nanowrimo_lj | Greetings & A Link & An Offer (Reply)

The greetings: Hi folks. I'm Dreama and I've just discovered this community, though this will be my fifth NaNoWriMo. I'm 4-0 thus far, four novels written (even in 2003 when I ended up in the hospital having emergency surgery during Thanksgiving week, which sucked mightily, I assure you) and this year, I'm going for the challenge of NaNo-ing with a new baby. I've decided that NaNoWriMo is my personal version of masochism; forget chains and whips, give me a 30 day deadline to whip out 50,000 coherent words!

The link: This has helped me a lot over the years of NaNoing, I follow this basic structure every year: Outline Your Novel in 30 Minutes by Alicia Rasley. If you have a basic idea about plot and characters, this will definitely help you to take that idea and turn it into the framework of an actual novel.

The offer: Every year, I whip up desktop wallpaper calendars with a daily word count. In addition to a general one for average NaNo'ers, I do one for NaNo'ers like myself who are observant Jews who don't write sundown Friday to sundown Saturday. (Because we like extra challenges like that.) I normally put the wallpapers up on my wallpaper site (natch) but since my website is offline for the time being, I can't do that this year. If people are interested, though, I can certainly share them here for folks to download.

Please comment if you'd be interested; if people aren't, I won't bother with the general version, because frankly, they're a lot of work!