Thread: Anyone trying this year?

I didn't enter last year, but I'm seriously considering doing it this year. Better get at it if I am, huh? I finished the contest in 2007. I did rewrite after rewrite on it, and figured if I was ever going to be published I might as well publish it myself. Self-published on CreateSpace. It's for sale on Amazon.com

For anyone who wants to add me as a writing buddy, I'm MJeannie on NaNo.

Well it has started and today I finished my first 2337 words

To all of you reading this who have entered..................what are you doing? your supposed to be writing

Originally Posted by Mistique

To all of you reading this who have entered..................what are you doing? your supposed to be writing

Well I am going to brag about the big fat 0 words I have written so far, have some coffee, and then try to sit down and type on my novel sometime today.

How's everyone doing so far? I had no idea what I was going to write about, so I took out an old list of thirty-five unrelated words used in an old creative writing exercise and based my first 1,500 words around those words, forming a short story around them that I can expand into a novel, hopefully. I just hope I can pull this thing off and I don't come up against a total road block! I was awake at 1 a.m. hashing it over in my mind, I'm such a dunce.

I've been procrastinating today. I typed up some notes and an almost-outline. Too much going on right now around here. I hope that when I do get started it will all come to me. I didn't know what I was going to write about til about 2 AM this morning!

Originally Posted by PSFoster

I've been procrastinating today. I typed up some notes and an almost-outline. Too much going on right now around here. I hope that when I do get started it will all come to me. I didn't know what I was going to write about til about 2 AM this morning!

At least you know what your writing. It's 5:37 P.M. here, and I still don't have a flippin' clue as to what I'm going to write. I was originally thinking about a short story collection, because I want to keep my word count as close to 50,000 words as possible, and this, I believe will help in getting as close to it as possible.

I'm so screwed...

I know the story, had an outline done a month ago, my go-get-em went and got a sammich

I completed 25,000+ words last year before fading. Had an idea but this year I don't. Thinking of maybe rewriting last year's idea since I didn't finish it. Hmm...

I'm Raging Prose on the Nano site.

Well, I've finally decided what to write, and to be perfectly honest, I'm pleasantly surprised at my conclusion. Although we're supposed to be writing a "novel" I personally don't think that 50,000 words is anywhere close to what a novel is. So, I've decided to write a bunch of short stories and compile a collection. Thus far I have twelve titles for short stories, and 3/4 of those I actually have an idea of what I want to do with them! Now, I'm actually pumped, I just have to make sure I keep up on it. A good kick in the ass every once in a while, and I should be able to make it through this month alright... I hope.

Originally Posted by kidstaple

So, I've decided to write a bunch of short stories and compile a collection. Thus far I have twelve titles for short stories, and 3/4 of those I actually have an idea of what I want to do with them! Now, I'm actually pumped

That is an awesome idea!

Thanks, now only if I'd actually stop being lazy and procrastinating, that would be great! I've only got 1,810 words according to NaNo's website, and we're on day three. I should have a hell of a lot more.

I am taking a pass this year; I have more time to write but thanks to the newborn, am too exhausted to actually do it. I have a plot I like; maybe I will use it next year or write the novel on my own time.

Good luck to those who are doing it and perservere!

Well, I planned on getting started last night, but decided to go to my "feller's" for dinner, and that led to staying all night and I didn't get home til this evening, and I have to work tonight so I don't want to start and have to quit in the middle of something interesting.

How's that for a run-on sentence?

I actually signed up to do it this year. I haven't done it since 2005? It's been awhile. I'm probably cheating but I have the first 50,000 words of my novel written and I'm using nano as a kick in the pants to finish it. So by the the end of the month I hope to have 100,000 word novel completed. I have an outline, the basic plot and all the characters are fully formed so I feel like I'm cheating.

So far I have 3,005 words. This is killing my sleep though. I don't get a chance to focus and write until after the kids are asleep so I've been staying up until 2 am. Then I have to wake up at 7 and get them on the bus. If I'm lucky my toddler will still be asleep and I can catch another hour or two.

I'm travelinmom over there if you're interested.