NaNoWriMo 2010: are you in?

I’m just a tad behind schedule on my NaNoWriMo daily page production from 2002. Don’t push me @Jeruba. Really, I’m not in the mood for it. I’m doing the best I can. :-) H

Ugh. I got crazy depressed last time I tried this.

One more time for the last time.

I really, really want to do this someday. Sadly, this will not be my year. There is just no way I’ll have the time to devote to it. One of these days, though… I’m going to do it. I AM!

I’m in, on one condition. That I can outsource it to someone else :-)

no, but i’m a regular participant in NaPoWriMo or National Poetry Writing Month in April. we call it 30 in 30 or some variation. much love to those of you cranking those pages out. i’ve written some of my best work trying to meet the one a day challenge.

#keeponpushing, folks.

Oh hell! I didn’t even know there was a month. Thanks @Jeruba !
I always knew there’d be a day (let alone a month) when my little notes will become a published work and y’all (yes, you know who you are) will be so sorry for what you said (too late for apologies now. You are in the book)

Probably not.
Coincidentally, I’ve been gathering notes for a story for the past few weeks, but I don’t like the pressure of having a deadline. I probably wouldn’t get the whole thing done in one month, either.
You can’t rush inspiration.
Or at least I can’t.

P.S. As a curiosity, is this a national event or an international one? Do you have to be a citizen of the US of A to participate?

NanoWriMo is international, anyone can participate it seems and possibly in a variety of languages (need to check that). Bravery and an idea is really the only requirement, writing crap with gusto is quite attractive… Am I brave enough…AAAAARRRGGGHHH? Oh, the discipline required, oh the time at the computer… Oh, well, maybe.

I’m in. This will be my fourth year, and I won the previous three years.

The novel I will write is one I started brainstorming and outlining way back in spring and summer 2009. Midway through last November, I nearly quit what I was working on and switched to this one. So, it’s time to write it.

From my novel info page: Desperate enough to build a time machine for the purpose of killing Alexander Graham Bell (but too wimpy to use it), a telephone phobic moves into the Deadzone Heights Apartment Complex, where a mysterious monthly electronics and communications blackout raises questions and creates quirky community rituals.

I’m in. This is year is going to be the year.

The first time I participated in NaNoWriMo was 2007. I wrote ten pages on the first day and never touched the document again. I kept reasoning “well, I wrote so much the other day… surely I can put off writing today.” What a horrible line of reasoning. I need to make sure I don’t do that this time around.

Last year, I came better prepared with an outline. I reached forty pages before I hit a bad streak of writer’s block and the editor in me kicked into overdrive. I still haven’t gone back to work on the novel. It’s not even a bad story. I wish I could bring myself to continue working on it, but none of the words are flowing.

I have to dedicate myself to a novel for this year, but I’m 90% sure I will finally begin writing Myths. The idea is that the heavy-hitters from Greek mythology attend a “Greek” house at a university called The House of Rumour. Word gets around that Hera and Zeus are dating, which causes a bit of an uproar. Various students take it upon themselves to try and break the couple up. The story will be told from Persephone’s point-of-view.

The first sentence (“In January our group became incestuous”) has been rolling around in my head for months. I’ve tried to convince other mythology buffs to write the story instead – because I’ll manage to make it boring – but I suppose I’ll have to be the one to write my ”Metamorphoses meets Mean Girls” spiel.

My novels are in my head but it will take more than NaNoBooBoo or something for me to start on them. Sorry, @Jeruba!

I am ABSOLUTELY going to join this year; I tried last year, but sloth and disorganisation got the better of me. This year, however, I’m dedicating a task management database, pomodoro timer, OneNote notebook and my whole month to it; I will NOT fail this time.

I’d love to do it again. I didn’t quite meet the goal last year (the only other time I’ve done this), but I did start a great story that is near complete now. This time I think I’ll try something different and finally write Stonewater Creek, a break from my usual supernatural horror stories to focus on Southern life, although there is murder involved. :) It’s a story I’ve been thinking about for years but never actually written. This would be a good chance to see where I can go with this story.

@muppetish: A great first sentence!

I wrote, maybe, 5000 words for my first attempt last year, but they remained illegibly on notebook paper and I kind of abandoned the project.

This year I’ll be too busy to work on a novel due to theses etc., but I’m kind of juggling about ten short stories right now and I’d like to use November as an excuse to work on them.

Even so, I’d love to follow y’all’s progress on the website, if anyone wants to provide a username, here or via PM, or whatever.

I wish I had the time to do something like this. If only I wasn’t already juggling 20 credits, a part-time job school club duties, opera lessons, trying to get a career lined up for when I graduate, my fragile social life, and so many other things at the same time. I would love to get back into writing.

One of the keys to NaNoWriMo is this:

Turn off your inner editor.

Just write, keep writing, and don’t look back. Not until it’s over, anyway.

This will be my second year, informally my third, and I really try to do that.

In 2009 it took me from 4 to 6 hours a day to make my daily word count of 1667. That’s really not so many words. Many of us post that much in a day around here! It would have been half that amount of time, probably, if I hadn’t compulsively done so much research while I was at it to get all the details right (all those [Fiction questions] I posted last November). This time I’m doing a little advance thinking and research. Even though it’s not quite cricket to start writing ahead of time, many people do outline and develop characters, etc., beforehand.

All I have is a title (The Oracle) and a rough idea. Which is all I had last year, and I finished with 53,000 words on November 28th. It was mostly worthless, but it was worthless in a fun kind of way, and did I ever learn from it.

I completed it last year but this year I calculated that I have only 10 days in November when I’m going to be able to write at all, so I’m not competing. However I have set my own little target and will be writing along in solidarity, working on my current novel.

I will be attempting to do something this year. I really doubt I will make 50,000 words though what with university and such (experiment to run, coursework to do, reading to do etc etc). If I make half of that I would be really pleased for my first year attempting it.

I have a sort of plan (and ending) ready. It is based on a trio of songs from my favourite band. Caleb, The End of this Chapter and Don’t Say A Word from Sonata Arctica for whomever is interested. Although I aim to stick close to the songs (so that they complement each other), I will be sticking my own interpretation to it.

For those (ie everyone) who are not familiar with the songs, it will be the story of a stalker (from his perspective) as he tries to pursue a girl who once loved him but broke up and is now seeing another man.

@downtide The ML of my region was able to get her 50k last year just by working at the write-ins. Which probably totaled somewhere around ten days.

Do you go to the write-ins? Most of us who do agree that they’re twice as productive as any other writing time. It’s awesome.

I haven’t tried the write-ins. Every time I looked at the scheduled times, I thought, “That’s cool, but between getting dressed and driving over there and back, I’d lose more than an hour that I could spend writing.” Instead I just hunkered down at my desk and pounded away.

What makes them so productive, @hobbitsubculture? I was afraid they’d be burdened by distracting chitchat.

There’s some chitchat, but it tends to come in waves, usually when people need to take breaks anyway. The write-ins I’ve been to are typically 2–3 hours, so even at particularly talkative write-ins, it eventually dies out and people buckle down on their novels.

Something about being there, in person, with a handful of other people who share the same goal and are all there to write, makes the write-ins a great environment for productive writing. Maybe it’s just the peer pressure. Or the coffee. Either way, I’ve been to events with two separate groups, and the vibe was similar with each group.

The ML of the main group I go to brings in little strips of paper with words and phrases to jog writing ideas. Sometimes people at the write-ins will call for word wars. But those are just extra bonuses, not necessarily what make the write-ins so fun and useful for me.

@downtide The write-ins in my town are apparently at times when I can’t go.

Well, I decided to go the horror route again. I just can’t keep away from it.

This is me: http://www.nanowrimo.org/eng/user/510794

Anyone doing it this year (again)?
http://www.fluther.com/132928/nanowrimo-2011-whos-participating/