[sticky!] The Naperville wordcount graph!

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My novel this year is about my main character Giovanna and how she takes on a grown-older-and-malevolent Peter Pan who has stolen the childhood of one of her close friends. She will need helpful allies in this perilous quest; and, how will she be able to keep up with her schoolwork??

--Tim

Tim Yao aka NewMexicoKid
co-ML, Illinois::Naperville
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I'm in!

My novel is a regency romance about a spoiled heiress who is the toast of the season until she discovers that her fiance has run off to elope with one of her best friends. Now the victim of ridicule and ruin, she decides the only way to save the Season and her pride is to announce another engagement immediately. Who better than the other jilted party? Except the other jilted party wasn't that thrilled about getting married anyway. Hijinks ensue.

Sure, I'll sign up.

A teenage girl, Scarlett, is tricked by her mentor into becoming a lich. Thousands of years later, she restores humanity to the undead of the world and creates a kingdom for them as a safe haven. She finds the integration of the undead back into society to be far from smooth however as, unbeknownst to her, her former mentor's interests run contrary to her own... and he begins to manipulate political powers to stand in her way.

Yay graph!

This year I'm returning to my favorite genre: fantasy. My novel is the first of a trilogy about the clash of cultures between two neighboring communities that have previously only given each other indifference. My MC's are Gryphon, the son of the leader of the Morodian demons, and Martigal, a healer-in-training in the human village (which has yet to be named). There are assassinations, plagues, and all sorts of fun battle scenes soooo off we go!

NaNo '06: The Outside (Urban Fantasy/Sci-Fi | 51,228/50,000)
Screnzy '07: [Untitled] (20,339/20,000)
NaNo '07: Coffee Breaks (Mystery/Suspense | 52,376/50,000)
Nano '08: Prequel to '06 (Urban Fantasy/Sci-Fi | 10,023/50,000)

Add me to the graph, please! :)

1926 in Chicago: Two women are trapped in their own unsatisfactory situation, but neither know of each other. Both come to know of a jazz club, the Golden Lily, and gradually find their own happiness.

Me too!

When his son drowns after he turns his back for just a moment, Wilder McAndrews blames himself. Overwhelmed with guilt, he attempts to take his own life, but does not find the peace he seeks. Instead, he becomes one of the many restless souls wandering the earth in the form of animals, seeking atonement for perceived sins. To find peace and move on, Wilder must face his greatest fear: acknowledging that he doesn't always have the power to save the day.

NaNo 2004- WON! 56k | NaNo 2005- WON! 54k | NaNo 2006- WON! 93k | NaNo 2007- WON! 51k | NaNo 2008- WON! 50k

Planning to win for the 6th yr running!

A mainstream novel -- titled, "Yes, But"

While learning how to apply the principle of 'Yes, And' to their improvisational show, a group of Americans in Edinburgh learn the importance of planning in their personal lives. This is told from the POV of Andy, one of the organizers who isn't sure that moving in with his Cindy and her two kids is what he wants out of life, Nora, a woman who talked her best friend from England into coming with her to perform in an improv show, mainly to help her friend cope with her grief, and Will, a Londoner who because of a bet with a friend is pretending to be Welsh. Even within improv, there's a lot that can go wrong with this crew.

Another Sci-Fi novel for me!

This year it's "The Ruins of Paxton" where a routine cargo delivery to an isolated colony on the edge of the galaxy reveals rising troubles with the indigenous population and strange events happening at the ruins of the colony's first settlement. Events with dire implications for the whole galaxy! *gasp*

:D

The fourth book in the Traveler series, and the continuation of my 2008 NaNo novel, "Living In the Future". So far this one is titled "Dying In the Past", and bad things are going to happen.

Me, please. :]

There are approximately 6,706,993,152 people in the word.
In a matter of moments, five of those 6,706,993,152 lives will be changed forever.

Justin, Faye, Jesica, Tyler, and Sylar all thought that they would be taking a free vacation to Spain. They were looking forward to exploding, meeting new people, and having a good time. They never expecting that they wouldn't make it to their destination.
After three months of being completely alone on an island, the five are rescued and brought back to civilization; but it's hardly the life they remember. The event tests their faith, will, and ability to love.

Send the Troops Your Love
"To shrug." - Ayn Rand

This is an accidental duplicate of the following post.

FinbarrMcG here.

"Sparks" summary:
Rich has been experiencing increasing degree of short-term memory
loss. He reluctantly attends his first high school class reunion (30
years).

With each encounter, vivid memories from his past are sparked,
reminding him of where he's been, and who he wants to be, and
setting him on a new course in life.

Add me, please!

My novel is about a wizard and a duchess who go on a quest to cure their town of a disease that was put upon them by a scorned magician.

NaNo 2006--> WINNER.
NaNo 2007--> WINNER.
NaNo 2008--> Made of fail.
NaNo 2009--> Writing!

Please add me to the list.
Good luck to everyone.

I'd like to be added to the list as well.

Please include me as well. My novel centers around a man who, after his life is shattered by two horrendous events, withdraws into himself. He accidentally discovers that he has the power to make his fantasies reality. Not sure how I am going to get there, but I had the ending in mind before I even started writing!

Ooh, fun!

Somewhere, in a small town, there is a graveyard outside of time and space, where it is perpetually autumn and always raining. The gravedigger... well, he digs graves. He also has to deal with people suddenly dying left and right, a necromancer bringing them back while slowly perfecting his methods, and a growing obsession with a girl with a red umbrella... And meanwhile, he may or may not be going mad.

I believe in ending procrastination... tomorrow.
girl-with-a-notebook.blogspot.com

Sure, what the heck.

An American junior high school student, deeply affected by his best friend's brutal murder by a mob of classmates, moves with his single mother to Tintagel where he discovers his unique abilities and helps his new friends find their own strengths. Allusions to Merlin and Arthurian legend.

--
My name is Hannah Montana
You heard my father
Prepare to linedance

Count me in!

Yay, the graph! You *know* I want in please!

My first shot at first person sci-fi - A being bred to care for others is sent to Earth, but she doesn't know why. She makes a promise to care for the newborn son of a woman she meets in a hospital and must deal with the consequences.

count me in, too!

Can I be included?

Summary: A bunch of college kids end up in a complicated situation after a project based around a web show they started for an assignment gets blown way out of preparation. One must figure out how much the whole thing is worth to her while balancing a fine line between who she is and what everyone wants her to be.

NaNo 2007: A New Kind of Power (around 30000)
NaNo 2008: Hell's the Pits (25000)
NaNo 2009: Cadence

What fun!

Castaway Prophecies

Three human castaways on an uncharted planet discover a time paradox that holds the clue to returning home. They ally with outcasts from warring, disparate alien cultures to find they all share a lost common source. Humans and aliens unite the planet to save it and themselves.

Count me in, please.

Please add me to the graph! My project this year is a paranormal romance about a young woman who discovers her boyfriend is having an affair. Only it goes from bad to worse, as the woman he's having an affair with ends up dead. What the heroine doesn't know is that her boyfriend is also a werewolf. She is chased down by her werewolf boyfriend, only to be saved by another man. She begins to trust this new man, as she learns of all the horrible things her boyfriend has done, only to find out later on that her savior is a werewolf as well.

Add me too please!

My novel continues the adventures of a group of gamers who have their own portal to a magic world. They're unintentionally drawn into the world with no hint of what quest they need to complete to get themselves home. (Under 40 words -sweet!)

Yes, I want to be included. If only for negative reinforcement! and to see that I am not last..... lol! I only wrote for for a few minutes today during lunch, but I will do better tomorrow.

Dream Higher
Crystal in Naperville

Please add me to the graph. Thanks!!

I'm still figuring out my novel... and considering it's day two and I haven't typed a word yet, I should probably get on that :) Here's to a long night!

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Not sure what the novel is about yet, but my characters are about to have a rather interesting time at a fortune teller's...

Sure, put me up there too!

You would think that by now I would have a better handle on what’s happening in my novel, but here goes. This is NaNo after all.

A Los Angeles sculptor meets a member of a secret society of psychics, and their romance leads them both to new discoveries about themselves.

"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." -Oscar Wilde