NaNoWriMo Check

[hobgoblinn]

Hey friends,

Especially antennapedia, xdawnfirex (as Rainne), clavally, nemaihne, father_turtle (as Nathan Blackpen):

Are any of you Not planning to do Nano this year? It's in its 10th year. I'm not going to win, but I think I'm going to participate and commit to writing almost every night, except when my Beloved is here, when I'm sure I can find other uses for my typing fingers....

Oh, sorry. TMI. I ask the people above because they're on my Nano page as friends and it's depressing not to see their word counts get above 0 all month. Any friends who are participating this year, let me know and I'll add you. I'm hobgoblinn, there as well as here.

And Wee Hobgoblinn is getting a Young Writer's Program account (with my email as the contact point, so I can keep an eye on what he does-- I also have his password. Hey, he's 13. And long time readers of this journal know all about his questionable judgement. But I want him to do stuff like this, if he wants to try.) Anyone who wants to leave him encouragement through the month, comment on my journal and I'll see he gets the message.

Also, anybody seen anything from mini_nanowrimo or wrisomifu lately? I do want to sign up for the lower word count versions, as I'm more likely to hit those this year.

And for anybody who's curious, I'm planning to do just what i did last year, if not as obsessively. Which is write on things I need to, switching among several stories as I get logjammed on one. I won't tell Chris Baty if you don't. You got the early drafts of In Loco Parentis out of last year's Nano, when I hit the wall on the Lost boys Sequel-- I hope this year to get both a lot closer to finished.

Comments

[veradee.livejournal.com]

I tried to do NaNoWriMo once in 2006 and failed miserably. The idea to write a certain amount words every day, particularly if I don't really know where my story's going, doesn't really work for me. But writing (or at least working somehow on a fic) for a certain amount of time each day, as wrisomifu suggests it, seems rather reasonable to me. Perhaps I should give it a try.

[clavally.livejournal.com]

Well, I certainly intend to do it. The funny thing is, I think I just might actually do it, too.

I like your take on it, mind if I adopt it?

[father-turtle.livejournal.com]

I haven't decided. If I do it, it's going to be my autobiography, which isn't, technically speaking, a novel. However, there's always enough fiction in biography and even autobiography to make a case for using NaNo time for it. We'll see.

[lady-clover.livejournal.com]

I'm considering it, but am being pulled in so many different directions right now. Not a very good excuse, because aren't we all?

Do you mind if I friend you over there? Can't believe it's that time of year already!

[emelye-miller.livejournal.com]

I'm a definite maybe.