What's everyone intending to write this time? Does anyone have a plan? Or are we all opening that file at midnight on the 1st and just making Stuff up?
Personally, I'm kind of considering maybe perhaps writing a sequel to last year's NaNo project.
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1,641 / 50,000
Okt 5, 2007 - 03 16
Well, it's my first time attempting NaNoWriMo, but I have a couple of vague plans in mind - I'm leaning towards writing an Anthology of interconnected Short Stories based around my City of Heroes/City of Villains characters. It has the benefit (to my mind, at least) of allowing me some flexibility if I hit a dead end to continue writing.
Then in December I can look at editing the Anthology into a novel :)
----------Take one part inspiration, one part too much gaming, and five parts insanity, and you might be getting pretty close...
60,177 / 50,000
Okt 6, 2007 - 03 30
This is my first time too attempting NaNo, and I'm hoping to reach 50K at least on a Fantasy/Romance. I heard about NaNo two months ago and I've been planning ever since using the snowflake method (the first couple of stages anyway), Holly Lisle's Character Clinic, and I found Cameron's Outline Helper an amazing tool. It made me think about the conflicts and how they unfold.
I started a novel four years ago (Fantasy genre) and it's not finished yet. I have seven different versions of it floating about on my computer and printouts stored in a box file. The NaNo piece I'm doing is the prequel to that. Haven't written anything in the fantasy-romance genre before, but it's been fun planning it so far! I'll see how it goes once it comes time to actually sit down and write it!
Two things for me to bear in mind in November:
----------1. NaNo is about having FUN
2. Personally challenging myself to turn off the internal editor, not re-read, not correct as I go, just letting the writing flow and not agonising over the words I use. (Reaching for a brown paper bag to breathe into...)
Years done NaNo: 2007
Years won NaNo: 2007
0 / 50,000
Okt 7, 2007 - 02 21
I've been planning for aaaaages now... I just can't wait for november!!
I did it last year (my boyfriend got me into it) and we both had so much fun! He and I are mostly fantasy writers (I did a more literary fiction one last year though) and swapping stories at the end of the month was great!
I have planned out half of my story though... I'm still not quite sure whats going to happen at the end. Oh well, I'll get some inspiration soon hopefully...
My title is going to be "Silver Gilded Eyes".
What're your comments on that?
50,022 / 50,000
Okt 7, 2007 - 05 57
I'll be writing the fifth Hal Spacejock book for Nano. I do have an outline I knocked up a couple of months back, and I'm looking forward to getting into it.
----------Simon Haynes, programmer of yWriter
Author of the Hal Spacejock series
Also on Myspace!
89,857 / 50,000
Okt 7, 2007 - 16 59
As was last yearl my month will be down to three weeks As we will be trapsising about again. I do have ideas for my story thought so I should be able to get a fair bit done.
My genre is historical romance with a twist.. There has to be at least one death by foul means, kiddnapping, attempted rape or all of the above. :P
So I might just scrape in like last year. fingers crossed.
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Just hand over the chocolate and no one gets hurt............
51,060 / 50,000
Okt 8, 2007 - 02 30
No plan, no time and NO CHANCE.
But, like the last couple of years, I'm trying anyway.
Hello to everyone from last year. ^_^
----------*headdsk*
kill me. Kill me now.
50,088 / 50,000
Okt 8, 2007 - 23 58
Hey everyone and welcome to the first timers! I hope to be around the forums a bit more this year.
Anyways, back in July I started my Book in a Year Project. The challenge was to plan, write, edit and submit a whole novel in one year. These last three and a bit months I have spent planning and I still am completing my outline. NaNo, December and January will see the beast written and then the next six months will be spent editing and looking for publishers, provided uni doesn't get in the way.
I'm hoping the whole novel will be around 80k and I'd like to do 60k this November, if I can even make it to 50k. I also have one and a half weeks of full time work in November. Not to mention finishing Year 12 (thank goodness I have no exams) and choosing subjects for Uni.
My story is a fantasy, as was last years, but this time it's more serious. And more extensively planned... provided I can finish the outline before the 1st.
----------Reinsforde School of Special Arts: The Harbinger
"This is some random school. Why on earth are they even asking me to attend? How do they even know I exist? Did I win some random lottery?" - Hannah, the MC
5/45 outlined scenes
1 bonus scenes
50,247 / 50,000
Okt 9, 2007 - 01 25
My novel this year is going to be the prequel to last years novel. It's fantasy based, with faeries and dragons. And possibly some other elements mixed in. I had an interesting character in last years novel that I might focus more on this year. Of course its 600 years earlier in time, so it may not be included at all, but I may be able to do something genealogically wise. Flesh that particular character out a bit more, and make her role (and ancestors roles) a little more important. She was raised by the dragons, but like I said, hoping to perhaps make it a more significant role. Who knows maybe humans or fae coupled with the dragons producing offspring, of which this young girl is a descended of.
----------My NaNo Blog
2005 § Red Rose Castle § 50,024
2006 § Solstice, Rose & Equinox § 51,628
2007 § The White Rose § 50,247
3,731 / 50,000
Okt 10, 2007 - 04 23
I am totally planned this year! Just for once! I have never written with an outline before, so I have no idea how well it will work.
I'm doing a film noir thingy, with Plot! And characters! Really!
50,918 / 50,000
Okt 10, 2007 - 06 53
No. An outline? A PLOT?! That is so prepared!
I'ma piecing together some characters, instruments, actions, scenery, dialogue. And a couple of the characters have names already, so that's the hard part done. Hopefully it'll be something fun and quirky with room for faux-profundity. I'm up for dares this year, too, if anyone has any. (Where's that girl with the list of dares? You here yet?)
So, I guess we'll see :)
Amy
32,097 / 50,000
Okt 10, 2007 - 19 17
Hohoho, this is my first time doing NaNo as well, although I heard about it a good two or so years back. UNFORTUNATELY it falls just when TEE starts, so I only have about a week or so to actually write /o\
The story I'm planning on is complete crack though, nothing serious, so I suppose I don't really have to think all that much as I write it xD
The hardest parts will be:
1) Actually writing 50k words; my 3 longest (incomplete and complete) stories only JUST add up to 50k words Dx
2) Stopping the automatic culling when I write
HEY GUYS HEY GUYS HEY HEY HEY GUYS HEY ! GOOD LUCK COME NOVEMBER ALRIGHT? /thumbsup!
6,114 / 50,000
Okt 12, 2007 - 04 38
Yep, another first timer here.
I have an incredibly vague outline for my novel, which should make it a wee bit more interesting and probably a wee bit less successful. All I'm really aiming for is a story with as little cliches as possible. For I loathe cliches.
And naturally, I have a full plan for the month:
Week #1: Coffee
Week #2: Coffee
Week #3: Coffee
Week #4: Write like Odin himself depends on it.
Good luck to all those from Perth!
----------Woo! Signature!
62,527 / 50,000
Okt 12, 2007 - 06 00
If by plan you mean an outline, then... no, good lord no.
But, I do have.....
... an IDEA! In the actual form of a plot, not just an "oooh I should write about that!" kind of way. It just came to me about twenty minutes ago. I'm so excited!
>.> It's the small things that count, right?
50,014 / 50,000
Okt 14, 2007 - 06 06
ouch, TEE at the same time :-(. Good luck!
0 / 50,000
Okt 17, 2007 - 04 16
Bah! I didn't plan this year and I shall not change this year!
Besides: I'm using my not-planning time to cram in a bunch of study for the Exams in four weeks (Irritatingly set in November).
Oh! Oh! But I do have an idea! Ingenious, actually! Absolutely brilliant. But you'd expect that from someone as absolutely amazing as me. Modest, too. ^^
Plans are hard to stick by anyway; most I've got is a general point for the plot to revolve around, and about five or six points i'll hit on the first half through; plus a dramatic ending. ^^
Sigh, back to studying...
Loyally not planning,
Ben ^^
50,016 / 50,000
Okt 20, 2007 - 00 45
Well, I will be writing a fantasy/magic realism novel. I have never written in this genre before, so it should be very interesting and a real challenge. I have planned out a bit: But did not hear or know about NaNoWriMo until late September time, so didn't have that much time to plan out. But I'm not one to usually suffer from writer's block, so I should be able to whip something off, even if I don't end up finishing it. I have also planned out one character and have several ideas for some of the other main/key characters. I have also taken some notes on what the novel is going to be about and how it will progress. It's just a matter of filling in the blanks where possible. But I suspect that a lot of this will be done during November itself, anyway.
I am lucky this year, in previous years I would have had first school exams, then university ones. But I'm all done with study now. I work full time, more or less, but when I get home from work I plan on writing, writing and doing some more writing- No matter how tired or cranky I get! I don't drink coffee, so I will need to find some other way to try and keep awake. My birthday is in November, so I may take one day off to celebrate that, but other than this I am just going to KEEP GOING!
Good luck to all!
19,500 / 50,000
Okt 22, 2007 - 00 20
Your fifth? Ha... And here I am thinking a sequel to my FIRST would be pretty good! lol
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Creatrix of i Goddess the meditation movie
52,851 / 50,000
Okt 22, 2007 - 03 37
I have two characters, one villain, and a vague inclination what may or may not happen. The problem is I have two ideas, I always have more than one idea, its not that fun really, just annoying... Theres a rockstar and at some point an alien in one of them, and a socially-phobic girl with a musician trying to coax her out of her shell and a psychopathic psychiatrist in the other one. Vaguelly..
----------I cant decide which one to do...
"In the sixties people took acid to make the world weird, now the world is weird people take Prozac to make the world normal." - Damon Albarn
I just turned a psychiatrist into an alien. That was fun.
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50,207 / 50,000
Okt 22, 2007 - 07 26
This is my first time doing it, and I'm tentatively excited. I'd ideally want to do 100K in this month, which would be 400 words a day every weekday (which is tough, but not impossible) and I'm leaning toward small quaint country town with a supernatural twist. Its quite likely there'll be as much sex as possible to keep me entertained.
3,927 / 50,000
Okt 22, 2007 - 18 44
Plans? Ideas? Plots?
I was thinking of just taking the Kerouacian route. Lots of drugs and coffee and no sleep.
Just kidding. Have a beginning and end point in mind and a number of main characters. Will fill the gaps in during the month.
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Okt 26, 2007 - 23 32
This is my second Nano and while I did write my 50,000 words in 2006, the product was as close to being a novel as a Hydatidiform cyst with hair and fragments of bone is to being a viable fetus (See Wikipedia if not aware of this fascinating thing)
This time I plan to have a lot more fun and therefore write much better, with less planning and more general focus on that which is awesome and delightful for me as a writer to immerse myself in. I wrote a magic realism short story or 3 linking to an obscure Arthurian element. (Which is probably the worst sort of hubris.) I intend to use the 4 main characters from one of these and write a series of short stories each based on one of 16 facets of that Arthurian element. Together they will slowly develop the internal and external storylines. Less like a snowflake and more like the tide coming in.
----------Hmmm maybe I had better do a little planning of my 16 stories, and the internal, external and back storylines. Look forward to catching up with all you wonderful writers under my new nom de plume.
"Too much of a good thing can be wonderful" Mae West
50,207 / 50,000
Okt 29, 2007 - 02 59
I DO know what this is, and I know that I was totally traumatised upon my first encounter with the concept. thank heaps :(
(joking)
(kindof)
(no, certainly joking)
53,990 / 50,000
Okt 29, 2007 - 08 11
I'll be attempting to finish last year's NaNo, currently at 57k, by writing another 50k AND finishing it.
I will be slightly disappointed if I don't finish it by the end of November, but I'll still have December if necessary.
The Ultimate Supreme Goal Of Awesome Ubercubeness(tm) is to have it finished before the end of the year so I can then bribe one of my poor suffering readers into beta-ing the damn thing for me and hopefully start posting the finished product online somewhere (since it's strange smutty dystopian RPS nonsense XD)
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"Do not meddle in the affairs of slashers, for you are cute and look good with other men!" - Unknown
Current Project:
The Glass House (NaNo 06)
Current: WC: 111,179
Current Status: Editing
118,026 / 50,000
Nov 7, 2007 - 02 01
Well, I scrapped my outline three times, last time, on October 31st. GOOD STUFF! Those Halloween'ers egging my neighbour certainly helped me think more clearly!
----------I iz teh Batman. I haz built-in pecs.
2007: Waddle 118K