Thread: YAAAY!! Who's doing it this year?

I am so thrilled to see so many WFers getting ready for this event because, oh yes, I'm another one, I registered last night!

I was going to try writing a novel (from an idea I had years ago) as I thought that was a prerequisite with NaNoWriMo, to write a (new) fiction. But I don't write fiction - well - and so... discovering, only last night, after hints on this site, that non-fiction was now acceptable (in their 'NaNoRebels' Forum), I return to my favourite genre and a memoir it may well be!

But I'm all confused today. Shall I do a Part Three to the two parts I have already worked on but not edited, or start something completely anew?

I might have challenged myself to the novel idea but then, as you know, I'm quite severely disabled and time is not something I can take for granted.

Oh well, it's good to be planning anything at all and I'm so glad you guys are on board - it should be a lot of fun!

Love, Virginia

Sorry, forgot to say, this will be my first time And, yes, I am excited!

V.

Yay Virginia!

I would say try challenging yourself with something completely new. If you've written two parts already you might find yourself limited or getting stuck because you already have a concrete premise. But then again, different things work for different people so just evaluate what you feel would be a most successful strategy so you don't feel discouraged. Just my two cents.

Thank you, RH, you've been very helpful. I do actually think I might be bored by more "remembering"!

And, you know what, there's a little love story I wanted to try once - maybe that would be easier than the other idea which was sort-of sci-fi and needed more research.

Of course, all NaNoWriMo really is, anyway, is practice at writing every day in your own time. Not as easy as when, for example, I was a journalist, had a belligerent news editior and unavoidable deadlines! It's about self-discipline and self-belief in your writing abilities.

And, if this crazy event in November helps you work on those qualities, then that can only be good.

Right?!

Thank you, again, RH. I hope it goes well for you too and look forward to seeing you "around" over the coming weeks!

Love, Virginia

I'm in again this year. This will be my fifth year. I have a couple of ideas, but the one I think I'm going to run with is a sci-fi/satire in the vein of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.

Yeah I think the romance story would be a great place to start! Funny you mention sci-fi in need of research... the story I'm going with is going to require

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a LOT of research so I'm starting on it now and hammering down at least the scientific framework. To be realistic, I may skim on the science for NaNo and then return and make sure all the details are concrete in the rewrite. Heck, it'll be fun either way!

And, if this crazy event in November helps you work on those qualities, then that can only be good.
Right?!

Or drive you into a psychotic meltdown

I have a couple of ideas, but the one I think I'm going to run with is a sci-fi/satire in the vein of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.

Ooooo that sounds like fun! Hey, does WF usually host a "share part of your NaNo" thread during NaNo at all? If not we should just have a thread in this section where we post sections of our work as we go along. Not the whole thing obviously but it would be a good way to keep going and maintain momentum.

Cheers,
Linz

We've had a thread for posting excerpts of our NaNo work in the past. I'm sure another one will turn up here once November rolls around.

This will be my first year as well and I'm all psyched up!

This is my third year. I've had two unsuccessful years but this year is going to be different. I've put seven months into plotting this baby out (I have every scene laid out in the order they happen), so I pretty well know how it's going to go. It's a comic series. I have a great artist already working on the preliminaries too. She, of course, is not doing everything in November, but we plan on having something ready to send out to publishers by February.

In either case, I'm excited about a month full of intense writing.

That's me officially signed up - woo hoo!!

I decided to try this year. It's gonna be hard for a short story writer to stretch out 50,000 words! But they do say that it doesn't have to be good, and not to edit til after 11/30. OMG, how do I turn off the editor in my head? I edit grocery lists!!

My name on nanowrimo is Snapdragon.

cool, will look out for you in the forums. I was going to have a cooler name, but I just stuck with lilacstarflower. I figure november is going to be complicated enough without another username to remember lol

Yay! I'm getting really excited but have been procrastinating on my outline. I've also changed the story I'm going to do. The original one was going to require too much scientific writing which will, I think, discourage me and slow me down. So I'm choosing a lite sci-fi/spec story that I conceptualized in 8th grade but never finished. Gives me a place to start but a chance to do a complete reassemble of the story.

PS, I'm going to add you as a buddy, ok? I only have 2 Nano buddies and that's depressing. (I'm not creative enough to think of a different user name, so I imagine you'll figure out which one's me.)