Just copy the basic introduction listed below and paste it in a reply. Fill out your info (or add to the list) as you wish.
Name:
Handle:
Location:
Age (optional):
Years you have participated:
How you heard about NaNoWriMo:
Genre:
Working Title:
A little about yourself or your Novel:
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"Scars don't make the man y'know? It's how the man bears the scars."
"There is no such thing as day without night, joy without pain, or success without loss, but that will never make it easier for the heart."
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sept. 28, 2008 - 06 53
Name: Harmony
Handle: StarrsChaos (Co-ML)
Location: Gandy area of North St. Pete
Age (optional): 27
Years you have participated: 1999, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, and now 2008
How you heard about NaNoWriMo: back in the day on Open Diary i ran across someone else who was planning on participating. I tried, and failed, and forgot about it until i ran across my old novel again and decided, what the heck! lets try again. Been here ever since.
Genre: Fiction (this time is historic (sci-fi) fiction
Working Title: Clockwork Revolution
A little about yourself or your Novel: I have yet to win a NaNoWriMo, but i have a feeling this is my year. My novel will take place in London 1860s and will be a steampunk based novel, heavy on the punk. My main focus will be on revolutionaries trying to overthrow the rich in power and cause as much chaos as possible. WOO! I cannot wait!
Nice to meet you all!
----------"Scars don't make the man y'know? It's how the man bears the scars."
"There is no such thing as day without night, joy without pain, or success without loss, but that will never make it easier for the heart."
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sept. 28, 2008 - 11 11
Name: Eliska
Handle: kayJen
Location: Largo
Age (optional): almost 58 (Nov 9 - November is a GREAT month)
Years you have participated: a few years ago i tried - don't remember the exact year
How you heard about NaNoWriMo: misc.writing newsgroup
Genre: memoir ( typically i write murder mysteries but plan to dabble in this one for november)
Title: none yet - maybe Bend in the River
A little about yourself or your Novel: i love to read and write murder mysteries.
----------for november though i thought a memoir might have the advantage of built in plot and chronology.
it not that my life has been that newsworthy, but have been told i have a knack for capturing 'nostalgia'
for lack of a better word
now that i have lived long enough, my childhood is 'vintage', occurred during 'mid-century' (hmmm-that sounds like a
good piece to use in the story) and i am still young enough to remember a lot of it.
Eliska a.k.a. kayJen
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oct. 3, 2008 - 09 30
Name: Mike
Handle: Cigarista
Location: Tampa Bay area. Live in Largo. Work at beach at Redington Shores.
Age (optional): 58
Years you have participated: 2005, 6, 7. Won 1st and 3rd. 2nd was a train wreck.
How you heard about NaNoWriMo: A writer friend in Atlanta was doing it and told me about it.
Genre: Mystery/spy/thriller
Working Title: None at the moment
A little about yourself or your Novel:I have a link on my profile if you want details. I'm an ex-R&D techie in computers and telecomm (who's doing some of it again now). I own Cigarista cigar shop in Redington Shores, FL. I write a regular column and some features for Tobacco Retailer magazine. Drop by the store if you ever want to chat about writing.
----------Cigarista
www.cigarista.com
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oct. 3, 2008 - 17 28
Name: Eve
----------Handle: I go by lady_nightcrawler, Ms_Hellsing and just "Eve" at other places. None of those were available when I signed up last year, obviously. So I put in something goofy and POOF.
Location: Middle St. Pete area.
Age (optional): 22
Years you have participated: 2007, something like 58,000 words in 13 days. o_O I barely remember it. I think I may have been possessed, actually.
How you heard about NaNoWriMo: A pushy friend who put a gun to my head... I mean, my best friend.
Genre: Er? I'm not sure. I kind of decide that after it's written.
Working Title: HA! Yea, right.
A little about yourself or your Novel: I'm a semester and a half away from graduating, (USF St. Pete) writing my thesis and I'm a poor multitasker, so needless to say... my thesis director is going to be VERY grumpy with me come this November. I'm driven mostly by a pure, unrelenting competitive nature, which is how I wrote over 50k in 13 days. I hope to at least match that, or my ego will curl up in a corner and die. But who needs one of those, anyway?
Shakespeare once said, "All the world's a stage and all the men and women merely players." Keep in mind, the guy was a really big fan of body counts.
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oct. 4, 2008 - 08 58
Hello, everyone!
Name: Leslie
Handle: FabulaScribe
Location: West Pasco County
Age (optional): 44
Years you have participated: 2004 - 2007, and now 2008
How you heard about NaNoWriMo: On someone's diary on diaryland
Genre: Paranormal Suspense
Working Title: Complete Clarity
A little about yourself or your Novel: I haven't won a NaNo yet, but this just may be my year. Even if I don't finish, I love the excitement of knowing that so many people all over the world are doing the same thing I am doing, and it's a great way to jump-start into a new novel. Complete Clarity is the second in a series, the first of which I started in NaNo 2006. I am very excited about this series and have mapped out the titles and basic plotlines of each of them (there are six, altogether).
51,696 / 50,000
oct. 4, 2008 - 11 24
Name: Rachel
Handle: Writenaked
Location: TENNESSEE although I'm in Florida about twice a year due to being best pals with the great and Powerful OZ up there.
Age (optional): 25
Years you have participated: 06-07
How you heard about NaNoWriMo: I picked up a copy of No Plot No Problem and after reading it got more excited by it than an incontinent puppy.
Genre: Yes, I have on of those.
Working Title: You can call me Your Highness. My book is title free currently.
A little about yourself or your Novel: I'm feisty, pushy, and love write ins. I'm headed to DC during the latter part of the month and only WISH it were Florida. Florida in November...yum.
My novel is an underformed thing, currently consisting of two index cards with single character names on them. I'd be more concerned but this is how last year started and that went fine.
----------http://thewritenaked.livejournal.com/
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oct. 4, 2008 - 11 27
Happy upcoming birthday!
I admire anyone who can write a memoir. I start then get bored with myself and suddenly aliens are invading which I'm pretty sure hasn't happened to me IRL as I'm not a Scientologist. I can't wait to read a passage or two of yours!
----------http://thewritenaked.livejournal.com/
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oct. 4, 2008 - 11 28
*waves at Eve* HI!
----------http://thewritenaked.livejournal.com/
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oct. 4, 2008 - 12 54
Name: Caroline
----------Handle: Enilorac (it's my name spelled backwards)
Location: St. Pete... near downtown
Age (optional): 14
Years you have participated: this is my first!
How you heard about NaNoWriMo: I found it surfing the internet a while ago, then I was reminded of it when a bunch of people on Writing.com started going nutso about it a couple weeks ago.
Genre: Haven't decided yet; I'm debating between fantasy and umm...not fantasy
Working Title: I have no idea yet...
A little about yourself or your Novel: I'm in 8th grade, and I've been writing since I discovered a book and started trying to copy the little funny shapes my parents called letters. You can read some of my writing here: www.writing.com/authors/enilorac. I love to read, write, sail, and get involved in stuff at school. I'd list all the clubs and teams I'm in, but you would get bored reading it. Can't wait to get started!
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oct. 4, 2008 - 13 04
Name: Stacy
Handle: slingzen (It makes sense.)
Location: USF SP dorm. Anybody else...?
Age (optional): 19, yo.
Years you have participated: Three, I think. I'm pretty sure. Doesn't really matter, as I've always failed... but not this year! WHOOOOOOO!
How you heard about NaNoWriMo: Um... no idea. Some website, somewhere.
Genre: Uh... action / sci-fi / tiiiny bit of romance / rockin'-awesome?
Working Title: Paradigm Shift (oooooo, spooky!)
A little about yourself or your Novel: Oofa. Well, I've always loved loved loved to read, so writing was just sort of natural progression, and I want to be a professional writer, yadda yadda yadda. Ya'll have heard all this before, I'm sure.
Uh, my book is about Carson Green and his E.R.I.C. (Experimental Research Investigation and Conatainment) team, findin' weird stuff and taking care of it. Anyway, one of the weird things is this little northwest coast town where the people have started, y'know, changing, so the Govn't wants to destroy them and make it look like a natural disaster, E.R.I.C. is like no way, and it's this whole big thing.
There's more to it then that, of course, but that's basically the gist of it.
Yerp.
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oct. 4, 2008 - 13 12
Ladies and gents, meet my pushy... er... best friend who got me into NaNo! Shes' clearly come to
----------force me to writecheer me on!Shakespeare once said, "All the world's a stage and all the men and women merely players." Keep in mind, the guy was a really big fan of body counts.
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oct. 16, 2008 - 05 18
Name: Kasey
----------Handle: NephthysMoon
Location: Largo
Age (optional): 26
Years you have participated: This is my first NaNo
How you heard about NaNoWriMo: Oh? Well, I've been involved in fandom for the past three - you can't go anywhere in fandom without hearing about NaNo these days
Genre: SciFi (yay! I figured it out!)
Working Title: Sacaea: Return of the Light
A little about yourself or your Novel: I'm a mom and I work for a geotech firm here in town. There's not a whole lot else to know about me. My DH is a little concerned that I'm doing this, but determined to be supportive.
_____
Sacaea: Return of the Light - 0 words
"Yet, sadly, accidental rudeness occurs alarmingly often. Best to say nothing at all, my dear man." ~Albus Dumbledore
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oct. 6, 2008 - 07 10
Name: Tom
Handle: Depends on where I am. Patriot5 is just a name is used in the game that got me started writing (fanfics, of course).
Location: Pinellas Park
Age: 18
Years you have participated: Failed miserably last year, so I don't know whether to make this my first or second official year.
How you heard about NaNoWriMo: I have no idea, honestly.
Genre: Fantasy
Working Title: Fated (It's just something I slapped into the novel info section. I'm 90% certain this won't be the final title)
A little about yourself or your Novel:
----------Myself: Right now, I'm just trying to work my way around college classes at St. Pete College. Hopefully I'll still have enogh time for NaNo.
Novel: Standard evil empire, standard orphan hero who's not old enough to buy alcohol but needs it, standard set of prophecies of a savior from evil. The twist? The MC starts twisting prophecy around him.
Life is like a box of chocolates.
Expensive and devoured by others.
50,060 / 50,000
oct. 6, 2008 - 16 47
Name: Tiffany
Location: Gulfport, FL
Years you have participated: this is the first!
How you heard about NaNoWriMo: Bella Books Author's Forum
Genre: Erotica
Working Title: Butch Swagger, Femme Glamor
A little about yourself or your Novel: it's a butch-femme collection of erotic short stories ... a more detailed synopsis can be found under my Novel Info :)
888 / 50,000
oct. 6, 2008 - 18 02
Name: Michele (twentyafter7)
Location: Saint Petersburg, FL
Age (optional): 32
Years you have participated: 02, 03, 04, 05, 07
How you heard about NaNoWriMo: Don't remember. Probably a website.
Working Title: No working title yet.
A little about yourself or your Novel: I love November in Florida. It feels like May in Ohio. Wam sun, cooler breezes. I'm a co-ML. I'm here for you. We're going to get through this and WIN!
5,356 / 50,000
oct. 6, 2008 - 18 44
Name: Jessica
----------Handle: Aquamarine
Location: Dunedin
Age (optional): 24
Years you have participated: 2005-Present
How you heard about NaNoWriMo: A friend in college
Genre: Romance/Erotic Fiction
Working Title: Reality of Real Life
A little about yourself or your Novel: Not much. . .both me and the novel are too complex to list here without going into deeper detail and others losing interest ;-).
-----
Aquamarine
5,061 / 50,000
oct. 8, 2008 - 15 36
Name:Mallory
Location:St petersburg
Age (optional): 17
Years you have participated: 2007
How you heard about NaNoWriMo: I found out about it on someones livejournal.
Genre: Mostly likely adventure of some sort.
A little about yourself or your Novel: I havent actually had time to think about which idea I want to use for nano this year.
And I cant wait to possibly meet some of you =]]
----------
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oct. 14, 2008 - 10 49
Name: Rowena
Handle: rosymamacita
Location: St Pete
Age (optional): 38 on Nov 19th
Years you have participated: 2006, won at 100k!, 2007, won, but did the count wrong and I don't think it got counted. I still had the words and the book, though, so that's all that matters to me, really.
How you heard about NaNoWriMo: A long time ago while surfing the web, but it was already halfway through Nov. Then again a couple years ago on 43things.com and I jumped on.
Genre: Science Fiction
Working Title: Mythos Rebellion
A little about yourself or your Novel: I was in Brooklyn for the last 2 nanos, so this will be my first in St Pete.
----------Think of black water.
Think up a white sky.
Think up a boat.
Think of BLOOGS blowing by.
-T. Geisel
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oct. 15, 2008 - 19 12
Name: Crystal
----------Handle: Tortured_Artist, but I go by many things. Too bad I can't change it. =/
Location: Seminole/Largo
Age (optional): 17
Years you have participated: '06, '07, '08 Haven't won one yet. /sigh
How you heard about NaNoWriMo: Through word of mouth and LJ while surfing.
Genre: Uh not sure yet. Realistic/Psychological? Some Suspense and maybe a dash of sature i have no clue. Mostly the first two though, lol.
Working Title: So Far Away (it sucks, but it popped in my head. Probably just going to be a chapter title though.)
A little about yourself or your Novel: I go to SPC and am a nursing major. And that alone is driving me insane. Add NaNo and you have.....yeah hell if I know. =/
"There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person."
-Anais Nin
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oct. 17, 2008 - 06 40
Name: Cate
Handle: roomofmyown
Location: Gulfport
Age (optional): 60 - best decade yet
Years you have participated: 2
How you heard about NaNoWriMo: a friend told me
Genre: Fiction
Working Title: The Nature of Things (maybe)
A little about yourself or your Novel:
A mystery of sorts - still working the plot line - and tempest fugit
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oct. 18, 2008 - 06 11
Name: Chrissy
----------Handle: Jiangling
Location: Eckerd
Age (optional): 21
Years you have participated: The last three
How you heard about NaNoWriMo: I think through my freshman roommate
Genre: Paranormal?
Working Title: Fictional reality?
A little about yourself or your Novel: Recently I've been playing an ARG (alternate reality game, meaning someone sets up a puzzle, usually online, that takes a group of people trying to put the pieces together. It's an interesting form of collective fiction). Anyway, the one I've been in involves communication with spirits via internet phenomena and static sound clips, etc, so I was thinking it would make a cool story if an ARG along similar lines turned out to be real. Real spirits, real world happenings. I have very little idea of what exactly I'll be doing with this, but it seemed like an interesting idea.
Fly, fly my little wrimos! Fly to the ever-approaching insanity!!!
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oct. 18, 2008 - 06 17
Age (optional): 14
Years you have participated: this is my first!
We got a young'n! XD Welcome to the craziness that is wrimo.
And to whoever it was who was turning 58 on Nov. 9-- I'll be 22 on the 7th. November [i]is[/i] a great month.
~ Fly, fly my little wrimos! Fly to the ever-approaching insanity!!! ~
----------Fly, fly my little wrimos! Fly to the ever-approaching insanity!!!
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oct. 18, 2008 - 08 34
Name: Tim
Handle: Seven_Rings
Location: Seminole
Age (optional): 14
Years you have participated: This is the first.
How you heard about NaNoWriMo: A friend *points at Patriot5*
Genre: All different Genres, mostly Fantasy.
Working Title: No title as of yet.
A little about yourself or your Novel: This is my first year of NaNo, and I would really like to come to some of the meetings, but telling my parents that I would like to go hang out with people I met on a message board doesnt seem like it would go over well. Especially there being so many adults. So odds are, I will be there in spirit, unless anyone has any good advice for me :P
I have MSN if anyone wants a good chat.
MSN: utopiasharp@gmail.com
Look forward to getting to know you guys,
-Seven_Rings
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oct. 18, 2008 - 09 02
Yes! Another my age! I have the same problem with the meet-ups. =( If I get an idea of how to work around it I'll let you know...
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oct. 18, 2008 - 10 35
Name: Linda
Handle: SmoothSeas
Location: St. Petersburg
Age (optional): 58 and a half.
Years you have participated: First time taking the plunge
How you heard about NaNoWriMo: Familiar with it, but linked from absolutewrite.com
Genre: Mainstream/Contemporary
Working Title
A little about yourself or your Novel: Retired Merchant Marine and expatriated Chicagoan
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oct. 18, 2008 - 12 22
If your parents want to talk to some of us on the phone to help ease their minds, I'm sure I'm not the only person who would be willing to do that. I know I was crazy nervous the first time I went to a meet-up three years ago, but it was fine. I'm not sure how many of the meet-ups I'll be able to get to so I may not be the best choice, but I wanted to put this out here as a thought.
Any people who will be more regularly attending meet-ups and write-ins want to offer moral support for anxious parents?
[edit]As an afterthought, if you would like to get in contact with me by phone, send me a NaNoMail and I'll give you my number. I don't like putting it out publicly, but if you message me wanting to have your parents talk to me, it's cool. ^^
----------Fly, fly my little wrimos! Fly to the ever-approaching insanity!!!
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oct. 18, 2008 - 17 44
Attention Pre-Adults:
Well, what do I respectfully call you? You're not pre-teens anymore. Coal miners. Cool minors.
I suggest you check out Nanowrimo's Young Writers Program http://ywp.nanowrimo.org/ and get your parent/guardians involved and on board with your word-count goals. There is even a page with a sweet letter to parent/guardians on the YWP website. http://ywp.nanowrimo.org/lettertoparents There don't seem to be defined forums on that site but maybe that will change before November is here.
If my kid told me he wanted to go to a meetup, I'd go with him to it. My kid is 2 so he won't be telling me that anytime soon.
Did you tell your English teacher about this? Did he/she have an interesting reaction?
I'm going to post this in the main area to start a new thread. Hope you reply there!
-Michele
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oct. 18, 2008 - 22 07
Name: Gena
Handle: Genaral
Location: Eckerd
Age (optional): 20
Years you have participated: The last three... I've never gotten close to finishing. Oh well.
How you heard about NaNoWriMo: Creative Writing Club at the college.
Genre: No idea yet. Perhaps Fantasy, perhaps Li-Fi.
Working Title: ? Should I make one up on the spot? Hmmm... Working Title: Pace the World in Scores and Dashes. Heh, I kind of like it.
A little about yourself or your Novel: Student who is too busy and should not even think about attacking another nano.
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oct. 19, 2008 - 19 23
... Li-Fi...?
----------Shakespeare once said, "All the world's a stage and all the men and women merely players." Keep in mind, the guy was a really big fan of body counts.
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oct. 20, 2008 - 17 08
Name: Charlie W.
Handle: chaswick
Location: Seminole
Age: 28
Years: 0
How I Heard: Misc. fiction writer's help websites
Genre: Any
Working Title: ?
A little about yourself or your novel:
No predispositions, I am going to look at a few random flickr pics on the 1st and go from there. Not too worried beyond that. If I get to 50000 great, if not I will be happy with whatever I do get to. Looking to develop the habit of writing. Not going to restrict what I write about any way if I can help it (poitics, religion, sex, etc)
Other: Grad student at UF, undergrad degree in Geography from USF, working on masters in urban and regional planning, computer programming experience, enjoy sports, affected profoundly by my reading of atlas shrugged and subsequent psychological turmoil, enjoy reading books where philisophical questions are at least part of the plot, action-packed novels, and assorted others.
Favorite readings include many sci-fi/fantasy novels: Brittain's Yurt series, Xanth novels, Recluse novels, Black Company novels, some Asimov, S.M. Sirling and David Drake's General books, Han Solo adventures, Prophet of Lamath books, Phule's Company, several of the Wing Commander books, Dietz and some Lackey stuff, Hunt for Red October, Jurassic Park, Shakespeare sonnets, assorted poetry anthologies, assorted speeches including: Socrates Speech following his conviction and (*edited) Pericles' eulogy to fallen soldiers, archie comic books, etc.
That should be more than enough info ;)