I see some names I recognize, but many are unfamiliar. Let's fix that, shall we? :)
Name: Melissa
Age: 18 (I'll be 19 on kickoff day.)
Location: Cumberland County
Occupation: Student (Journalism major)
This NaNo will be my: 4th
Years won: 2
Novel Title: The source
Novel Genre: Fantasy/Drama
Anything else we should know?: I'm carrying way too many credits this semester, and am Editor-in-Chief of my college's paper, so doing NaNo on top of all that scares me. Then again, I say that every year and turn out fine, so.
Okay, SJ WriMos: SOUND OFF!
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||Melissa||
2005: Silhouettes (35K)
2006: Halfway to Anywhere (WINNER!)
2007: Plot Twist (WINNER!)
2008: The Source (Plotting...)
50,116 / 50,000
Oct 9, 2008 - 22 25
Name: Caitlin
Age: 19, for two more weeks at least.
Location: Gloucester County
Occupation: Student (Writing Arts major)
This NaNo will be my: 7th
Years won: 5
Novel Title: Don't have one yet.
Novel Genre: YA Fantasy.
Anything else we should know?: I bounce between here and Central Jersey on the weekends, but I'm hoping to drag my roommate to some events this year.
74,733 / 50,000
Oct 10, 2008 - 09 03
Name: LA Scene
Age: 40
Location: North Carolina (former Mercer County Resident)
Occupation: Sales Lead
Entered: 4 (including this year)
Years won: 3
Novel Title: Philip and Elliot
Novel Genre: Fiction
I just moved to North Carolina, but liked this group when I lived in New Jersey. This might be my final Nano as I'd like to explore writing without the structure of Nanowrimo. Of course I reserve the right to change my mind!!!
Typically, I don't like write-ins - as I am too social and they distract me from writing. However, I love communicating on the message boards.
50,594 / 50,000
Oct 11, 2008 - 04 33
Name: Jenn
Age: 18
Location: Camden County
Occupation: Student (Nursing), part time party store employee
This will be my first NaNo
Title: Harvest
Genre: Literary Fiction
I'm helping the MLs out this year, and hosting a bunch of write-ins in Camden County. I am really, really excited to get started, but I assume that everyone else is too. I actually usually suck in social situations, but if I'm the leader of a group, I'm a social butterfly. Don't know where the switch comes in, but thank god it's there, or else this November would be pretty lonely.
50,086 / 50,000
Oct 11, 2008 - 10 33
Caia, are you at RU? I want to transfer for 2009. :) (I actually might be on campus tomorrow for the open house.)
50,116 / 50,000
Oct 11, 2008 - 10 59
Yep. I'm a junior.
0 / 50,000
Oct 12, 2008 - 14 57
Name: Rebekah
Age: 28
Location: Atlantic County
Occupation: Newspaper editorial assistant
This NaNo will be my: 6th
Years won: 2003, 2005, 2007
Novel Title: A Line of Gold and Glass (not firm yet)
Novel Genre: Adventure/Sci-Fi
Anything else we should know?: Props to Melissa -- I'm a former college-paper editor and survived Nano while earning a communication degree. So I've been there, and you can do it!! (As for me, this year I'm a bit worried about finishing, as I only seem to reach 50,000 on odd-numbered years. Hmm.)
0 / 50,000
Oct 12, 2008 - 15 37
Great idea for a topic! This is fun.
Name: Kristen
Age: 29
Location: Ocean County
Occupation: Librarian
This NaNo will be my: 4th
Years won: 2005, 2006, 2007
Novel Title: no idea yet - titles usually come to me about halfway through
Novel Genre: realistic fiction, possibly a short story collection
I'm traveling 2 weekends out of the 4 and will have family visiting for a week. Every year it seems like an insurmountable challenge, and yet every year I find myself squeaking by 50,000. Will this be the year I don't make it?
0 / 50,000
Oct 13, 2008 - 05 30
Name: Georgann
Age: 37
Location: Gloucester County
Occupation: Web Design/Technology Coordination
This NaNo will be my: 1st
Novel Title: Geoism (working title)
Novel Genre: Religion
Anything else we should know?: I'm looking forward to getting started, although I really have no idea what I'm doing!
0 / 50,000
Oct 13, 2008 - 07 28
Hi!
Name: Vanessa
Age:52 and proud of it!
this is my fourth NaNoWrimo
Won:Once
Novel Name: The three ugly sisters
genre: not sure, it's a mix of fantasy and literary fiction
Lcation: Vineeland, Cumberland county
Anything else: you can se me on myspace at www.myspace,com/purpleveil.
I have a book of poetry and short stories coming out by January, and I have a diet blog going on my site.
I love the nano. I don't have decent transportation, so I don't know if I can make any of the write-ins, but I sure am gonna try. I love making writing friends. It's nice to know people that you actually have soomething in common with.
51,232 / 50,000
Oct 13, 2008 - 16 39
Name: Elizabeth, or Liz
Age: 23
Location: Burlington County
Occupation: Substitute Teacher
This NaNo will be my: 3rd? 4th?
Years won: 1
Novel Title: Not sure yet
Novel Genre: Fantasy of some sort or another
Anything else we should know?: I'm kinda hoping to get to some of the write-ins this year, but it's a bit hard with my crazy schedule and the fact that there don't seem to be so many NaNoers in my particular corner of South Jersey
4,200 / 50,000
Oct 13, 2008 - 18 32
Name: Karen
Age: 34
Location: Camden County
Occupation: I work in an office full of engineers but I am not one.
This NaNo will be my: 2nd
Years won: not yet
Novel Title: Fire and Ice 2 (working title)
Novel Genre: Hockey/Romance
Anything else we should know?: I have three kids all in school and just published my first novel (Fire and Ice). Marketing it is harder than writing it!
50,515 / 50,000
Oct 14, 2008 - 09 08
Name: Ann
Age: 19
Location: Atlantic County
Occupation: Full time student
This NaNo will be my: First! I'm excited
Years won: None
Novel Title: A Super Exciting One I Haven't Thought of Yet
Novel Genre: Young Adult most likely
Anything else we should know?: I'm soon to be an aunt for the first time. My baby niece is due in the first days of November (even though we're thinking and hoping that she will come out in late October). That sould be distracting but I will try and pump out those 1667 words regardless of my oodling the new baby. Also, I've got a lot of credits this semester and in a few clubs so I might just be crazy to want to add this to my plate but I think it will be fun!! Good luck everyone.
14,415 / 50,000
Oct 14, 2008 - 16 21
Name: Elise
Age: 43
Location: Woodbury
Occupation: medical editor/proofreader
This NaNo will be my 6th
Years won: 3
No novel title yet -- working on that
Good luck everyone!
0 / 50,000
Oct 15, 2008 - 18 11
Name: Jed
Age: I'll be 18 halfway through this.
Location: Ocean County
Occupation: Student/Movie Theater concessions guy
This NaNo will be my: First
I'm excited regardless of the fact that I have no ideas. Hopefully I'll be able to find make time to write something.
6,225 / 50,000
Oct 16, 2008 - 07 53
Name: David Benson
Age: 53 (so far, the oldest)
Location: Atlantic County
Occupation: Communications Manager for Oyster Creek Generating Station in Forked River
This NaNo will be my: 2nd year
Years won: 1
Novel Title: Wild Childs: Stories of Tater, Jack and Onion
Novel Genre: a bit of this and that
I haven't decided for sure on this year's novel. I like Tater, Jack and Onion. They're good kids, and they've done some cool things -- and some things not so cool.
But typically, I write horror. I have some ideas for a story based on Medusa, and another concerning vampires. But the lure of TJ&O may be too much to ignore.
This is my first year at the nuclear plant, and we have a fall refueling outage coming up. It could be that I end up with some long days at the plant during the Nano month. That's going to make it tough to find writing time. But I'm determined to get a second "win" under my belt.
2,500 / 50,000
Oct 16, 2008 - 09 57
Name: Dan
Age: 21
Location: Good Old Salem County
Occupation: Student, Director of Woodstown-Pilesgrove Youth Center
This NaNo will be my: 5th
Years won: 0 (I get closer every year, maybe this will be my time.)
Novel Title: Don't have that yet, I'm working on it.
Novel Genre: May be fantasy/horror. May be arcane cyberpunk. May be all of the above.
9,920 / 50,000
Oct 17, 2008 - 15 06
Name: Laura Cushing
Age: 38
Location: Atlantic County (near Williamstown / Hammonton)
Occupation: music journalist / freelance writer / band lackey
This NaNo will be my: 3rd
Years won: 1
Novel Title: Summer's Last Stand
Novel Genre: Literary fiction
Anything else we should know?:
I'm going to post my article chapter by chapter as I write it at http://summerslast.livejournal.com" - it's a community and I'll be posting friends-only view, so if you have LJ join up so that you can read it if you like.
22,793 / 50,000
Oct 17, 2008 - 20 14
yay! sorry i've been AWOL.
Name: Amy
Age: 29 (actually, i'm older than that now, but that's what it says on my profile and it makes me feel better, so i'm going to stay 29 until the end of November :)
Location: ugh. you had to ask. currently i'm not sure if i'm going to be at the beach or in Camden County. Probably CC but it looks like i'll be moving the 1st if that's the case. ugh ugh ugh.
Occupation: haha, unemployed as of October 31!
This NaNo will be my: 4th(!)
Years won: not yet...this is my year
Novel Title: none yet
Novel Genre: Fiction. I'm torn between sort of cheating and tackling a previous nano again, and taking all the silly daydreams and ideas i have and putting every one of them into this novel. names will be changed to protect the not-so-innocent :)
Anything else we should know?: It's been a hectic October. November is going to be rough too, even without NaNo! Anyone need an administrative assistant?.
5,026 / 50,000
Oct 17, 2008 - 20 31
Name: Casey
Age: 29
Location: Burlington County
Occupation: Health Benefits
This NaNo will be my: 1ST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I was scrolling through DailyLit last night, when I read the first few chapters of Chris Baty's book. This evening I realized that I'm on Chapter 32, but can't start it until the official first week kicks off. I'm always up for a challenge, so I couldn't resist!
2008 Novel Title: NakedEyez
Genre: maybe a coming of age...we'll see what it becomes
0 / 50,000
Oct 18, 2008 - 02 28
Name: Sue or just callm me "Gypsy"
Age: 58
Location: Egg Harbor Township
Occupation: hmmm interesting question -- "Grandma" is closest.
This NaNo will be my 4th
Historical Fiction is my genre.
Not sure what I will write about this year, I am up thinking of a new angle to write my Vineland story. It will most likely be a new approach to the Vineland women. I am determined to get a book finished and to the publisher this year!!
So glad to see familiar names. Should be another great year!
0 / 50,000
Oct 19, 2008 - 08 11
Name: Elizabeth or Lizzy
Age: 23
Location: Atlantic County
Occupation: Student (Visual Arts Major)
This NaNo will be my: second
Years won: Hah- none, but this? This will be my year.
Novel Title: 'Defying Gravity' or 'A Hundred Years Denied' or… well lets just go with ‘working title’
Novel Genre: of the paranormal-fantasy variety, probably.
Anything else we should know?: I’ve never really talked or posted with NaNo-goers last year and have decided that this was probably the reason I petered out around the ten-thousand word mark. I hope to make some new writing buddy/friends at the write-ins, or at the very least here in the forums.
Current time-consuming addictions: LiveJournal (the writing communities, of course), deviantART (such pretty pictures), and Guild Wars (which will soon be put aside for Fable 2). All of which will inevitably work against actually writing time and degrade any plot I may currently have.
0 / 50,000
Oct 21, 2008 - 05 46
Name: Ben
Age: 32
Location: Western Cumberland County
Occupation: Education - Technology Integration, Database Admin, Webmaster
This NaNo will be my: 2nd
Years won: 0
Novel Title: Not there yet (That's not my title, but I guess it could be a title....)
Novel Genre: Possibly a middle grades novel - we'll see where things go.
Anything else we should know?: Literary fiction -- whatever that means -- has been where most of my writing tends to land. This time I want to try something different. We'll see how the middle grades novel goes. My (almost) 8-year-old son will be the judge.
Amyhaha - selling my house during NaNoWriMo is what made me lose last year. My advice to you is be better than I was at deciding you WILL set aside a couple of hours a day, no matter what. Buying/selling/moving gobbles way more time than I expected. Good luck and stay at it!
0 / 50,000
Oct 21, 2008 - 10 43
Name: Joe
Age: 23
Location: Gloucester County
Occupation: Student (Creative Writing major)
This NaNo will be my: 1st, wahoo!
Novel Title: USB
Novel Genre: Sci-Fi/Slipstream
Anything else we should know? I'm tired of being critical of my own work. Looking forward to writing the crappiest novel this month!
14,825 / 50,000
Oct 21, 2008 - 14 48
Name: Claire
Age: 28
This will be my first NaNo (and I'm gonna kick it's ass)
Novel title: I have no idea!
Novel Genre: Drama-type thingy
I'm stupid excited about getting started. I hope I get to meet all of you!
5,709 / 50,000
Oct 21, 2008 - 15 26
name: Kathryn
age: 14
years doing nano: this is my first
=]
0 / 50,000
Oct 21, 2008 - 20 00
Name: Angie
Age: 34
Location: Collingswood
Occupation: stay at home mom
This NaNo will be my: 3rd
Years won: 0
Novel Title: Not sure yet. Gotta get it together!
Novel Genre: Uh, I'll let you know when it develops.
Taking ideas? Third time is a charm.
50,044 / 50,000
Oct 22, 2008 - 16 47
Name: Carol
Age: Older than Godzilla
Location: Camden County
Occupation: Clinical psychologist
This is my 2nd NaNo
Novel title...I'll figure that out after I find a topic!
19,634 / 50,000
Oct 22, 2008 - 18 53
Name: Sara
Age: 29
Location: Burlington County
Occupation: English teacher
This NaNo will be my: First!
I haven't chosen which of my ideas I want to work with. Probably this will be a contemporary piece, but I also write fantasy.
I really would like to meet up with some Burlington County Wrimos for a kick off party. Some of my high school students want to have one. Perhaps a Barnes and Noble in Marlton or Moorestown, or a Starbucks or Panera's?
Let me know if that interests you.
3,390 / 50,000
Oct 22, 2008 - 21 54
Name: Jason
Age: 31
Location: Gloucester County
Occupation: Furry Hunter
This will be my: 4th Nano
Years won: 0 (Gotten closer each time)
Novel Title: The Storm's Approach
Novel Genre: Fantasy
Anything else we should know?: Skipped Nano last year because I was too busy. Chances are I'll be too busy to do it again, but I figured I'd give it a shot.
50,410 / 50,000
Oct 23, 2008 - 16 09
Thanks for getting me into this - I think!!