I still have two hours 'til November first. *Sigh* Good luck Aubrey, have fun!

I honestly wish every year that I had the time to do Nano. But November has always been annually my busiest month of the year with either finals or studies and now work in RL. XD.

Sometimes I can't get a break .

If you can do Nano, go for it! I sure would if I could too! XD

~ Pyre

Cool! That's one - if anyone else wants to join in on the word war, let me know! Don't worry about the widget, I'll take care of all of that.


Go ahead and add me to the list! It's technically Nov 1st for me since I'm still visiting family in India so I'm gonna get started I guess

I've never even heard of this!
How do you do it?

Alright, I've got ten mins 'til midnight so I'll explain. NaNo is National Novel Writing Month. The goal is to write 50,000 or more words in the month of November. The site for more info is here.

Thanks!
I'll check it out.

It does sound interesting...
Gah!
I can't decide if I should participate.
I have to go check with my "editor."
Bleh...

Kay. Cool.

Well mines going good right now, though I'm certain it's going to get 'interesting' later on when I'm closer to wrapping mine up. Eh, they haven't even been put under the spell yet so I'm not even in the Jomon period.

How's it going Aubrey?

First Paragraph: It's there but Dokuga did one of it's strange things and the post is on the first page.

Second Paragraph: I saw that you chose Blaze, I've been stalking NaNo looking at word counts and what not. I'm over the 1,667 word count currently, three hundred words away from 4,000. Glad that you got help with plot!

Third Paragraph: Yeah, explanations from the beginning were kind of a female dog, especially since my wrist still hurts from burning it earlier. Idiot me! I did my best but will probably in editing figure out something better.

Fourth Paragraph: Sure, just let me knew when you get it up.

I'm really interested in partaking especially since I have stories I want to finish and I really need to get them done... but I've never participated before, and don't even know the website to sign up on. XD

LADY K! This is easy stuff, and it's still the first so you're not even behind
Just go to www.nanowrimo.org and register, and then all you do is write words, pray to hit 50K, and verify your word count at the end!

I'm lyrainthedark there, if you're looking for writing buddies, and if you look up in this thread I think some other people posted their Wrimo names too.

JOIN THE WORD PARTY!

It calls to you, you know it

Aubrey, I think you're just being perfectionist right now. Four thousand came easily to me.

Lady K, join the fun, you totally should.

I did Camp Nano in April and it was sooo worth it. Also, follow any advice Lyra or Stella give you. They're beasts <3

I don't know why I'm doing this other than the fact that I have a story nagging at my mind. I still have a midterm to do before Sunday and a busy weekend ahead. ><

Though I am proud to announce that I am delving into the horror genre for the first time!

I'm quoththedragon on nano

Woot! 5,000 baby!!!! I'm 1/10 of the way there!!!

Lyra wrote:
Aubrey, despair not! I shall share with you >.> a secret. The biggest nano lesson.

THE BIGGEST NANO LESSON: Do. Not. Edit. At all.

I mean, if typos really bug you or something...I suuuuuppoooooose that's fine - but RESIST THE URGE to edit. First drafts suck. No matter what. Unless you're Mozart (we're not Mozart, he's dead.) And ALL the words you write count to your word count - so if you find yourself in the middle of a sentence rewriting the previous paragraph, woo! Don't delete - just go onward!

WORDS! WRITE! WOO! :cheers on all of everyone:

I knoooowwwwwww! And the funny thing is, I don't write sucky first drafts because I can't do it unless I'm doing it deliberately, so the problem isn't that I'm editing - it's that my muse is being completely, 100% uncooperative. For some reason, I can't get past my block. Or at least I can't right now - I'm thinking that if I stay up tonight, I can get some late-night, half-delirious-from-lack-of-sleep writing done.

At any rate, I'm going to try not to stress out just yet - it's still day one and I know that as soon as I get in my groove, the words will come. Hopefully my groove doesn't take too long to show up!

QuothTheDragon wrote:
I did Camp Nano in April and it was sooo worth it. Also, follow any advice Lyra or Stella give you. They're beasts <3

I don't know why I'm doing this other than the fact that I have a story nagging at my mind. I still have a midterm to do before Sunday and a busy weekend ahead. ><

Though I am proud to announce that I am delving into the horror genre for the first time!

I'm quoththedragon on nano

Camp NaNo? I know nothing of this! What is it?

And congrats on branching out - it can be scary to do it, especially for something as serious as an entire novel. Kudos to you for your bravery!

~Aubrey

Yeah, let's hope it kicks in soon, I'm beating you so badly! (My ego needs a time out.)

Aubrey: Don't despair. I'm technically ahead today but I can tell I'm probably going to spend the majority of the day not writing. I think I'm going to end up redrawing my country map to perfection and stuff like that.
Good luck to all

Camp Nano happens in April and July. You can set your own word limit, so you can focus on whatever project you want and not just a novel. I randomly decided to do it on April 1st last time and I finished! It was an amazing feeling!

If I do end up doing NaNo this year (still up in the air a bit), I don't know if I'm gonna be successful. Plus this midterm is killing me. I'm only halfway through T_T and I have a new hatred for scholarly references.

You know, I think I'll see if I can write 50,000 words in a month and try to work it around my work schedule. I already have most of my plot and everything thought out. I hope I can write it in time >.<

The more the merrier! Try, have fun, and even if you don't succeed, you have something you've written that you can continue on in the future.

I finally created mine on the website and wrote my synopsis. Now its time to start writing! Anyone have any music they find particularly inspiring?

My name is MissBritt on Nano. How do we get on the widget thingy in the first post?