Who's ready?

I am ready. I am stoked. I've got a solid idea for a story (a start, anyway) and have been itching to write for a couple of weeks, now. Genre, title, main character. I can't wait to see where it all goes.

I am glad to be participating with the WriMos. Looking forward to having write-ins, word wars and maybe a night-write or two. Yeah, I'm ready for the NaNo.to start.

-James Brown

"Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often."
Mark Twain

I thought I was ready - I had this great plan (and title even), but now, now I'm starting to think it's too much for Nano. I love it too much. So I'm thinking of making it a non nano project, which means I have NO plan! AHHHHH!!

I've got a big meeting I've got to prepare for tonight, but tomorrow night and Saturday during the day...I've got to get a plan together. GOTTA!

Of course despite the lack of definite plans/ideas - I'm totally ready. :)

***Courtney

Red Stick WriMos' Municipal Liaison
redstickwrimo@gmail.com

James,
That's awesome. Hit the ground running!

Courtney,
Do it. Plan it out. Plan it out more if you have to. And Sunday, write. All you have to do for NaNo is get 50,000 words... there's always time to actually finish your story and revise it when November ends. Last year I had a blast writing a book of absolutely no consequence... this year I'm planning to do one with characters I plan to like an awful lot. Why should NaNo be just a time-waster?

I'm going to be doing a lot of winging it. I have my two main characters (living in two different time periods), but only one has a name. I know what the first scene will be. I know a few more events that will happen. I haven't a clue as to the genre or title! I won't be at the midnight kick-off; but I'll go to bed early Saturday night, get up at midnight and write a bit; then back to bed for a few hours before I get up again for church (my cats will be so confused).

It's going to be a blast!

Dude, I am so pumped. I haven't been this excited for NaNo since, well, my first time!

2005 - Under the Roses
2006 - The Freshman Fifteen
2007 - Pinwheel

2009 - Little: An Interstellar Operetta

Have concept, title, cover art, characters, pages and pages of handwritten notes (and typed notes, in case the handwritten ones come to harm). Heck, I even have a nifty trailer. thanks to Chappy.

I think I have an ending--although I have waffled on that quite a bit in the planning stages, so who knows.

I made the mistake of talking to my husband about the plot, though, and he thinks it needs more backstory. So now, I have to fit in a prologue explaining how my dystopia/draconian government got that way. And I have to come up with a name for the previous civilization, before the futuristic Gestapo came in. (Istanbul was Constantinople. Now it's Istanbul, not Constantinople. Been a long time gone....) Anyway.

More work to do in the next three days. Just what I needed. LOL.

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Her Brother's Keeper
Number of deaths: 4
Number of chapters completed: 23/23

Arg! Now that song's in my head!! (Why'd they change it? I can't say, maybe they liked it better that way...)

I don't know what snowflaking means or situational noveling. I just know my opening line, the general plot and some of the big notes I'm going to hit. I'm rubbish at titles, I really really am. I think I got my MC to tell me her name, but I'm not sure. She's kinda...not wanting to get involved. And I can't blame her, since I'm going to make her deal with a freak snowstorm in New Orleans, zombie chickens, ghost possums, a giant Rampaging Strawberry Shortcake and God in the form of a giant white rabbit. All while planning her wedding.

I could call it Sera Myers and the Weirdness Magnet of Doom....but that's a bit too literal :)

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Chicken -- it's what's for dinner in Baton Rouge. We plucked those Elsewherians. Again.

Xanna,

The snowflake method is a method of planning and writing a novel. There's been a lot of talk about it the past couple of years. Take a look at this.

http://www.advancedfictionwriting.com/art/snowflake.php

When I say "situational-noveling" I'm referring to Stephen King's method (according to his ON WRITING) of putting characters into a situation and letting them figure their way out of it... sort of letting the story write itself.

Sounds like you've got a good plan going!

I'm actually winging it a lot more than I usually do. I have the beginning and end and several lists of randome things that need to happen in the middle. My outline this year is far less than it was last year but I am super excited about it anyway. I have the feeling I will have some transitional issues but that is what December is for. Woo Hoo. I will definatly be there sunday. See you there. Oh and Courtney? Finger Yoga is awsome! I am now in top noveling shape! ready to leap word counts in a single word war. And hopefully staving off carpal tunnel for another year! Don't worry, I'm stepping away from the coffe now. val

Victory, mmmm tastes like chicken.

This is going to be my first NaNo. I have a loose topic and a dream of finishing, hope those are good enough.

I'm ready. You know it's bad when the characters in your book are yelling at you in your dreams to get started already. Jp and Cameron are mean to me. I don't have a title yet >.<; though it'll appear soon enough. BRING ON NOVEMBER!! I'll see those going to the midnight write in though I may be a bit lucid. It is right after my work shift ....... YEY COFFEE!! I'll also be at the Sunday thing as well. What holiday is better than Halloween to inspire us????? GOOD LUCK we will definitely need it.