Oh I am so happy! I have been wondering aimlessly for days, just waiting and watching. I am getting so excited about this year. I will also announce the Kickoff party for Anchorage will be held at the Denny's on Denali at 9:00 on October 31st. We will be doing some games and such until midnight and then will be mad writing. The Anchorage crew also gets together the third thursday of every month and we will be there in October too. For the kickoff please come (if you so desire) dressed as one of your characters, be it major or minor. I am so looking forward to seeing all of you.
Kim (Anchorage ML)
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2006 winner: Scraps of the Heart
2007 winner: Torn to Piec
50,316 / 50,000
sept. 26, 2008 - 15 12
Wow, the site looks amazing! It's unfair that I'm going to be in Anchorage this weekend, at Auroracon, instead of staying home and playing on the site. Maybe I'll sneak off and log on when there isn't much going on. ;D
The Valley doesn't have it's plans set, mostly due to a possible lost of our meeting location, but we are planning to have a state-wide online countdown in the aim chat room followed by kick off party slash write in on the 1st. We're also going to have mid-week write ins, tentatively scheduled for every Wednesday at Pandemonium Books.
----------Alaska/Mat-su Valley Co-ML
Yay for the Trebuchet Club!
20,000 / 50,000
sept. 26, 2008 - 18 35
Oh, for a Denny's! We have an IHOP, but they don't stay open all night, which means (bummer) no all-night kickoff-and-writetastic-write-in out here, at least not in person. All the same, we're plotting fun and fabulousness for the get-togethers, and there's a corner of my living room already beginning to gather bits and bobs designated for NaNo Gathering Awesomeness.
I'm really getting excited about this November. Somehow the timing just feels right. This year I'm outlining beforehand, to see if that cuts down on my making faces at the screen/paper and whining about not knowing what comes next. The best nano year I've had so far was the year when I pretty much knew what was going to happen, start to finish. I've never actually successfully completed a written outline, so we'll see how it goes. I'm pretty enthusiastic about it so far, though. I ran into two wrimos from Anchorage at a writing conference earlier this summer (I can't remember your forum names off the top of my head, and am not sure whether you want your real names posted, so please forgive), and one of them raved about a book called Book in a Month, which walks you through (shock of shocks) writing/outlining/whatevering a book in a month. I finally got around to ordering a copy and am working through it. So far I'm digging it. It's a little outside my comfort zone - I find myself wishing there were a teacher I could ask questions of for exacting clarity - but I think that's actually just my brain going AGHHHH! AGHHH! PANIC! at the thought of planning.
How's everybody doing? What's your strategy for tackling the 30 Day Beast this year?
----------I'm (one of your two) friendly neighborhood Mat-Su Valley ML(s). (The other one is Indigo.) If you have any questions, don't hesitate to get in touch - we're here to help!
209,198 / 50,000
sept. 26, 2008 - 19 23
I'm a huge fan of "by the seat of my pants, but with a strong premise." No outlines, but knowing what the books for NaNo are going to be about. I pretty well know what is going to have to happen, though.
I'm so glad the site is back--it's so sleek shiny, much like the new t-shirt. If you don't have one, get one. They're amazing. I can't wait to get started on my NaNos!
-Bri (avoiding self-imposed deadlines)
----------NaNo 2008: Untitled (Goal: 50k) (Urban Fantasy) (Typewriter)
NaNo 2008: Imperial Judge (Goal: 75k) (Dystopia)
NaNo 2008: The Whistler (Goal: 75k) (Horror)
12,005 / 50,000
sept. 27, 2008 - 01 43
I'm in Ketchikan; I don't have balls else to do in November anyway!
...Well, except try my damnedest NOT to get sucked into Wrath of the Lich King. However, that's its own subject.
----------2004-- Twilight of the Blind (Won!)
2005-- Untitled, with Imploding Tables (12k, damn you, WoW!)
2006-- Season of Shadow (20k, damn you, WoW!)
2007-- The Scarlet's Confession (Won! WoW Fanfic FTW!)
2008-- Music of the Spheres (Tinfoil hat alert!)
39,799 / 50,000
sept. 27, 2008 - 08 16
Hi all - I'm struggling to finish my current W.I.P. before NaNo starts - can we say September NaNo? Argh, my family hates me. I tell myself I'll take October off, but in the back of my mind there is editing to do ...
Summer - it was me with the Book in a Month at Kachemak Bay. I'm still using it. I don't follow it every day, but the premise of it keeps me going, and when I get stuck, I flip through the daily pages until something I read jars my creativity. Seems to be working. Finished my novel I was writing in June, and the current one is about half done. Then there will be third for NaNo. Yikes! Guess Ill be editing over the holidays.
And Underwater Bonfire - I get ya on that one - big WoW fan myself, and I was a little dismayed the announced release for November. Ahhh, the temptation.
Anyway, happy writing / outlining, one and all. And don't NOT write now, just because you're "saving up" for NaNo. Creativity is a way of life!
Tami
50,062 / 50,000
sept. 28, 2008 - 18 14
Man, I can't wait! I even took the first week of novemeber off of work this year so I can try to build up cushion for when I have to go back to work. Woo!
----------Nanon 07; Red Eye Coyote
1,763 / 50,000
sept. 28, 2008 - 18 34
I think I may even be ready to go this year. Is anyone else doing the "Muse On Line Writer's Conference" in October? I think that will be a big help to get me psyched up for NaNo.
Bev
30,000 / 50,000
sept. 29, 2008 - 12 50
Hi, I did this last year (and the year before that, and the year before THAT, lol) but I changed my username. New year new start and all that. I'm up in Fairbanks and I'll be writing a YA novel.
----------Of course the illusion of art is to make one believe that great literature is very close to life, but exactly the opposite is true. Life is amorphous, literature is formal. - Francoise Sagan
209,198 / 50,000
oct. 2, 2008 - 19 48
It's back, again! Thank goodness! I was dying without the forums to check compulsively every three minutes.
----------NaNo 2008: Untitled (Goal: 50k) (Urban Fantasy) (Typewriter)
NaNo 2008: Imperial Judge (Goal: 75k) (Dystopia)
NaNo 2008: The Whistler (Goal: 75k) (Horror)
50,330 / 50,000
oct. 2, 2008 - 19 50
I thought the site wouldn't be back up until Oct. 1, so I didn't check until yesterday. And it was sick when I checked yesterday and this morning, but I sort of expected that since I remembered that happening last year, too.
I'm working on an outline, too, and character names. Some will be the same since it is a Part 2 or second in a series, but there will also be new characters.
I'm pretty excited. It really helped last year--actually having a group in Anchorage to meet with.
0 / 50,000
oct. 4, 2008 - 04 06
Hey everyone!
It's little old me, back again. Just here to do some writing. Any writing. Even just a little bit (probably just a little bit ;)
Not sure how many meetings I'm going to be able to make. My job has me working until midnight every night. I REALLY want that changed. So.... we'll see :)
----------"I struggle for the words and then give up..."
9,927 / 50,000
oct. 5, 2008 - 23 35
Bwahaha!
Ahoy thar, I see panic on the horizon!
Yes, another year in which I probably won't hit 50,000 words, but this year, I have picked a very forceful peanut gallery with which to haunt my writing. I very much believe they'll poke me with hot irons if I don't make it, so I think that should be sufficient incentive to not make a mess of it.
I'm not sure if I'll show up to the party as a character or not. It rather depends on whether one of my characters ends up being a skanky Robin Hood. What? YES, I'M GOING TO BE A SKANKY ROBIN HOOD FOR HALLOWEEN. >.<
... My best friend is going to be a Slutty Sherlock Holmes, is that any better?
----------16,754 / 50,000
oct. 7, 2008 - 15 35
Greetings! I'm in Anchorage. I'm here for my fourth year of torture. I bombed out pretty early last year since no one idea was screaming write me. My goal is to get 50k written this year, I will finish NaNo at least once even if it kills me. This year I've got 2 different things I want to accomplish. Finish the sequel to my first book and get that baby submitted to my publisher then start working on my muses/fates series that I've been researching like mad and writing up character sheets for. I've got pages of ideas on what to do to each one *insert evil smiley face*.
I've got a 'Book in a month' book as well, it's called "First Draft in 30 days" is that the one y'all are talking about? It's too structured for my little panster heart, but I still use pieces of it for every wip, like the character, setting, and plot sketches and the research chapter.
I would love to make the kick off party, hopefully the hubby will be around to watch the kiddies.
----------TTFN-Missy:
NaNo 2008: Love and Muses
1,763 / 50,000
oct. 7, 2008 - 15 46
Did you get the one by Chris Baty? It's called No Plot - No Problem. Available from Amazon. It is written with NaNo in mind and is great.
16,754 / 50,000
oct. 8, 2008 - 14 47
Yes, I have that one as well.
----------TTFN-Missy:
NaNo 2008: Love and Muses