Tasmanians!! Introduce yourselves here.

Yay Taswegians.

Back again for another year of writing absolute insanity. This year, however, I have an actual plan written up. I found last year that I finished my story well before the 50k finish line so this year I am trying a different approach and making damn well sure that I have enough content lined up to keep going.

Should be blast anyway.

Nano 06: Who Wants to be a Camel.
Script Frenzy: The Minions.
Nano 07: White Star Supernova.

Insane chase sequences so far = 2.

Yay there are other Taswiegians here. :)

Heyo, just another Tassie-type person popping up.

I'm a terrible forum participant, but I wanted to poke my head up and be counted. Rawr for Tassie!

I work full time for DPIW [Department of Primary Industries and Water] and am slowly poking my way out of my mid-twenties. I gave Nano a try last year and failed horribly at reaching the 50,000 word mark, making it only to around 13,000. -sads- This year my starting goal is to beat last years word count, my hopeful goal is to make it halfway with 25,000 and of course my uber-goal of sparkle and fireworks is to beat Nano completely. Muwahaha.

I'm going to attempt to write a fantasy/comedy with heroes that run away and princesses who are cabbages. Research mode is going full steam ahead and plot outlines are squiggling their way onto paper. This time around I'm going into battle well prepared!

Wahoo! I'm not the only Tasmanian here! Ello all Tasmanians. This is my first year writting for NaNo. And I"m going to be trying to graduate and write a novel in the same month, it should be interesting.

Hey y'all,
First time participant and long time procrastinator. Awesome to see some Tasmanians here, thank god. I'm a huge fantasy nut and I've wanted to write a fantasy novel for a very long time now, but well, no success thus far. Hopefully I'm up to the challenge. Good thing my exams finish before this starts, so I should be a little prepared...I think. This should be a blast anyway, regardless of how I do.

Wooooooooooo!

Fellow Tassie gal here, plugging away quietly in Launceston and trying not to go insane from boredom, interspersed with moments of massive political stupidity.

I'm currently on the disability due to a long-term, recurring medical issue that has become exceedingly bad over the last 14 months and stopped me from working. I write a lot, but never seem to finish anything - so that's why I'm here. Something WILL be finished. I'm not on the forums that much - I just discovered a Michael Moorcock forum where the man himself posts! *swoon*

I am distinguished by being the ONLY person I know to have their first serious, full-on crush on a book character, and no it wasn't Sirius Black either. (Bowgentle from the Hawkmoon/Count Brass books if you must know. He's special.)

And now that I'm done embarassing myself, I need sleep.

Title: Dynasty of Demons
Genre: Fantasy
Progress: They're Coming To Take Me Away, Ha Ha, He He...
"Even a demon will feel a blade through the skull."

Yaaay! Look at all you lubbly Tasmanians! Best of luck and helpful plot fairies for November to all ye!

I have nothing witty or insightful to put here yet.

*waves*

I'm in Launceston, and a student, again, after 10 years. (Of course, I have an exam in the middle of November. Still it's just one.)

I can't remember how many times I've done this. I came over to the site just now to find the place where it tells me that, but haven't yet.

This is my second year of attempting. I made it to an awe-inspiring 896 words last year. Hoping I can do better this time, but my baby might have something to say about that.
Writing a older children's story set in the South West. I am trying to start some plot summaries, but of course cruising the forums looks so much more interesting.
Good luck everyone!

I can say I'm a nineteen year old Uni student type(yes, I am doing this during exam time. This probably says something about my sanity *g*). My driving ambition is to become either a librarian, the Sam Seaborn of Australian politics, a policy analyst or a job in which I get to read, watch and write stories for fun while David Tennant and Anthony Stewart Head feed me grapes and sing to me (the last one being a little less likely).

This is the first time I've done NaNo and I decided to do it simply to kick start a sequel to the very first novel I ever wrote. It's a semi fantasy, semi historical novel and I'm not entirely sure whether it's going to work or not but I wanted to try. As for the forums - you'll find me in the fantasy forum, the off topic forums and the forum for people who are being killed by Nano *g*

"I love writing but hate starting. The page is awfully white." (Aaron Sorkin)

Another Taswegian here! I've managed to recruit my two flatmates to the cause as well, and we're all NaNo virgins so this should be a stressed out household for the next month or so. :P Good luck to everyone!

.:Leilwyn:.
NaNo Virgin!
Tentative Title: The Undetected Stablehand

Mmmmm. David Tennant and Anthony Stewart Head. You have excellent taste. (How freakin' hot is David as the Doctor? Phwoar!)

Title: Dynasty of Demons
Genre: Fantasy
Progress: They're Coming To Take Me Away, Ha Ha, He He...
"Even a demon will feel a blade through the skull."

FINALLY!

After 3 years of NaNo, we finally have our own thread!

I'm a 22 year old Uni Student [yays, go me] with 5 exams to go. I usually write historical fiction but decided to write...a ghost story!

We should all meet up sometime after the cutoff time.

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Paranormality - 2007; Daughter of Isis - 2006; The Tudor Duplicity -

We should all meet up sometime after the cutoff time.

I agree, that would be fun. ^_^

Can I be an unofficial Tasmanian this year?

I'm the ML for Brighton region (UK), but Im flying to Tassie on the 5th December, to stay for two years, hopefully permanently.

Maybe as I've been ML for a UK region I might be able to help with stuff for 2008; possibly even get a Tassie forum set up. There's no way I'm putting up with all this 'elsewhere' business. I've never lived in Elsewhere in my life!

I'm a doctor, and I'm going to be working at the re-re-renamed Mersey Community Hospital in Latrobe. I write historical, contemorary and fantasy fiction, and I hope to have a fantasy novel ready to sub to Orbit next year. I've done a Master's in creative writing, am an Arvon Foundation 'graduate' and run a magazine called The Small Press Review: www.thesmallpressreview.co.uk

This is my third nano, and I'm starting it in style...by leaving at 6am to spend 5 days in Rome. That word count is starting to look very worrying...

The art of writing is the art of applying the seat of your pants to the seat of the chair - Anon

Hiya,

Welcome to Tassie! Of course you can be a Tasmanian - in my view anyone willing to live here is a Tasmanian :P Don't get me wrong though I love it here and have no intention of ever leaving. Many youths do though - it's seen as kind of 'uncool' but meh they dunno what they're missin! ... which isnt' much really but the air is nice, the traffic is minimal and the heat is bareable!

Let us know if you need any info about Tassie and it's quirks - I think there are a few peeps in this thread who live in the north and around the Latrobe area but no doubt you've already heard lots of stuff. I've lived here all my life too.

Thanks for the offer of an official place for Tassies too - that'd rock. Also, knowing Australia, I'm willing to bet there's an actual town somewhere called Elsewhere XD

Have fun in Rome and we'll see you when you return ^__^

I have nothing witty or insightful to put here yet.

Hiya,

Welcome to Tassie! Of course you can be a Tasmanian - in my view anyone willing to live here is a Tasmanian :P Don't get me wrong though I love it here and have no intention of ever leaving. Many youths do though - it's seen as kind of 'uncool' but meh they dunno what they're missin! ... which isnt' much really but the air is nice, the traffic is minimal and the heat is bareable!

Let us know if you need any info about Tassie and it's quirks - I think there are a few peeps in this thread who live in the north and around the Latrobe area but no doubt you've already heard lots of stuff. I've lived here all my life too.

Thanks for the offer of an official place for Tassies too - that'd rock. Also, knowing Australia, I'm willing to bet there's an actual town somewhere called Elsewhere XD

Have fun in Rome and we'll see you when you return ^__^

I have nothing witty or insightful to put here yet.

Hello friendlies,
I'm a Hobart boy.
Queenslander originally, but woke up to myself.
Designer and writer.
Used to write and design for the Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens, you know Tulip Festival etc
Well I'm at the Department of Health and Human Services now and am desperate for some creative input.

So I'm having a crack at NaNoWriMo.

Fantasy/YA

Peace to you all and good luck.

PS: How does it work? Where do we type our stuff in.
I really am clueless.

:)

Hey!
Welcome to Elsewhere.
I do the recruitment ads for the DHHS.
Glad to see you're on your way.

Wow! There are other Hobartians doing nano. How exciting! This is the third time I've started it ... Never finished it but this year I'm determined! Seeing as it's already November 1 here, I've started writing. Apparently we need 1667 words per day - only 667 to go for me today! I've got this great story trapped in my head, but I've got all the middle bits mapped out and no beginning. I'm hoping if I keep plodding away until I get to the middle hopefully a great beginning will come back and hit me in the head! Good luck everyone!

Take care,
Simone

I live and work in Hobart and I've taken part in this insanity twice before.

In 2005 I thought I'd finished my science fiction novel "Scorched by Darkness" only to discover I was a couple of pages short (who knew that different word-processors gave different counts?) but I had a couple of days to spare and succeeded in beating the deadline.

However in 2006 I set off in the wrong direction and bogged down after a few days. I had thought I was starting a horror novel but eventually realised it was a psychological thriller set in the television industry. The time I wasted trying to hammer square pegs into round holes was never made up and sadly I was two hours late in hitting the 50,000 word mark.

This year i hope to make it two out of three. My fantasy novel "Barney Thompson's Unicorn is Missing" (no, it's not a real unicorn) will follow the tradition of pre-war pulp magazines from 'Doc Savage' to 'Unknown'.

At least that's the plan at the moment.....

Scarily hot. My friends and I determined that he is possibly the best exam distraction drool object ever *g* And so do you - have excellent taste that is (perhaps I need to hunt up pictures as a motivational tool)

"I love writing but hate starting. The page is awfully white." (Aaron Sorkin)

Wow, I forgot to check out the Tasmanian representation - that's how flustered I've been the past few weeks!

I'm a third-soon-to-be-fourth year arts/computing uni student (Moggity... you wouldn't happen to work at the Hobart campus, would you?) and would-be novelist in my spare time, and sometimes my study time, too. I mostly write science fiction and fantasy that turns into science fiction. I'm shamelessly NaNoing through my exams for the third year in a row, hoping to make it three times lucky and hoping even harder to actually complete an entire draft this time! So far it's not looking promising, but it's November, so anything can happen!

2005: She Dreams In Droplets - Won! (easily)
2006: The Chaos Kid - Won! (but only just)
2007: A Little Tuning - Pending (but good things come in threes... right?)

Hey Tassies!

You're doing really well - most of you have much better wordcounts than me (though spending most of my spare time packing is my excuse).

We're having fun in Brighton region, UK, and it would be great to have some parties--I mean meetings--for nanites in Tas next year. I've asked the big boss about giving Tas its own forum next time but you need to all get posting like crazy to show her it would be worthwhile!

See what we're up to in the northern hemisphere:

http://www.nanowrimo.org/eng/node/221

I will raise a pint to you all on the 15th!

The art of writing is the art of applying the seat of your pants to the seat of the chair - Anon

I was doing so well this year -- I was even a couple of hundred words ahead most days.

Then Wednesday i woke up with a head cold that knocked me for six.

Remember the old comic book villain Eclipso? He had a crescent across his face that divided his head into two halves.

That's just the way I felt.

Hi I also am a Taswegian . however, even though i know i could have done it had i not had o continue working 7days ten hours and housework, i am going to pay someone to tdo my work at work next year so i can actuallywrite. after all, one only needs four hours oor so a day? How many hours do you allow yourself, to indulge in th eonly occupation in the world that is really worthwhile. Yes I am talking about writing.

asilalenore7

Well, did you recover? If not, i am looking to form a small tasmanian post Nano group to cheer ourselves with until next Nano time. would you or anyone else in Nano like that idea? Please excuse horrid lack of writing skills, I am soooo tired, and should sleepzzzzzzz

asilalenore7

15th? Why the 15th? am i missing something/? I love the idea of us Tassie nanos having a meeting sometime, Why should we not? You are a WINNER cONGRATULATIONS.
Maybe next year there might be twenty winners in Nao from Tasmania?

asilalenore7

Pleased to meet you. meet you . Uh oh, my CD got stuck. I am a neighbour of yours and I must say I hope we do not meet professionally. (After all, I like being healthy)

However, it will be great to have our own Forum for Tasmanians. I hope you are not distracted from your goal. Nor from your NanoGoal . asilalenore7

asilalenore7

I have a career in multimedia so I can't generally allow myself time off just to write being as my career is the thing paying my bills. I don't really ever intend to publish - perhaps when I retire and am a better writer - but I still manage to put in a few hours of writing.

Mainly weekends - I am single and have no children so I have weekends to myself, also I live in a very large house with about 7 other adults who help with cooking and housework so I am not tied down most nights either. Very luckily, I'd say XD

Most weekends I could get about 5-6 hours at least, most weeknights about 1-3 hours depending on what is on tv, whether it's my day to cook or how tired I am from work. It helps that I touch type very very quickly, so I can generally get through a few thousand words in a couple of hours.

Sadly I'm not sure if I can count myself as a winner as the story itself isn't finished. My poor team are only just beginning really. They have no idea what's ahead of them. And when I go back to edit I have to include more of what is happening elsewhere. My word count is likely to triple at least before I'm done, then half more again in editing. Lawks - hardly seems worth it for fanfiction but then again it's all good practice and a great lot of fun!

Congrats to Tassie winners too!

I have nothing witty or insightful to put here yet.