Newbies aren't the only ones who need help. I dunno about any of you, but I'm not feeling terribly optimistic about this year's NaNoWriMo. For everyone who feels similar to me, but isn't necessarily a newbie, come here to find a match to help you get through this year. This follows the same format as Adopt a Newbie, so you should post:
- Age
- Location
- Genre
- A little bit about your novel (Although, naturally, some pessimists may have the root of their pessimism in their lack of an idea, in which case you don't need to fill this out).
Don't, don't, DON'T post your e-mail here. Your adopter should contact you via NaNo Mail.
So, I'll go first:
I'm Aaron, I'm 16 years old, and I don't have a clue what I'm going to write about this year. Among other ideas, I've had sci-fi elves (elves that are aliens, it's kind of a long story), magical pirates (a thinly veiled knock-off of the Pirates of the Caribbean setting), and real-world superheroes (although I used that last year so I'm not inclined to use it again). Most recently, I've come up with the idea for a murder mystery from the perspective of the murderer; I doubt that's original, but I've been watching Castle recently and it got me inspired.
Good luck finding an adopter!
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2008 - jonathan dark: a personal blog
2009 - Dirk Maverick and the Sky Pirates of Atlantis
21,054 / 50,000
oct. 1, 2009 - 23 00
Age: 18
Location: New York (upstate)
Genre: Sci-fi/Fantasty/Adeventure
I'm Becca (waves) and this is my third NaNo, but first NaNo that I can't fall back on hard facts with. I am freaking out overthe smallest of world-building and I seriously don't know if my ideas are brilliant or corny. My novel takes place in England, and I needs loads of help with just the setting alone. It involces a group of people helping to stop an uprising from a political party, in a world where the "Spirit" helps to control man and object. Thanks!
----------1,336 / 50,000
oct. 4, 2009 - 02 25
[EDIT - Emerald-Ekohs longer up for adoption. She's been kidnapped by Lolita Grey and is not allowed to be adopted by anyone else.]
----------73,401 / 50,000
oct. 2, 2009 - 01 52
I'm Anity, thirteen, from Pittsburgh, PA, USA. I write dark fantasy; I have multiple ideas for this year, and I can inform you about what I'm doing once *I've* decided. Mostly, I need someone to nag me; if everyone I know will be sympathetic about me quitting NaNoWriMo, I'll do it, so I need someone to annoy me about writing every day, the full amount, whether I want to or not. Please?
----------It made sense in my head, I swear.
2008: Won, at expense of actually having a plot
28,468 / 50,000
oct. 2, 2009 - 06 42
I'm Becka, 17, from London. I'm writing about the future... though its more like the past. And theres an evil government. And a baby sister. And rebels! And, erm, sort of a plot, buried somewhere underneath it all. Somewhere. And I need someone who will kick me, and be generally horrible, because if I get sympathy I'll just wallow. Thanks :)
----------31,550 / 50,000
oct. 2, 2009 - 11 23
Sounds like a great idea for a thread! Would you like it stickying so it's always one of the top threads?
----------BFS goals - http://www.nanowrimo.org/eng/node/1075131
408 / 50,000
oct. 2, 2009 - 12 02
Age: 19
Location: Beaver Falls, PA
Genre: Great question. I don't even know what I'm writing yet.
A little bit about your novel: Also a fantastic question. I'll tell you when I know more :)
----------And then, one not-so-very special day, I went to my typewriter, I sat down, and I wrote our story. A story about a time, a story about a place, a story about the people. But above all things, a story about love. A love that will live forever. The End.
40,337 / 50,000
oct. 2, 2009 - 16 47
Oh, that's shiny. I would love that. We need to get help to all the pessimists out there, kind of like a support group. "Hi, my name is Aaron, and I am a pessimist" and all that jazz.
Anyway, anyone had any luck in finding an adopter? I've already been contacted, and I'm about to get back to them in a few minutes. Feeling more optimistic already!
----------2008 - jonathan dark: a personal blog
2009 - Dirk Maverick and the Sky Pirates of Atlantis
50,677 / 50,000
oct. 2, 2009 - 17 08
I'm excited to start because I have all these great ideas and this novel should be easy because it's the same characters from last year so I still have my outline and I'm just so looking foward to writing my first word...except that I know I won't feel the same rush when I actually do type. Does that count?
Age: 19
----------Location: Maybe later
Genre: Oh, this should be interesting. It's probably a fantasy, but it doesn't fit under any of the true fantasy categories. Parts of it (if I write it well enough) could be horror, but the whole thing isn't about trying to make you all creeped out. It's more like supernatural, but I'm pretty sure that isn't a current genre/subgenre. It should be, because then there could be so many branches of it, but there you go.
About my novel: Long story (really, really) short, it should be about a half human/half demon who is a natural leasher (someone who can send demons/other supernatural creatures back to their world) and the one demon she can't leash. Here is why I guess I could be considered a pessimist: the fact that pure demons should not exist and I know potential readers would have to suspend disbelief anyway, but I don't think they'd be able to buy pure demons poofing into existance so I'm not sure that angle would work too well. I want to write it that way, but I don't want to turn a lot of people off. I'm assuming that one day this will be published and that's my end goal (eventually), and I just want to write in a way that makes people at least continue reading this novel. Help please.
I don't have plot bunnies, I have plot demons. They're more demonic than the demons in my novels. Go figure.
36,659 / 50,000
oct. 2, 2009 - 20 39
I'm Maddy [or.. my pen name is Maddy], I'm 14, and this is my second NaNo.
I'm sitting here in sunny Cali. ^ ^
This year I'm trying out Romance, and my novel is basically about two people whom the fates proclaimed soul mates, then said that if the mmc ever lays a hand on the fmc [even casual touch, like holding hands] then the mmc will lose the fmc, forever. period.
I'm posting this only because I'm in the pessimist frame of mind at the moment, but tomorrow I might be totally optimistic about NaNo. Who knows? I think it has something to do with the moon. Huh. Who knows?
Anyways, hi! How's life, everyone?
..Did I just seriously write "Who knows?" once in the same paragraph?
Haha, that reminds me of this guy at my school. Seriously, every time I talk to him, I start by saying "Hey, I was wondering..." And break off the conversation by saying "Sorry," [apparently because I sub-consciously feel like I'm boring him to death by talking to him... ?] Woah, that was off topic.
----------"Elaine, Elaine, guess what?! I'm not a Brewster, I'm a BASTARD!"
-- Arsenic and Old Lace
31,550 / 50,000
oct. 3, 2009 - 01 35
And you have a quote from [i]Arsenic and Old Lace[/i] in your sig - nice taste. Can't tell if it's because of the BASTARD bit or because you like the film, but as a Cary Grant nut, I approve of any quotage from his films :D
----------BFS goals - http://www.nanowrimo.org/eng/node/1075131
40,042 / 50,000
oct. 3, 2009 - 13 19
I'm Katie, I'm thirteen and this is my second NaNo, and my novel is the worst thing in existence. It's about this girl Arielle who has an older sister who is a famous singer, and she gave the family all their money, but then for whatever reason she stops bothering to give it to them so now the family is broke, and Arielle has to be taken out of her private stage school and go to the local public school... and that's as far as I've got. I don't have a clue where to take it. Ideas???
----------NaNoWriMo '08 :: Discovering Rachel :: WON :: 50259
Screnzy '09 :: Confusion & Chances :: WON :: 100 pages
NaNoWriMo '09 :: Knowing Arielle Collman :: Halfway there! =)
Script Frenzy '10 :: Green(?)
5,480 / 50,000
oct. 3, 2009 - 13 30
I'm Evie, I'm 16 and I'm from Utah. I've got a fair arsenal of good ideas floating around in my cranium. My novel is going to be fantasy, with probably some real world locations and some made up ones. My main character is a woman in her mid twenties who, (against her ever so stubborn will) gets pulled into a world domination plot after venturing into the market place to watch some Gypsies. (I never said originality was my strong point, but there are only 7 original stories so I'm safe.) My main problem is *hides face for shame* procrastination. I loose my will to continue and I need a person who is willing to gun me down with nanomails reminding me that I have to get up and write. Thanks Muchly!
----------You can't think some things if you don't know the right words!
1,056 / 50,000
oct. 3, 2009 - 23 55
Age: 16
Location: West Mids, UK
Genre: Haven't decided yet. XP
So, I'm Hannah, this is my 4th attempt at this, and I'm not particularly optimistic because I failed miserably the past three times. Plus I have no concrete ideas yet. Someone to kick me up the arse and/or bounce ideas off would be wonderful. Adopt me?
4,615 / 50,000
oct. 4, 2009 - 10 02
Age: 19
Location: Minnesota
I have a couple novel ideas I'm tossing around...which, truthfully, is part of my problem. I don't know which I want to go with. They both sound awesome in my head, but when I try to explain them they sound stupid.
Also, I'm just not a very optimistic person about ANYTHING. I'm hoping to break that this year. I just have to keep reminding myself that it's not about the quality, nor even the quantity. It's about having fun.
----------NaNo '07 - 54,711/50,000
NaNo '08 - 0/50,000
NaNo '09 - 0/50,000
8,000 / 50,000
oct. 4, 2009 - 12 53
Age: 17, but I'll be 18 when NaNo starts
Location: Kalamazoo, MI
Genre: Fantasy
I have a vague idea for my novel, based on a recurring dream I've had. I participated and won the last two years, but I'm not so sure about this year. I just started college and I'm really really busy. I guess we'll see.
----------NaNo '09: Jabberwocky: The Story Behind the Poem
Caffeine Consumed: 8 Pepsis, 4 cups of coffee
Chocolates Consumed: 10
Homework Assignments Ignored: 0
Hours Slept Last Night: unknown
Characters: 5
Deaths: 0
15,749 / 50,000
oct. 4, 2009 - 16 16
Age:15, though I'll be 16 before NaNo is over!
Location: Washington state
Genre:YA Fantasy
Well, I've tried explaining my novel before, and it just keeps getting harder and harder.
Let's see...it takes place during this time period (2009/10), and starts with my MC, Cassian, discovering a letter. This letter was written by a girl named Tara not too long before he discovers it, and it basically shares this gigantic revelation about how there are two warring factions in the world (The Zedists and the Masked), and how they are both trying to find the magic.
The magic is the hardest part to explain. It's like...well, it came about during the Salem Witch Trials, which weren't as much of a hoax as people believe. History was rewritten by the two groups in order to hide the fact that magic exists. At the end of the trials the magic was hidden (I need to figure out how), and even centuries later the two groups are fighting to find it.
Cassian is drawn into this war thanks to Tara, and he has to evade the Zedists (bad people), while trying to help Tara and the rest of the Masked.
1,259 / 50,000
oct. 5, 2009 - 00 09
Age- 20
Location- PA
Genre- Ha
A little bit about your novel- It will be a novel, and as such, will have words. A bunch of words. 50,000 even, if I can possibly manage it. I haven't won yet in the 4 (5, 6 maybe?) years I've done nano.
34,130 / 50,000
oct. 5, 2009 - 10 37
Hi there,
----------this is me, Federkiel. I´m 21 and living in Germany.
This is my first NaNoWriMo and I plan to write Romance. The story takes place in a world and time similar to the ancient world where a woman who is part of a resistence movement and a man who is part of the government falls in love. They have to struggle with themselves, with each other and with their environment.
I would appreciate support and motivation for I´m not sure if I´m able to write that much next to my internship.
But I will do my very best!
35,227 / 50,000
oct. 5, 2009 - 12 29
Hi all.
Age - so close to 18!
Location - Pennsylvania- USA
Genre - Something like lit fic, only not. Wait, i dont know.
Eli was born mute. One day, he clearly spouts out a sentence of impending doom- and it happens! Everything that he says turns out to be true, but that isnt great for Eli and some of the villagers. He keeps predicting misfortune, so they deem him and dark oracle and banish him from the town. He travels some kind of random journey and then dies or commits suicide. Yeah.... plot happens? (Set in mid to late 1800s in North America)
35,090 / 50,000
oct. 6, 2009 - 07 32
Age - 24
Location - UK
Genre - Fantasy / YA
A little bit about your novel - I have a character and a genre, and that is about all so far.
I am a pessimist in that I have tried NaNo four times already and not won it yet! I need some words of encouragement, as this will be the last time I try (for a while at least - I'm going backpacking next summer for an undetermined amount of time). Help?
----------13,189 / 50,000
oct. 6, 2009 - 08 50
The title of this thread made me crack a smile which is hard to do when I'm at work!
AGE: 31 (am I too old to be adopted?? ;-) )
LOCATION: Long Island, NY
GENRE: Not a clue. I know that I want the story to be about a woman who wakes up with amnesia, but I have no idea what happened to give it to her in the first place! I need help!!!!!
25,200 / 50,000
oct. 6, 2009 - 10 37
Hi, I'm Jex, 18 years of age, and from Canada.
I have sort of an outline of what I want to write. I've gotten back into Fullmetal Alchemist, and I totally want to do something based on that. The problem being is that if I get my idea this year, it's almost been CURSED to fail. So, naturally, I've been completely pessimistic.
(This is my fourth NaNo, and I have not won one at all. D8)
----------9,303 / 50,000
oct. 6, 2009 - 11 22
Heylo!
I'm 22 (though I will be recovering from my 23rd as NaNo dawns), and I live in Ohio.
My novel this year is fantasy because magic is in it. It's sort of a post-apocalyptic thing, but the apocalypse hit in the midst of my fantasy world with the tech of the late medieval/early Renaissance period. Oh, and magic. >.>;;
This is my fifth year participating. I haven't won yet.
----------2009-- Eden Wasteland
MCs: 5-ish
MCs with severe mental issues: 4-ish
36,926 / 50,000
oct. 6, 2009 - 12 16
Hey. I'm Tari, and I'm in my mid-teens (I'm too paranoid to give my specific age ;} ) I live in Southern Canada. I'm writing a fantasy story, like usual, but I have approximately 0 ideas for plot. I just need a good kick in the pants every day to just write. Thanks.
----------~Tari~
36,193 / 50,000
oct. 6, 2009 - 19 35
I'm Brechtje, or just Bre. I live in western Washington, in the United States. This is my second NaNoWriMo.
I'm doing a modern fantasy idea. I don't really have a solid plot outside the concept yet.
I keep having panic attacks about this, and life in general, even though I won last year, and feel like I should be fine.
----------2008 - WINNER - On Wings On Fate - High fantasy about a girl, a stork, and some dragons.
2009 - IN PROGRESS - Little Things Like That - Modern fantasy about magic and politics.
38,020 / 50,000
nov. 6, 2009 - 00 17
[Edited: Bella Mortis has been adopted by a loving, kind NaNo'er named Sibyl, who is already handing out cookies and motivation as we speak.]
25,900 / 50,000
nov. 3, 2009 - 09 23
Age-15
Location-England
Genre-Fantasy
A little bit about your novel- An assassin made a deal with Death after he died during a mission. He would never die but in return he must go back to being an assassin when it was needed of him. Now, during the end of the world, he needs to fufill his side of the debt. For purely selfish reasons (who wants to be stuck on a barren wasteland for the rest of eternity?) he does his best to avoid killing his targets which are the few people that can stop the Apocalypse.
What with the amount of coursework I have that needs to be completed by Christmas, parents who can't leave me be and my birthday, I'm not feeling so hopeful.
(Edit-been adopted now!)
----------11,588 / 50,000
oct. 8, 2009 - 14 03
Age-13
Location-Northeast USA
Genre- that's really a good question
Okay, okay, I KNOW I'm pretty much breaking NaNo rules here, but I'm using NaNo to continue something I started over the summer. Yes, I know, it goes against tradition, but I think I see real potential in this story and I'm determined to finish it. Now that I've been in this for three months, however, I'm starting to feel a bit... doubtful. It started as sci-fi - an evil organization in a futuristic society ravaging the world with a programmable drug. In all my 30K, I still haven't gotten to the really good stuff. Worse, the story's starting to turn into a romance. I haven't written in four days and I'm determined to finish this thing by Christmas. You could say i'm a little pessimistic.
----------The cake is a lie.
9,784 / 50,000
oct. 8, 2009 - 16 49
So, uh, I'm Tom, I'm 19 and writing this from an undisclosed location somewhere in central Florida. For now, I've been knocking around with some sort of fantasy concoction that takes place in a modern-day analogous setting involving real-world superheroes, an odd young man with the ability to affect people's perceptions, and the Greek god of dreams, Morpheus.
----------Life is like a box of chocolates.
Expensive and devoured by others.
12,505 / 50,000
oct. 8, 2009 - 16 56
Michelle
Age: 20
Location: Kansas
genre: Young Adult
I have ideas about a couple of my characters. but have not much plot wise. I know my FMC will be homeschooled and possibly moving to a new state.
Last year I ran out of steam almost as soon as I started. I had spent a long time outlining and had school to deal with.
Lately I have been unmotivated and am worried I will just not feel like writing when Novemember comes. I need someone to keep me on my toes and encourage me to keep going, even when I am down.
----------"The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid."
-Jane Austen