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

I am f'king doing it people. I WILL DO NANOWRIMO! I've flaked out the past two years but I have two excellent ideas at present and so just need to pick one and go with it. Even though I have the heaviest work load thus far in my collegiate career, I'm still going to do it PERIOD. Anybody else have pre-NaNo thoughts??? Does everyone have an idea of what they're going to write about yet? Any tips for a newbie like me??

Ha! I told myself I was going to do it this year too, but I surely can't give you any tips since I've never done it either. Just like you, I have two ideas that I've been mulling over for the past two months, and I've even done world building for one of them and plotting for the other. I think I know which one I'm going to pick though, because of the two ideas, there's one I'm really excited about, and one that I know is going to take a crap load of research.

So I think I'll go with the exciting one.

*EDIT* That reminds me, I think I should go sign up.

*EDIT EDIT* But apparently the site's down at the moment.

I'm doing it for the first time too.

I'm getting all my research done this month

cant wait

Doing for the first time this year aswell. It will also be the first time that I try to write a novel so it should be exciting! The only way I'm ever going to write a novel is to have a deadline so NaNoWrMo is probably one of the only ways...

whats NANOWRIMO?

National Novel Writing Month or National November Writing Month; I forget which one is more correct.

I thought National Novel Writing Month was the appropriate one, but I'm not sure.

Kayleigh, the whole point of the NaNoWriMo 'contest' is to be able to write 50k words of a novel during the month of November. It's a fun, friendly sort of competition that doesn't actually give you a prize if you 'win' but it's still good fun to play along.

Looks like i'm going to do this also!! I have some ideas and a synopsis sitting there just WANTING to be written... This will give me the excuse i need!! Though, i've siad it before and wrote, well... nought!!

But i'm older and wiser now...

Time will tell!!

First time for me too. I wrote one two years ago during NaNoWriMo but didn't get in on the real thing. That was practice, I guess. Got an idea, outline, research just about done. This'll be my seventh novel so I have some idea of how to do it. Going to be near-future sf with some cyberpunkish undertones, part of a tetralogy of planned future history novels, second in the series to be written, first in the timeline.

5th year for me.

Barring any unforeseen disasters, it'll be my 5th 'win', too.

Originally Posted by valeca

5th year for me.

Barring any unforeseen disasters, it'll be my 5th 'win', too.

Quick question, is it better to have a complete outline and research done beforehand? I have a rough outline done but that's about it...

Sorry, I can't answer that.

What works for me might not work for you.

To each his own.

I will probably do it next year. I need to focus on it and get it done.

5th year for me.

Barring any unforeseen disasters, it'll be my 5th 'win', too.

That's really awesome I'm pretty excited for it and it helps that my roommate is doing it with me. I see late nights, screaming, and desperation in my near future. It's gonna be AWESOME!

Originally Posted by Raging_Hopeful

I am f'king doing it people. I WILL DO NANOWRIMO! I've flaked out the past two years but I have two excellent ideas at present and so just need to pick one and go with it. Even though I have the heaviest work load thus far in my collegiate career, I'm still going to do it PERIOD. Anybody else have pre-NaNo thoughts??? Does everyone have an idea of what they're going to write about yet? Any tips for a newbie like me??

I'm in the same boat!

This will be my first year, but I am ready for it! lol I have watched people do NaNoWriMo for years, cowering away from it myself... But this year, I shall do it!