Welcome!

hey guys! It'll be my second nano, and I'm super excited.
I'm thinking about doing two nanos this year, maybe either 75K or 100K! yes!
I live in Fairhope. I didn't go to the meetups last year, but this year I will! (probably)
yay
go us!

This will be my first nano. Mostly, I am excited about the prospect of that much focused writing. The "rebels" folder opened the door for non-novel writing, and made a place for me.

Hey, Y'all!

I've got two books published, but this is my first NaNoWriMo, so I'm really excited about it. BTW, I'm president of the Mobile Writers Guild, and we're having a one-day writers conference tomorrow (Oct. 11) at the West Regional library. Come see me!

Hey, everyone. This is my first NaNoWriMo, so I'm nervous about getting the writing done but I'm also really looking forward to it. Hopefully this will get me out of the writing funk I've been in the past year or so. Can't wait to get started!

This is my first nano and I'm very excited. I live in Fairhope. I'm trying to get a couple of my writer friends around the country to join me in this adventure. I don't expect to write anything momentous, but there's one particular guy that I just *know* could turn this into the basis a really fine book. He writes a lot of short stuff -- vignettes, memoirs, humor. It's time for him to attempt a novel, and this looks like a fantastic way to get started.

So, if nothing else, I'm at least here for moral support for others in this very worthwhile project!

Hi everyone!

I'm Frank. I live in Mobile. I'm studying creative writing at USA. I'm a bit into a novel right now, and I want to add on at least 50,000 words to it over November. This will be my second Nanowrimo and hopefully my first success! I'm really looking forward to meeting and writing with you all!

Okay, Emby's here, the party can start! :D

Hi, folks. This is my very first NaNoWriMo, though I've been meaning to join for years now. I'm an artist and writer who would love to do it for a living because what I actually do for a living isn't much of a challenge. With a little luck and a good tail wind I'm hoping to actually participate in NaNo this year. Maybe I'll drag my partner into it, too!

Hmm, Emby, don't suppose you happened to work at a certain movie theater in the past year, did you? If so, I used to be one of your co-workers. :)

Also, Frank, how are the creative writing classes here at South? I was thinking about taking a few next year but wasn't really sure.

The creative writing classes at South (fiction especially) are a lot of fun, and the workload isn't too tough ;) I took Linda Parker's fiction writing I & II and learned a heck of a lot about descriptive writing, plot, and structure. Right now I'm in Carolyn Haynes' advanced fiction writing and so far its been very helpful because we do thorough page-by-page critiques. Both classes are pretty focused on work-shopping, so you get to read other students work and make comments and they do the same for you. It really helps to know what you're doing right and where you can potentially improve--most importantly both Haynes and Parker encourage you and really try to help you become a better writer. Overall, they're fun and I learned a lot. Definitely recommend them!

Oh, I hate that I missed the writer's conference! This will be my first nanowrimo. I haven't really written fiction in a LONG time, so this will be an interesting experience.

Any info on the Writers Guild you can share (website? regular meetings?)?

What's this about doing TWO nanowrimos, you other dude? Seriously, that sounds really stressful! I'm getting sweaty over having to put put ~1,300 words a day as it is. Thank goodness it's "quantity over quality" -- I'm such a perfectionist about stuff like this that only the word count is going to keep me from obsessively going over sentences 15 times.

I'm jazzed, though!

('Scuse any typos -- my hands are freezing!)

Hi!

This is my first NaNoWriMo and I'm looking forward to pushing myself to write. I love writing, but I tend to work for a few days and then run out of ideas and go weeks before I pick up my pen again. I need to become consistent.

I'm not set on an idea yet, I only decided to do this yesterday, but I have had a fantasy story idea hanging around in my head for a year or so that I'm toying with,

Anna

Hey everyone!

My name is Jamie and this will be my first attempt at NaNoWriMo and I'm pretty excited! Nervous as h-e-double hockey sticks but very looking forward to it as well. I really look forward to working with all of you and getting into the swing of writing again. I'm a lot like Anna in that I get really focused for a few weeks and put out some really great work but then I 'lose my muse' and fall flat...hopefully not during November though!

Jamie

Hey y'all. :)

My name is Sharon and this is my first NaNoWriMo. I kind of signed up on a whim. I've been doing quite a bit of writing over the past year, but all recreational (dare I say fanfic), so I figured I might as well try my hand at original characters. The other stuff has been lots of fun and good practice. I expect this to be an interesting exercise, as I have no formal writing training. All I know I've learned from the stories I've read and liked. *shrug*

Anyway, we'll see what I have come November 30. :)

Sharon,

I'm a fanfic writer too! I mean, I write other stuff for myself but the only things I've put out there have been ff.

Oh cool. Good to see that I'm not the only one. I actually take my ff writing rather seriously. :P My story's is going to be slight fantasy/scifi, too. I guess more scifi, actually.

I'm Tabby, and I'm also studying creative writing at USA, this is my first NaNoWriMo. I'm excited yet scared to be doing this. . .hopefully everything will go well!

I'm taking poetry writing with Dr. Walker, I love it so much!

Hey Tabby. *waves* :)

Is this Dr. Susan Walker, who was the Poet Laureate of Alabama?

Hi! I'm Tracy and live in Mobile. I have been working on a YA novel for several years ("finished" a very rough first draft during nano a couple of years ago and am still slogging through the revisions!).

For this year, I'm starting a new YA, a companion novel to the first. This one is historical fiction and has a clearer plotline as it follows an actual event. So I'm hoping to finish with a novel that is not quite so rough as the first one. So far so good. But what's going to trip me up a bit is the research, especially the stuff to get the time period, voices, and "stage business" right. For now, I'm just writing the scenes, researching once I get my daily writing quota donem and will save messaging in the details during the revision stage.

I'm also co-founder of the Mobile Writers Guild. We have a meeting tomorrow night. From Pres. Joyce Scarbrough's announcement:

Our monthly meeting is tomorrow night, Thursday, November 6 at 6:30 pm in the meeting room at the West Regional library on Grelot Road. Our guest speaker will be Dr. Lonnie Burnett who will give us a presentation on his new book, Henry Hotze: Confederate Propagandist.

For more information see our website: www.mobilewritersguild.org.

Hope you are all off to a fantastic start!
Tracy

Another NaNo Noob trying to make the break from fanfic. I have written since well...I could but I have a hard time completing things. Figured this was a great support system and decided to stop dragging my feet!