This thread is big on long-term commitments (Many people return visit 3+ years in a row). We just haven't met the right novel yet.
So take a minute to discuss your novel, your singlehood, and we'll see where October and November take us.
Point of Order: This is not a place to post your singles advertisement. Try Chemistry.com, if you're not freaked out by the old guy in the television ads.
I'm Brian.
Age: 26.
Relationship status: Single.
This Year's Disaster:
Story about a woman dying of cancer who gets defrauded out of $2 million by a phony doctor, and the staff of the local newspaper who discover the fraud before she and her family do. So, lit fiction.
I've already started and hope to have 40,000 words by Nov. 1, and will add an additional 50,000 to finish the first draft way earlier than normal.
Cheers,
B.
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Sasquatch hunting should never be undertaken professionally.
0 / 50,000
oct. 2, 2009 - 04 29
Hello single folk!
----------31
Connecticut
A work in progress....
Jason G.
"style, like sheer silk, too often hides eczema."
A. Camus - The Fall
34,069 / 50,000
oct. 2, 2009 - 06 53
Stats:
24, female, single
Novel:
A woman begins having strange dreams after her cousin's murder case is reopened 10 years after the fact. She can't ever remember the entire dream and begins to go a little crazy trying. Whodunit...still to be determined.
54,196 / 50,000
oct. 2, 2009 - 07 54
I'm Whitney.
Age: 25
Relationship Status: Single
This year's story:
In Regency England a girl escapes from an unwanted marriage to living with a pair of Rakes. Who also happen to be undead.
Blah. Kind of a lame summary, but I'm still working it out in my head.
----------Whitney
Kennesaw ML
Blog Here
27,856 / 50,000
oct. 2, 2009 - 08 29
*waves*
I'm one of those that Brian was talking about. Third year here. But I don't know... I might be going to hang out in the corner though--stuff might happen, bu I don't want to jinx it.
Um, yeah.
No bloody clue what I'm writing about this year, as usual. :)
*sets bottle of good tequila on the table and pours a shot*
Cheers.
----------You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light.
~Ed Abbey
27,826 / 50,000
oct. 2, 2009 - 09 05
Robyn, 19, single.
My novel is going to cover the formation and rising fame of a band that consists of fictional versions of myself and my friends. There will be many arguments and gratuitous love triangles.
----------[Knitting the Write Stuff]
[Twitter]
Title: The Maxima Gamers
43,435 / 50,000
oct. 2, 2009 - 09 05
I'm Brianna, but I'm pretty sure that's irrelevant.
Age: 21
Relationship Status: Still Single.
Novel Idea I've been considering for this year: an alien comes to the planet and posees about a teenage girl to finish her education by learning about the human race and deciding if they're a threat to more intelligent life forms . Or, more likely, something that is entirely not like this at all. I've also been considering rewriting my serial killer novel from last year, the sequel to the novel I did 2 years ago, or something that is entirely unlike all of these things.
Okay...I'm done talking now.
----------brianna, everyone, even characters, have problems.
but mine seem to have a lot.
at least yours aren't gruesome, destructive, or morbid.
...sometimes they are...
56,797 / 50,000
oct. 2, 2009 - 13 52
Name: Matt.
Age: 27
Status: Not looking.
I have no idea what I am going to write for NaNo, but I'm currently working on something else that I hope to finish before the end of October lest I actually abandon it and never return. It's called "That Joke Isn't Funny Any More", it's about a man and his missing daughter. I'm putting it on my website chapter by chapter. You can find it at http://ilovemattfishwick.com (because nobody else does)
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If you like an anti-climax you'll love: http://ilovemattfishwick.com or maybe you won't.
27,856 / 50,000
oct. 2, 2009 - 14 06
*waves at matt*
Hi.
----------You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light.
~Ed Abbey
56,797 / 50,000
oct. 2, 2009 - 14 09
Hi.
Yo b, 's up?
65,313 / 50,000
oct. 2, 2009 - 14 11
Once again, I find myself here, but this year under a different name. I promise it has nothing to do with evading the law.
I'm Christin, or Kiki, if you prefer. I'm told it's easier to yell.
Age: 29
Relationship Status: Single. It's for the best.
This year's hair puller:
A young woman who can see the soul bonds between people, finds herself bound to a serial killer. It's a horror/paranormal/comedy. Trust me, I know what I'm doing. Mostly.
I'll probably comment a few times here and then once November comes, I'll disappear. 'Cause that's how I roll.
----------The writer formerly known as feloniousfeline.
2009:A Tale of Two Lady Killers
2008 Winner:The Spinning Room
2007 Loser: Deadhouse
2006 Winner: Five from Ipswitch
2005 Loser: In the Dark
2004 Loser:
80,390 / 50,000
oct. 2, 2009 - 17 04
Here I am again, third year in a row, though I rather fell off the edge of forumhood last year in the middle of job/friend/family/noveling madness.
But anyway, I'm Maisie, or Midge (I answer to both), 21, and single, of course. The novel for this year is a fantasy/romance, and the FMC is an aristocrat and a magician in a world where being a magician is about as exciting as being a plumber. I don't know much of the plot aside from that, mostly I know the characters first.
It's great to see everyone!
----------________________
Just keep swimming!
27,856 / 50,000
oct. 2, 2009 - 18 29
Hi.
Yo b, 's up?
's good, fish, what about you?... hey Midge, too...
So yeah...
forgot to mention--I'm theanab
----------You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light.
~Ed Abbey
6,133 / 50,000
oct. 2, 2009 - 20 48
Hi :) I'm Shawna
Age: 34
Relationship Status: Single.
My Novel??? I haven't a clue. I'll start thinking about it next week. Or the week after that. Else I'll just start writing Nov. 1st and see what happens.
----------Nothing interferes with my concentration. You could put on an orgy in my office and I wouldn’t look up. Well, maybe once.
- Isaac Asimov
35,801 / 50,000
oct. 2, 2009 - 21 45
I'm Sheldon
Age: 31
Status: Single (not really looking, but not opposed; mostly it's just not a priority)
This year's novel is literary fiction in the vein of "1984." "Payroll" is about a world where corporations have staged a hostile takeover of the government. Now, at an undisclosed time in the near future, well after the takeover, society is a for-profit enterprise. The MC (I haven't settled on a name, but I'm leaning towards Officer Alonso Burns), an officer in Human Resources who now act as the police, is sent to investigate the apparent suicide of high-level VP. But something doesn't fit the picture, and what Alonso will uncover will threaten the very society that he's paid to uphold.
I should be working more on the outline and character profiles, but unfortunately I came down with the flu right when the NaNo site came back up. I'll have to push forward when I'm no longer having fever-induced hallucinations.
----------Follow me:
[Blog] [Goodreads] [Facebook] [Twitter]
22,687 / 50,000
oct. 2, 2009 - 22 20
Female
Turning 23 at the end of October
I think I'll decide what to write about as I go. It seems to work better for me that way.
5,200 / 50,000
oct. 3, 2009 - 00 11
Female
Age: 37
Status: Single
This year's trainwreck is about a socialite who runs away the night before her wedding. Nobody realizes she's gone missing until the morning of and when they find out that she's gone all kinds of chaos ensues.
63,872 / 50,000
oct. 3, 2009 - 07 35
I'm Stef.
Age: 23 in 17 days.
Relationship Status: I prefer to window-shop.
The Novel: A college student encounters a dragon in downtown Toronto on his way home from school one late October evening. After stealing a scale from it, he attracts it back to his apartment and discovers it's a shapeshifter, it's lost, and it's being hunted by a mage. Now he and his best friend are on the run with the dragon, trying to stay one step ahead of the hunter until they can figure out a way to get the dragon home.
----------0 / 50,000
oct. 3, 2009 - 08 58
I'm Passion.
Age: 15 years 9 months and 30 days
Relationship Status: Complicated
~*~
I don't know what I'm gonna do about my nano this year. It's the same fudging story as last year (cutting back on cussing) I honestly don't know what I'm gonna do.
----------"In every corner there is a crack, in every wall there is a hole, in every truth there is a lie, in every smile there is a sigh, in every person there is pain. And within that pain there is happiness. Pray that your happiness shines once more. Pray..." --
5,200 / 50,000
oct. 3, 2009 - 10 26
Age: 15 years 9 months and 30 days
Relationship Status: Complicated
~*~
I don't know what I'm gonna do about my nano this year. It's the same fudging story as last year (cutting back on cussing) I honestly don't know what I'm gonna do.
Hi Passion
How have you been doing?
0 / 50,000
oct. 3, 2009 - 12 55
Name: Ruex or Alexandra.
Age: 25
Status: Single and looking. Is terrible living in a small town, where your views and interests differ greatly from everyone else...
NaNo:
----------Once again, another novel for my on going supernatural/predinatural horror/action/fantasy series, Hunter's Prey. This year an Alternate Universe story, set in a small western town, centering around a pair of best friends, Saffron Azreal, short and tiny extremely feminine looking young man and a death elemental. and Matt 'Graves' Hogan, tall, muscular necromancer with blue hair and drives a hearse. Saffron hates his abilities of being a death elemental, and being able to take a life with just a touch if he so wants, knowing he must take lives, to continue to live himself. A former slave, people scare Saffron. The only person he's close to is, Graves, who's screw the world attitude allows Saffron to hide behind him. Being a necromancer and able to raise the dead, Graves and Saffron have a priceless connection between them. Completely loyal to each other, Graves is also very protective over Saffron. Which is no wonder, since Saffron is the oldest of the Trinity, a set of triplets who keep magic alive. Graves happens to be his guardian. Will go from being best friends to being lovers, despite certain events and characters threatening to tear them apart.
~Lil Dark Angel of Mine
8,985 / 50,000
oct. 3, 2009 - 13 04
Hi everyone!
24, female, single
November seems pretty far away at this point, but I'm sure it'll be here before we know it and I'll of course be completely underprepared to write 50k... so it goes each year :) I've won the past two years, so I'm hoping this year will be #3.
No idea what I'll be writing yet, but I tend to write mainstream/lit fic....crazy and/or interesting things that happen to everyday people. I might throw in a bit of action/adventure this year and see what happens.
I'm currently working on my second degree in nursing and have two jobs - one in an OR and one in a blood bank...insane amounts of work might have something to do with my single-ness ;)
Looking forward to writing with you all!
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Nano 2004: Untitled (2k) - Lost miserably
Nano 2006: New Westbridge (37,400) - Almost there!
Nano 2007: Winter in Woodbury (50,063) - Won!!
Nano 2008: Layers (50,070) - Won!!
Nano 2009: Untitled (8,060/50,000 so far....)
4,072 / 50,000
oct. 3, 2009 - 13 37
Hey, I'm Jeanne. Or Anne.
Age: 23.
Status: Single.
Novel: Set in 1825-1830 London... Yeah.
----------Jeanne Leigh
2005: Night Life
2006: Souillé
2007: It's A Secret
2008: Caden and Nichola (not actual title)
2009: o.o Title?
36,951 / 50,000
oct. 4, 2009 - 06 39
Emma, 20, single, and I'm as oblivious as you guys on my novel >.<
----------A Murder of Crows - A plot by Pieces
Characters killed: 15
Cups of Coffee drunk: 22
Cups of hot chocolate drunk: 35
Meals skipped: 4
Games of Mahjong played in procrastination: 54
Horror films watched whilst writing: 4
6,133 / 50,000
oct. 4, 2009 - 07 54
Age: 25
Status: Single and looking. Is terrible living in a small town, where your views and interests differ greatly from everyone else...
I know what you mean. I'm in a not-so-small town, but I feel like an odd-one-out... religiously, and even within the small religious community I still feel odd as my non-religious interests differ so much too. Plus, there are no single men of my religion in my city.
I love your novel idea :)
----------Nothing interferes with my concentration. You could put on an orgy in my office and I wouldn’t look up. Well, maybe once.
- Isaac Asimov
27,856 / 50,000
oct. 4, 2009 - 16 23
*looks around nervously*
Guys, I think I might be leaving the lounge. If what I think happened tonight really happened, I'm not single anymore.
We'll see tomorrow when i talk to the guy.
----------You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light.
~Ed Abbey
24,016 / 50,000
oct. 4, 2009 - 18 18
I think Brian and I are the only two left from the original group. Crazy.
I wasn't supposed to still be single this year, but I got an unexpected and unpleasant surprise over the summer. Still dealing with it. They say these things take time. I think I'm going to make him the villain of this year's novel. If I ever come up with a plot.
So, the stats:
I'm Karen.
I'm 32.
I live in California.
Recently re-singled.
I have yet to decide what to write this November. Whatever it is will be craptastic and I'll enjoy the hell out of writing it.
----------"This must be what going mad feels like."--Dr. Simon Tam, Firefly
26,513 / 50,000
oct. 5, 2009 - 01 22
Hello everybody!
I'm Katheryn. First year at NaNo.
Age:43.
Relationship status: Single, never married, no kids. Attempting to discern a possible vocation to consecrated virginity in the Catholic Church.
My novel-to-be:
In 1934, two ambitious young actors meet in Hollywood and marry 22 days later. She was a 23-year-old British dancer-singer who had come up the hard way through the chorus line; he was a 34-year-old French matinee idol who had attended the Sorbonne. Their friends thought that their marriage might last six months — two years at best. It ended up lasting for 44 years. Yet their happy marriage was to end in tragedy...
It's historical fiction — a biographical novel based on the marriage of Charles Boyer and Pat Paterson. (Do you think I would make up such a plot?) I've started a detailed plot outline, but will not actually start the novel till Nov.1. I intend to write at least 50,001 words of the novel in November, though I think that it will require 60,000-75.000 to complete. But as long as I can drag myself across the finish line with a partially finished draft of 50,001 words, I will be content.
----------27,856 / 50,000
oct. 5, 2009 - 07 07
*waves*
Guys, Sorry, but I'm leaving... or will be in ten minutes when we make it official.
Save me a seat, alright? II'll probably be back.
----------You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light.
~Ed Abbey
56,797 / 50,000
oct. 5, 2009 - 08 11
Guys, Sorry, but I'm leaving... or will be in ten minutes when we make it official.
Save me a seat, alright? II'll probably be back.
That's the spirit, b - Optimism!
Congratulations - I believe that is what one says in this sort of situation...
Adios.
8,985 / 50,000
oct. 5, 2009 - 11 00
Congrats, theanab! :)
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Nano 2004: Untitled (2k) - Lost miserably
Nano 2006: New Westbridge (37,400) - Almost there!
Nano 2007: Winter in Woodbury (50,063) - Won!!
Nano 2008: Layers (50,070) - Won!!
Nano 2009: Untitled (8,060/50,000 so far....)