year. I think its cause it was part of first semetser and I didnt go out as much as I was still getting to know my bearings and things. I did forgo a good few nights out to stay in, including my housemates bday. But shes forcing me out this year so Im probably gonna lose a day or two now.
I have coursework due for two of my modules this thursday but as I mentioned in chat, my nano is actually part of one of them. I have pestered a few friends into taking part but I dont think they are as into it as I seem to be. My housemates and other friends are aware of the fact that I participate and they always want to read it but I always tell them they can, when im done! But they encourage me to write whenever we are just idling about with nothing to do and if I get time between classes once my courseworks done, Ill probably get a fair amount done then.
I also only have class 3 days a week, so i guess that gives me time to fit it in. As well as being at home at weekends with no job or anything, makes it easier for me!
10,801 / 50,000
Nov 1, 2009 - 02 22
I'm actually not in school at the moment, due to complications with switching from the English education system to the Irish one. They do not mesh well. D: I don't really know anyone here at the moment, so I'm noveling all by myself. Still, I have plenty of online writing buddies, so I should be fine. :3
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Nov 4, 2009 - 12 33
I write a couple of sentances in my file block every time the teacher walks out of the room lmao.
it works quite well actually!
although, its not easy to write a lot, even about 800 words a day, when you have H.E. coursework, geography coursework, art coursework, french orals, german orals, chemistry coursework and homeworks on top of that!!
35,145 / 50,000
Nov 4, 2009 - 13 01
Awk hello :) I've been looking around the NI forums and was like, I want to go to the Derry write ins and Belfast write ins and do this and do that :L But I can't sadly.
This is my second year doing NaNoWriMo. I sorta succeeded in it last year, but a lot of the plot didn't make any sense at all. So, I hope to write a legible story this year.
Usually, I write when I come in from school (after I've heated my hands on the radiator for five minutes; it's freezing atm and my laptop touch pad is heat sensitive, so it's a bit awkward having cold hands and trying to move the pointer as well). I'm not really falling behind on homework than I usually am, so it's not too bad. Usually I'm too tired to write, hence why I'm a bit behind at the minute. I hope that I catch up over the weekend.
I don't plan on pestering my folks into writing too. They aren't interested. :L
Anyway, hope you enjoyed my little rant :D
-Jessica x
6,762 / 50,000
Nov 4, 2009 - 13 21
Hey, I'm 18 y o and in my 1st year of uni.
Although I fully anticipate my studies from stopping me wreaching the 50,000 mark i'm still givin it a try.
I should be able to make it to some of the monday belfast write-ins so if there's any fellow teens I mite see you there.
I currently have no writin buddies (no1 around here is interested), I think the lack of pressure has caused me to drop behind. I have been tryin to get some guys to join back home at england but no joy so far. Might have to jog this one out solo, but feelin a bit like a hermit atmo (hopefully write ins will help). Already passed on a nite out to get a few hundred words squeezed out. Anyway thats my moanin done.
-Ethan