Mary-Lynn | National Novel Writing Month

About Mary-Lynn

Location: Taos, NM, USA

Home Region:
United States :: New Mexico :: Elsewhere

Age:26

Favorite novels: 1984. Dark Tower series. Good Omens. Desert Solitaire. I would never read what I write, though.

Favorite writers: Edward Abbey, Neil Gaiman, Bill Bryson, John McPhee, Terry Pratchett, Piers Anthony, Ray Bradbury, Richard Dawkins. But I don't write like that.

Favorite music: Visit my Last.fm profile to see what I'm listening to: http://www.last.fm/user/Alter_Idem/

Non-noveling interests: I start a job 11/11/08 at a call center. Not putting my shiny new degree to use at all but it'll pay the bills.

Joined: Octubre 18, 2005

This Year: Official Participant

NaNoWriMo History:
'05 '06 '07

NaNoWriMo posts: 42

NaNoWriMo buddies: 9

Brief Author Bio:

Sometime in Oct.:
I won one. Gave up on two. Might have time this year to do it.

I swore I wasn't going to do NaNo this year. However, I may actually have time for it this year since I graduated college in June and am underemployed.

11/2:
Now it's the second and I have nothing. I started over three times yesterday before giving up for the day. We'll try again today.

11/3:
Things are going much better. Still don't know where this is going but it's kept my interest so far.

11/7:
At about 11K words, I realized I have no plot. Right now, I just passed 14K and a plot is still being elusive. I mean, my novel is "character-driven." Even if my characters are boring and flat.

I'm mostly here because I have nothing better to do.

11/10:
Apparently a weekend away was what it took. Plot has been discovered in my novel. It's a derivative plot that I wrote on quite often in high school, but it counts.

11/15:
I've made it farther than I did last year and the year before.

Synopsis: The Art of Star Counting

Title adopted from Jacob_the_Distracted.

I still don't know where this is all going to end or where it began.

Mary-Lynn's Writing Buddies

shadesofbrixton	0 / 50,000
Betani	1,685 / 50,000
krudmonger	3,225 / 50,000
catknitslace	74,086 / 50,000
RavenUsher	7,075 / 50,000

Soulfire	19,009 / 50,000
poserpunkredux	0 / 50,000
Anotherinnocence	18,013 / 50,000
ohjammer	57,807 / 50,000