first timers?

Marty:

I'm a first time WriMo, too! And my hair is gray(I hope that doesn't bother you too much). I, too, could use a lot of support here, since I don't have a working title or anything but a character, at the moment. And, for anyone else who might be reading this, I'll offer my support to anyone who needs it, from my past writing experience, such as it is!

I'm a first timer as well. I'm still not sure what my plot is going to look like, but I have some vague character ideas. I'm kind of a shy writer, but I'm hoping to go to a couple of meet-ups / write-ins at some point along the way. I just hope I have enough time for everything!

I think I'm going to go get a little moleskin notebook to carry around with me for ideas and thoughts when I'm away from a computer/typewriter (yes, call me crazy, but I think I might actually write some, if not all, of my story on a typewriter.. just need to find a new ribbon for it). I have a notes application on my iphone, but nothing beats a good handwritten note to yourself that you can hardly read because you scribbled it out in the dark right before falling asleep....

Hey there!

Another first-timer here. In fact, I just signed up today! I've never written anything serious before though, so I'm going to need a lot of butt-kicking to get my whining and procrastinating under control. As of now, I have absolutely no idea what my plot is going to end up looking like, but I have a few character ideas floating around that I can use to come up with something. It's nice to know there are some other Nano first-timers in the area, thanks guys!

I'm a first-timer too, and I'm honestly a little intimidated by being in the "best" region!

I write fanfic for fun and internet-attention, for a show that has a small loyal following and a core demographic of people about ten years younger than me, and have found that I write a little over two-thousand words in a sitting of three or so hours, naturally. I'm not at all sure what I'll be writing for my Novel, but my plan is to spill out 2,500 words a day until I can't anymore!

There are some ideas kicking around in my head, but I've never written anything substantial involving original characters. Most of all I will probably need help with names. Once I've named a character, they tend to be far easier to write, but it has to be the right name, you know? My one fantasy world that I've got a fully fleshed, epic story for with tons of characters, settings and details was originally intended as a videogame, and I came up with it 11 years ago at the age of 14. As such, all of the names of everyone and everything are tragically cheesy. I'm trying to decide if I have to rename these characters that have lived in my head for so long, or just go with it and write my cheese, or do something completely different. Jewish Historical Vampire Epic? Coming of Age Great American Novel? A fifty thousand word rumination on the transiency of art and bananas? Perhaps I can combine them all.

Either way, I'm hoping to make my first attempt into a win, and I'll do my best to help all the other first-timers win too!

http://mizufae.livejournal.com/ & http://twitter.com/mizufae

It's my first time as well. I've been bubbling a couple of ideas around in my head all year when life circumstances didn't let me participate last year. I've settled on a bit of a hybrid of a couple of ideas. Tonight, in fact, I just finished my first comprehensive story outline. I had finished some basic bios earlier for people and places, but this is the first time I looked and had to go 'now, how do we get *out* of this problem?'. I really started to feel like the story had it's own feel more than just "yeah, that may work" that I've been doing in my head. Hopefully if (when!) I get stuck, I can look back and have some guidance if I've gotten very far off track.

We're having guests over the first weekend of the event and I was afraid to start with a deficit, but also didn't want to make a big deal with it with my gf (it was her cousin among those coming over). When I mentioned this, she showed me an email she had already emailed them describing nanowrimo a little and basically was "yeah, you can meet Michael, but we have to leave him alone some too". Awesome. While she doesn't really understand the contest (or at least the desire to do it), she's at least all behind the effort on my part.

Twitter: www.twitter.com/mktacoma

My first time, too! This is going to be super fun! Can't wait for Nov 1!!!

I'm glad that you are all active on the boards for your first time! I think that meeting people and having friends through the process is key to success. Hopefully you'll stop by some of the write-ins, they are a lot of fun. I host 3 per week in the Tukwila area, and they are on the calendar.

Feel free to send me a NaNo mail if you need anything, and I'll see you soon.

Calendar: http://bit.ly/4lDeSd

Renda

Renda Dodge
South Seattle Municipal Liaison

I am a 69 year old 1st timer. I am excited! Alison Anne is jumping off the page and turning cartwheels with glee! She just got a wink from The Magic Dragon Man.

paticamelot

First timer here as well. I'm in the Ballard area and have never written anything of substantial length before, which is part of the reason I went ahead and signed up. I need a challenge and I need to get away from the ideals I have about how to write a novel and just write one already, lol. It's nice to see so many other newbies, it's always good to know that you're not alone.

I'm also joining the first-time club. I've wanted to write a novel since I was a kid, and have a couple of ideas that I've been kicking around for awhile, so this is a good way to get me motivated. I'm also in the North Seattle area. A write-in sounds fun if there are ever any near my end of the city.

I'm another grey-haired first timer! And I've gotten two of my nephews (12 and 10) to join the YWP NaNo. I kicked around a few novel ideas in my youth, but never had the discipline to get very far. Feel free to nag me, people!

Another first timer. On the Eastside. Attempting Urban Fantasy this time. I am used to writing shorts in this genre and scared to death about attempting to do it novel length!

I'm new here as well. A friend recommended this website to me. I will try my best to get to the word count!

This is my first time, though I've known about NaNo for years and have always had a passion to write. I recently started work on my first novel and wrote about 30k in a month on it, but I'm sort of at a hard spot and struggling to make myself work on it.

I'm hoping that writing something completely different for NaNo will allow me to get my inspiration back and get me working again, no matter what the project. I'm a much happier person when I'm writing, so NaNo will be like therapy for me.

Oh, and November 1st is my birthday, so it just seems like a great way to kick off my last year in my twenties.

I've had a handful of friends join NaNo over the last few years, but hadn't joined myself, ironically enough, because I didn't have the free time due to writing commitments. I'm a 35 year old first-timer in Maple Valley, down by Kent. I've had a few poems and short stories published, and I've been working for several years trying to get a comic book published. I've gotten close a few times, but keep losing pencilers for reasons running from the simple lack of time or commitment up to hurricanes and black mold infestations causing an artist's house to become uninhabitable.
So, this year, for the first time in ages, I'm not currently working with anyone, so I'm going to give this a shot instead, and see where my characters want to take the story just in print.

Don't know where or when I might be able to end up, but I'd definitely be interested in meeting with folks, and while I've never done this kind of project before, I do have a background in writing. So I'll probably both need help, and be willing and able to offer suggestions now and then, depending on what people need.

Good luck, everyone.

I seem to have found myself working on a trilogy for my first NaNo. Huh.

2009: Dawn of Steam
Book1: First Light (finished)
Book2: Gods of the Sun (finished)
Book3: House of the Rising Sun (in progress)

First timer here! Looking forward to November. Good luck to everybody.

This is my first time too and I would like to have a buddy. Thanks

I'm a first timer! I'm down in the Columbia City/Seward Park/Rainier Beach part of town! I was just at bookfest and now I'm even more excited to start!

I too am a first timer.

As for my writing experience? Well, I've been working on a memoir of my life which is a work in progress that I'll probably be working on years to come before it (hopefully!) gets published.

As for fictional work, it seems every time I sit down to write a novel, I can never finish it. It has been a dream of mine to become a writer. So hopefully I can put down the 2000 words a day this time and just get it out of me...

I'm super pumped and ready for November 1!

I'm another first timer, though I'm coming into this with some serious backup--I think everyone in the writer's group that I've been attending since January has done NaNo at least once. So I've been getting all kinds of pointers from them.

My biggest challenge is going to be that I'm also writing a bunch of non-fiction for my job in November. So I'll be writing all day AND all night. I am going to try to prevent my characters from ending up in my non-fiction and my work related writing to stay out of my novel. :)

Well, it's nice to know I'm in such good company, especially with the many "gray-haired" WriMo's who've responded! I'm jazzed for all of us and can't wait to get going. Like many of you, my novel is in a very fuzzy place at this point, but now that I've made myself accoutable to other writers, I'll have to jump in and write on.

Is there anybody, new to or experienced with NaNo, in the Everett/Marysville area?

Jeri
Life's An Adventure. Gear Up!

This is my first attempt also. I am hoping to find weekday/daytime meet ups to attend.

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This is my first attempt also. I am hoping to find weekday/daytime meet ups to attend.

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I suppose I'll respond here, too. You know, for posterity's sake. ;)
I've been way too scared to write a novel, but I think I'm finally ready. And I think NaNo is just the thing to help me through it!
I look forward to getting to know the community. Good luck everyone!

--JJL

Total first timer here, and a little nervous!
Especially since it's only a few days out, and I'm bouncing back and forth between two possible (but fairly similar) plot ideas!

Hey all,

My name is Luke, this is my first nano. I'm a bit terrified of the prospect. I wrote quite a bit academically while I was in school last year, but never creative writing to this extent. Looking forward to hitting a few write-ins, maybe meeting some folks in my area!

If anyone is staging anything up in the lake city/university area, let me know!

Hi! I'm a first-timer, too. Wondering if I have the guts to make my story as gritty as I want it!

Hi! I'm a first-timer, too. Wondering if I have the guts to make my story as gritty as I want it!

Hi! I'm a first-timer, too. Wondering if I have the guts to make my story as gritty as I want it!