Where y'all from?

I'm originally from Kansas, moved to Texas in 1998, live in suburb of Dallas/Ft. Worth, and will NOT be moving anyplace else. Texas IS a "whole 'nother country" and I love it here!!!

2004: Daniel In The Lion's Den (mystery/suspense)
2005: Two Women And A Girl: EGG, MAT, and MSG (mystery/suspense)
2007: Finding Emma Jane (fictionalized memoir)
2009: Foreplay (mystery/suspense)

Malaysia

Born in Malaysia, went to school in England (Norwich) for three years, followed by grad school in the States (San Diego) for a year. Returned to Malaysia after 4 years away, back to the same neighbourhood where I was born, but moved out of neighbourhood less than a year later.

But still in Malaysia.

Chet's NaNoWriMo Experience (updated)

I'm a native San Francisco girl, dragged away to grow up in Barstow, CA (yeah ... if you know Barstow, it's because you drove thru there once, and it was either the hottest or windiest/sand-blowingest/or both day you'd ever experienced!), escaped to San Diego, then escaped to the wilds of British Columbia, then escaped to the Seattle area, wherefrom I long to escape to ...... 8-) I think my autobiography will be titled "The Escape Artist"!

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Glynes
In space, no one can hear the tupperware burp

2009 - The Gloxia Cache - Won, but far, far from finished
2008 - The Shadows of Duluth - Won
2007 - Bringing the Blues to Gloxia XII - Won

I am orinally from England, came to Australia in 1972 and settled in Brisbane, Queensland. After a few years moved to a bush area that I loved but 7 years ago moved to Bundaberg and here I shall stay.

www.knittedlacedesigns.net
http://Valerie41.etsy.com

I'm from a little town called Port Glasgow, about 20 miles from Glasgow, which is in Scotland, then yo-yo'd back & forth between Scotland and England until we finally left Scotland for New York when I was 5. That only lasted 18 months then my parents upped sticks again and came back to England.

There we stayed for about 40 years, although we still managed to move house a few times before I left home, but 4 years ago the wander lust bug returned and we moved to Spain. Stayed there for three years then moved back to Scotland only 20 miles from where I started off :-)

Finished moving? Nope. We're spending this weekend house hunting down in the Midlands, the area of England my parents thought good enough to move us to all those years ago. Maybe they knew more than I gave them credit for!

Don't tell me the sky's the limit when there are footprints on the moon!

I'm originally from a small town in the Haarlemmermeer polder (a "polder" is land reclaimed from water), southwest of Amsterdam, Netherlands. When I was 2 years old my family moved to Haarlem, a city about 12 miles west of Amsterdam, where I have been living most of my life.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haarlem

2008: Lapis Lazuli (historical fiction) - WON! (57K)
2009: Vicit Vim Virtus (historical fiction) - WON! (51K)

Started out in Western Massachusetts, went all over creation and back in the service, then back to Mass. I now live in Amherst, a small college town with 5 colleges and little else noteworthy, about 20 miles from where I was born. And I suspect this is where I'll stay, at least until that first million rolls in. I shall not hold my breath...

Originally from the mountainous region of East Tennessee, moved to Winston-Salem, North Carolina, then Charlotte NC, Aiken SC and back to Charlotte where we've been for the last 18 years. Can't seem to leave the South Eastern United States.

Step 1:Remove cat from computer
Step 2:Remove cat from computer
Step 3: Remove cat from computer
Step 4:Just give it up already

Originally from New Orleans; have bounced around from there to several spots in the midwest, Florida, Maryland and now the Chicago area. Most of my life's been in the midwest, although I'd love to be near a coast again.

No plans to move before retirement, and no idea where I'd go from here anyway.

Kat

“It only has to be written. It doesn’t have to be perfect.” - Elizabeth Bear

Hey there, KAT!!!! ***Mermaid waves & blows kisses***

Great to see you here......

Well, I've moved 8 times in 10 years! 0_o (Long story). But currently, FOR NOW, back in the Modesto area.

~Mer

~Mer
ML-Modesto Region, CA
Co-moderator: NaNo Rebels thread
"I'm Gonna Wave my nerd Flag High"
"Put 'em up! Put 'em uuuup!!"

Born in Mobile Alabama and grew up on the Gulf Coast. Married at 17 and became an Army wife. Lived in Germany and Italy, Florida, N. & S. Carolina, and ended up in Indiana. We planned on going home after we retired but life tends to stack the deck at times. He died Jan 29 and so I guess I'm stuck here. He's only two blocks from home and I don't think I could leave him here alone.

Dixiegirl A Dixie Girl's Place
"May you be captured by a dozen ideas that you quickly convert to a good story."
2006: Untitled
2007: Shakedown - Winner
2008:The End of Winter - Winner

(((((Dixie)))))

Holding you close, sweetie......

~Mer

~Mer
ML-Modesto Region, CA
Co-moderator: NaNo Rebels thread
"I'm Gonna Wave my nerd Flag High"
"Put 'em up! Put 'em uuuup!!"

I'm glad whoever started this post was literate enough to spell "y'all" correctly. I get so tired of seeing it spelled "ya'll." Almost as much as I hate hearing it mispronounced "yew awl."

I'm from a small town in middle Georgia (US)--Barnesville, about 1 hour south of Atlanta. Have lived in Atlanta (college, Georgia Tech), Tennessee, Colorado, California (only for a summer), Florida, then back home to GA. Have family around the US in Georgia, North Carolina, Washington (State), and Washington, D.C.

I'm a first-time NaNo and I'm really PUMPED about doing my first novel. I think the NaNo method is absolutely brilliant, as crazy and wrong (unconventional) as it seems. I feel so much freedom that I don't have to finish with a polished story, or even start with much of a plan. Just hop in the car, start the motor, and put the pedal to the metal--and never look back.

I'd especially enjoy corresponding with writers from outside the US, but my fellow Americans are just as welcome. Who knows what kind of friendships we might forge during this insane event?

Kelly Carter

Kelly Carter
2009 first-time NaNo
50k in 30 or DIE !!!

I'm in North Carolina, near but not in Charlotte. I'm glad to see other older writers. I plan for this to be my year. I'm tired of working! How about you? Let's hear from some additional "seniors" with a youthful enthusiasm for the written word - written by us!

BJ (Run4daroses)

Kelly, it IS neat. You learn plenty about writing, pacing yourself, etc., but what you learn the most about is you! It's really pretty cool. When you complete that first novel and see that your count makes you a winner, there's nothing like it. My writing continues to get sharper and more focused by doing this and I hope this is the year I make my big sale. Good luck to you. You will find the nano crowd to be composed of some very nice, very encouraging people. There are a few exceptions out there, but not many. We're all here for the same thing.

BJ (Run4DaRoses)

Born in West Texas, have lived in Dallas; Midland (Texas); Golden, Colorado; San Pablo/Richmond/Berkeley, California; Houston, Texas; Nashville, Tennessee; Jackson, Mississippi (16 years!); Ogden, Utah.

Born in Greensboro, North Carolina, spent several years in West Virginia, then came to the Nashville Tennessee area when I was nine, where I've been ever since.

Wow, we have quite a diverse group here! Adding my hugs to Dixiegirl as a fellow Alabamian. I was born in Hawaii and have lived in Washington, DC, Texas, Louisiana, Utah, and now in Montgomery, Alabama after being in Birmingham for eleven years. Eventually I'd like to get back out west. The mountains are peace to me.

Originally from New Jersey, went to school in Indiana, lived in Texas (DFW 14 yrs, Midland, 7 yrs), Indonesia 2 years, and now in Alaska, by far my favorite place so far!

Learned about this novel writing event when I was in Dallas this past summer visiting friends and family and am looking forward to giving this a shot!

Ellen

kellycarter, thank you. Both grandparents were from the south.

I'll add that I lived in Ohio for a year between times in Chicago. My ex (then-husband) was not too skilled at keeping jobs, so we jumped around a lot. In that year, we lived in three places in Ohio. I moved around a lot, even if it was in the same neighborhood, until recently. I spent five years in a rented condo, and then moved a mile away to the house I live in now.

2005 In Back of the North Wind WINNER!
2006 Leopard's Paw WINNER!
2007 The Old Straight Track (finished) WINNER!
2008 The Other Side of the Wall (finished) WINNER!
2009 Dark Inheritance

Hi Everybody! I started out in Southern Calif. From there to Utah, Wash DC. Then went "South" in the 60's to Mississippi. Then Indiana, back to D.C. for a few years, and finally back to California - this time the mountains near the Oregon border, which I loved. Then a quest took me to interior Alaska for 8 years or so, which I also loved. Then back to the mountains in No Cal. It became home until a toxic chemical spill drove me away to the clear air of the New Mexico desert for about 10 years. Two years ago I moved from there to Salem, Oregon where I have relatives. I enjoy the terrain, the greenery, and even the rain. Sometimes I like my relatives. Sometimes they like me. I' glad they are here, and I am too.

Bottom line: I am from Salem, Oregon (now)

I really sound ancient. Anybody else out there over 65?

Nora~

fuziblu

I've always lived in Canada, although I've been fortunate enough to have seen a small chunk of the world.

Born in Saskatchewan, I spent my childhood in Canada's Far North... father was a bush pilot, and I grew up with the Northern Lights, the Native culture, dogsled travel, deep dark forests, and 'cat' trips across the immense lake (546 square miles, or 1414 sq km). Moved to Montreal where I spent several years, and finally to Ottawa (Canada's capital).

Having taken early retirement this year, I am now looking to change location so I can escape noisy city life and politics... I hope to find some place serene and peaceful in either the countryside or a small town in Ontario or the Maritimes. Being surrounded by nature gets my creative juices flowing, and I now have the time to devote to writing whenever I want and indulging in my other passion, photography.

Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.

Hi, everybody.

I was born and grew up in central Georgia, spend my most of teenage years in St. Simons Island, Ga., then married and moved to Miami, Fla., where I lived for almost 20 years. I've lived in Boca Raton, Fla., for 6 years. This is my second NaNoWriMo.

Liz

Born in Scotland (Edinburgh) but due to miliary dad and husband (AF) I have lived in England, Texas, Nebraska, Maine, WVa, NC (most of YA life), then Guam, CA and now back and settled in NC again.

Glad to hear someone is from Chicago. My MC's will spend some time there and I have only done little vacations there.

The Netherlands!

I was born in the UK (Worcester, England) moved around the UK a fair bit then at the age of 48 I moved to the Republic of Ireland, and wish I'd done it sooner. I live out in the wilds of County Longford - no, I'd never heard of it either until I moved here - with no near neighbours and three mad Dalmatians.

I should have taken the blue pill

I live in Minnesota, but don't really claim it as home. I've lived many places, but my heart is in Boston.

Born in NYC. Moved to Miami, Fl midway through growing up. After college, I lived around Raleigh, NC for about 25 years. Moved to Nashville, TN 2 years ago, but I still think of myself as North Carolinian.

Not really planning to move. It's such a pain in the arse.

Winner 2005: The Tribe of Palmetto Bay
Winner 2006: The Blue Light
Winner 2007: Fido
Winner 2008: Disappearance
Winner 2009: Comp Psi

http://cookingback2reality.blogspot.com/

Born in Michigan, grew up in Illinois, Arizona, Texas, Missouri and New Mexico. Currently live in Alaska. We have a very diverse group for this forum; good to hear what others have to say.

John Grisham once said he was thinking about giving up writing as it was "too easy." I'd bet 99.9% of all writers wanted to bitch-slap him at that point.

Welcome Moose !!! (teehee--WHY have I always wanted to say that???)

Glad you found us! Lots of good folks & good vibes in this 50's group. Stay tuned to this thread, 'kay? Just got home from a cruise to Alaska--our second. What a gorgeous place!

~Mer
ML-Modesto Region, CA
Co-moderator: NaNo Rebels thread
"I'm Gonna Wave my nerd Flag High"
"Put 'em up! Put 'em uuuup!!"