Hello, Lewis County Wrimos!

Hello Liz! How are you?

I'm gearing up for a slightly more prepared November this year!

Sheryl

Hey I'm a member of the Seattle region now but I grew up in Chehalis and attended Centralia College so I just wanted to shout out to all you Lewis Countyins! I bet I know some of you...my real name is Anna Griffith if any of you know me!!

Hello, Anna! Nice to meet you! If you're in the area when we are having a write-in, I hope you'll join us -- we'd love to meet you in person!

Katrina, Larry, Amy -- where are you???

I am in the Napavine/Chehalis area :)

I'm here! I'm here!

I really don't have time for this -- I'm frantically trying to finish a Nov. 30 revision deadline (self-imposed: like an idiot, I booked myself for November!). But I don't think I'll be able to resist the fun.

I don't know if Amy and Larry are joining us this year though.

Katrina

Sheryl! Hi! Good to see you!

And good for you for being more prepared. I'm even LESS prepared, and that's saying something.

I do have an idea though. I'm not sure it'll work, but November's probably the best time to find out.

Welcome, Evila! Nice to see ya. Hope to meet you in person at a write-in.

Hey, Liz! Have we scheduled our first meeting yet?

Hi, Katrina!

Busy as usual, I see! I figure if my original idea doesn't work, it'll morph into something eventually.

LOL. That's exactly what I'm counting on: it morphing into something. Right now my idea is a VERY serious tragic drama. But I can't sell a tragic drama right after my current WIP which is definitely humor (albeit dark humor). So how can I morph my tragedy into humor????

That's the Q for November.

Hello, Sheryl! Hello, Katrina, our new co-ML!! How's it going? Just got back from my class at UW. It's such a great class! The only problem with it is that it will leave little time for my novel. Tonight, we were reviewing Roland Barthes' 'Death of the Author.' Very interesting, but I don't think I like the name of that in connection with Nano!

Larry? Who's Larry??? Anybody named Larry surely should not be allowed in here...

:P

Oh, excuse me! I do apologize! How could I make such a mistake?

Hello, Alien! How's it going?

Hey, Alien! May I call you Alien?

Hi all!

I finally made it in here after a long internal debate in which I told myself that under no circumstances was I going to participate in Nano this year. How foolish of me! Nano is too wily and seductive for my weak attempts at resistance. I should have known there was no way I could stay away.

How is the novel preparation going for everyone?

Amy

LOL. I think it means your November workload is likely to do you in!

ROFL!! Me too, Ophelia. Me too.

*waves at Alien, who is NOT Larry*

Hooray! I was hoping NaNo would lure you in, Amy! (You'll have to be Amy #1, now, with 2 Amies in our group -- that's right, isn't it? Drop the y and add i-e-s?)

Hello everyone.
-Tia

Hi, Tia! Nice to have you!

Wow, we've got a great group going here, you guys. Hope to see everyone at the kickoff part Nov. 1 at Centralia Library. I'm really excited about this year!

Hi, Tia! Happy to have you join us!

Hello! I'm Stefania and I'm from the Winlock area. This will be my first year NaNo-ing and I'm REALLY excited. i can barely wait to get started. *waves*

so... is there reason behind choosing bermuda to compete with? is it just a similar number of participants?

Hello, Stefania! Delighted to meet you! Actually, I made a mistake -- last year we took on the Bahamas, not Bermuda (sorry, Bermuda!). We chose that country because we had the same number of official registered participants. Unfortunately for them, after taking up the challenge, only 2 or 3 of their members actually took part, and we had 5 very verbose, anxious-to-beat-an-entire-country members. It was fun. They had to google us to find where in the world we were.

Hello all! I wasn't quite sure where to put the "Hi I a..." Message, so i'll put it here!

Hello everyone! I heard about this place from my mother and couldn't wait to join in! This is going to be my first year in and i can't wait to get writing! I've been writing since i was 14, so that's about 11 years now.
If there's anything else i need to tell you all, just let me know! Great meeting you all and happy writing!

Sylista

Nice to meet you,. Sylista! It's great to have you with us. 11 years of writing -- that's wonderful! Hope you can come to our meetings; we plan to do all sorts of inspirational, fun stuff to get everyone writing.

I'm planning on making as many of the meetings as i can! I can't wait to get started!

I'm excited for the start of NaNo, but really, I wish I were more prepared. I just don't feel ready yet. I guess I have a week, don't I? I suppose that should plenty of time, right?

I would say of course, but i'm one of those "Ohihaveanideaihavetowriteitdownnowohwaititjustturnedintotenpages" kind of people! lol.

so, is anyone else in our region writing Fantasy? I'm thinking my novel is going to be about Paranormal Romance, I've had an idea cooking for about two weeks now and can't wait to start!

Teach me to stay away from the Forums for a day!!

Hey, Sylista. Nice to meet you. Delighted to have you with us. Hope to meet you in person.

I adore paranormal romance. I can't wait to hear about your book.

I myself write Women's Fiction, not fantasy, but it doesn't seem to matter much what genre we write. We can still be supportive and learn a lot from each other.

Whoo hoo! Grab the saddle, here we go!

I fancy myself as a writer of literary fiction, but if you read my post under the novel planning thread, you might wonder how I could possibly have such an idea. I want to try my hand at comedy this time, but we'll see. I tend to become very morose when I sit quietly by myself in front of a keyboard for too long at a time, which doesn't lend itself well to comedy. But, like I say, we'll see.