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[Doomblade187]

Hello all. This will be our home on the forums for the 2013 NaNoWriMo season, I suppose.

If you have anything you want me to put on the OP, just ask, and I'll get around to it.

If you don't know what NaNoWriMo is/are new to it, look below:

Spoiler: All You Really Need to Know About NaNoWriMo (click to show/hide)

In case this is new and confusing to anyone:

NaNoWrimo stands for National Novel Writing Month, and is this increasingly huge community-driven contest/challenge to write 50,000 words, a novel, in the month of November. There's great resources and tools on the actual site, and real-life gatherings in most major cities where you can go and write, talk about writing, and imbibe ludicrous quantities of coffee and tea.

But hang on... November is 2 weeks away! Why am I jumping the gun with this post?

Planning. I'm sure loads have started Nano on the day, or even day two or three and still finished. But if you have time to think about what you're writing and properly plan it out, it's a lot less headache inducing than getting to page 54 and trying to find the PERFECT name for the supersecret hidden castle of doom that houses the main antagonist. After 73 hours of sleep deprivation and a 3-quart mug of java.

(Edited the quote for time of year. If there's an IRC channel, someone tell me about it so I can post it up.)

Links of Note:
nanowrimo.org
nanocountdown.com

Spoiler: Writing Tracker Widgets (From those who want them up here) (click to show/hide)

Sappho

[monk12]

Last year I only got ~32k words into my novel. This year, my goal is to add 50k to that work, or finish the book, whatever comes first. It bends the rules, yes, but I'd like to actually finish something for once in my life

On the plus side, while last year I only had a working title ("Stuff Happens and Junk") this time around I have a legit title: "Harald the Hero." Still a little underwhelming, but it fits the plot and is probably the best title I'll come up with.

[Skyrunner]

I want to write, but I'm not sure I can~ x3

[Xantalos]

I'll ... try.

[Darkmere]

Never done this because I've never had the forethought or free time to prep ahead. I'll try and put in at least an attempt this time around. Nothing lost by trying, right?

[Willfor]

I'm a little too busy writing my novel to participate in Nano this year.

... wait. O_o;

[lue]

Should I try this? I have almost five started novels* in ~/latex/books (and two more in ~/latex/books/OLDSERIES), none of which I particularly care to finish up as a NaNoWriMo thing. I have written one short-short story in full, and another barely started.

I've also a charter of a fake secret organization written up that I wrote during the last couple of months of high school last year, the organization being prime novel material. Part of me says "YES GO FOR IT", while the rest of me says "you'll be bored in a week".

I think I might just go for it, but if anyone reading this can predict how much joy I'd derive from this, that would be swell.

*and four more not-novels.

[Darkmere]

Should I try this?

Why not? Worst that can happen is you don't finish.

[lue]

Should I try this?

Why not? Worst that can happen is you don't finish.

That's what mind my said as I was writing that post

[Descan]

i'm gonna put a post here saying i'll do this and forget about it in a week

[sjm9876]

Was already planning to do this. First time, but looking forward to the inevitable sleep deprivation.

[NobodyPro]

November? Damn you exams!

Maybe I can hammer out something rough-edged in six days.

[Sappho]

I tried once before and didn't finish. This year I'm more determined. I've got lots of Neil Gaiman quotes lying around to keep me going.

"If you only write when you're inspired, you might make a fairly decent poet, but you will never be a novelist."

I've started and never finished many novels. I have finished many short stories but almost none worth publishing - they all needed more work and I get bored and forget about projects too easily. It's time I finished something. I have some notes and a very loose plan. I'll keep thinking about it and see what I come up with.

[Digital Hellhound]

The part of my brain that wants to do NaNo is slowly overpowering the part that knows it's not a good idea. I expect this to only get worse as November approaches.

[USEC_OFFICER]

I tried NaNoWriMo last year but didn't get very far besides a lot of universe building (which I love, so eh). Hopefully I'll do better this year!