I wasn't going to...

[ivymere.livejournal.com]

I wasn't going to do Nano this year!!!!

**sighs deeply** I'm just so incredibly busy with projects (personal or otherwise) but yet, I am incredibly tempted to change my mind.

Tonight (hehe, my all nighter for no good reason), I was depressed so I decided to cheer myself up with things that worked during Nanowrimo...and it worked! Listening to bananaphone rocked but most of all, simply revisiting the forums brought back the memories and happy craziness and the frenzied madness that I love so much about Nano. Damn, I want to do it again!

Now, will someone tell me how, IF I DO IT, I'm going to handle 2 jobs, being a full-time student, weekly badminton practices, a health project for my mother, and various other unfinished business if I have to be spewing out 1,667 words a day for 30 days???

How I'm going to handle without collapsing from stress, I mean. While I realize this is a normal event, I do not wish to go through that horribly miserable, achy body feeling I had to live with last November.

I wasn't going to...

[ivymere.livejournal.com]

I wasn't going to do Nano this year!!!!

**sighs deeply** I'm just so incredibly busy with projects (personal or otherwise) but yet, I am incredibly tempted to change my mind.

Tonight (hehe, my all nighter for no good reason), I was depressed so I decided to cheer myself up with things that worked during Nanowrimo...and it worked! Listening to bananaphone rocked but most of all, simply revisiting the forums brought back the memories and happy craziness and the frenzied madness that I love so much about Nano. Damn, I want to do it again!

Now, will someone tell me how, IF I DO IT, I'm going to handle 2 jobs, being a full-time student, weekly badminton practices, a health project for my mother, and various other unfinished business if I have to be spewing out 1,667 words a day for 30 days???

How I'm going to handle without collapsing from stress, I mean. While I realize this is a normal event, I do not wish to go through that horribly miserable, achy body feeling I had to live with last November.

SE NC NaNoers...

[deza.livejournal.com]

I'll be hosting a series of write-ins during November at the Cliffdale Public Library in Fayetteville, NC. If you're interested in attending, let me know and I'll get in touch with the specifics. Or you can just come by the library homepage at http://www.cumberland.lib.nc.us/ and check our calendar of events for specific times. We'll be having a getting-to-know-your-NaNo meeting in October.

If you don't live in geographic proximity, feel free to go to your local public library and ask them about writer's group meetings. They may surprise you. ;)

SE NC NaNoers...

[deza.livejournal.com]

I'll be hosting a series of write-ins during November at the Cliffdale Public Library in Fayetteville, NC. If you're interested in attending, let me know and I'll get in touch with the specifics. Or you can just come by the library homepage at http://www.cumberland.lib.nc.us/ and check our calendar of events for specific times. We'll be having a getting-to-know-your-NaNo meeting in October.

If you don't live in geographic proximity, feel free to go to your local public library and ask them about writer's group meetings. They may surprise you. ;)

(no subject)

[watchmebe.livejournal.com]

I've finally decided what I'll do for nano this year...

I have a novel right now that I'm about to start shopping to agents. This year for nano I'm going to do the prequel, which will probably never need to be published, but I think would be excellent for me as a writer to have.

I want my nano shirt! Now! And my coffee cup! And for this whole thing to start!

(no subject)

[watchmebe.livejournal.com]

I've finally decided what I'll do for nano this year...

I have a novel right now that I'm about to start shopping to agents. This year for nano I'm going to do the prequel, which will probably never need to be published, but I think would be excellent for me as a writer to have.

I want my nano shirt! Now! And my coffee cup! And for this whole thing to start!

Hee.

[sandraregina.livejournal.com]

So, NaNoWriMo '05 is just about a month away. I've had this novel idea kicking around in my head since about February. I had a few false starts and then gave it up, leaving it to percolate in the back of my brain. Several months have passed, and I still want to write it. I am taking this as a good sign.

I am hoping that some of you guys can help me out, though. The main theme of the novel is isolation - pure, soul-numbing, psychosis-inducing isolation. Yeah. Going for a really fun, light-hearted theme, here. I am looking for help in finding songs, poems, paintings, tv shows, movies, etc - anything 'pop culture' - that provides a good illustration of isolation (social, physical, mental). Not for me to read and get inspiration from (I'm pulling a great deal from my own feelings during depressive episodes for that), but for the character to quote and/or reference, and/or to be 'playing in the background'. Obscure is just fine.

Thanks.

Hee.

[sandraregina.livejournal.com]

So, NaNoWriMo '05 is just about a month away. I've had this novel idea kicking around in my head since about February. I had a few false starts and then gave it up, leaving it to percolate in the back of my brain. Several months have passed, and I still want to write it. I am taking this as a good sign.

I am hoping that some of you guys can help me out, though. The main theme of the novel is isolation - pure, soul-numbing, psychosis-inducing isolation. Yeah. Going for a really fun, light-hearted theme, here. I am looking for help in finding songs, poems, paintings, tv shows, movies, etc - anything 'pop culture' - that provides a good illustration of isolation (social, physical, mental). Not for me to read and get inspiration from (I'm pulling a great deal from my own feelings during depressive episodes for that), but for the character to quote and/or reference, and/or to be 'playing in the background'. Obscure is just fine.

Thanks.

I know what I'm going to write!

[alexabexis.livejournal.com]

And it's not what I've been mulling over for the past year. Last October I heard about Nanowrimo and began seriously fleshing out an idea I'd been kicking around for ages. Then I started thinking about another idea, but because I had planned the first one so thoroughly I set the the new one on the back burner and labeled it, "Next Year." I've put in time all year on this idea, because it's a fantasy story, something I've never really worked on for a lengthy period of time. I've been making notes, and drawings, and character sheets. There are still a lot of things I need to figure out for it, but I thought, well, I still have a month.

But I just recently started reading No Plot? No Problem!, and it's made me re-evaluate how I'm approaching this. And last night on the train, it hit me. (An idea, not the train.) I'm not going to write about the story, the characters that have been brewing in my head for over a year. I've already planned it too much. Yes, it's a story I want to tell, but having everything planned from start to finish made it kind of difficult last year when I started to go crazy in Weeks 2 and 3. I got bored trying to get my characters from point to point, bored writing the in-between scenes that are necessary but not always the most exciting to write.

So I'm setting aside what I've been planning so carefully. And I'm going to write about the guy who sells me sandwiches. I've been making up stories about this salad/sandwich place near my job for ages. I have all these theories about the people who work there, and every so often I work up the nerve to ask them something. (I do go there every other day, after all. Apparently they call me "the lady." Not sure how I feel about that.) I'm fascinated by these people, this place, by the family that I'm convinced runs it. So I'm going to take this spark of an idea and run with it. It was an epiphany of James Joyce-ian proportions, and it grabbed me while I sat on the subway at 10pm. It was liberating, and eye-opening, and it's been there all along. So I know what I'm going to write, but not exactly what I'm going to write, and instead of being terrifying it feels wonderful.

( And after all that, I might as well introduce myself )

I know what I'm going to write!

[alexabexis.livejournal.com]

And it's not what I've been mulling over for the past year. Last October I heard about Nanowrimo and began seriously fleshing out an idea I'd been kicking around for ages. Then I started thinking about another idea, but because I had planned the first one so thoroughly I set the the new one on the back burner and labeled it, "Next Year." I've put in time all year on this idea, because it's a fantasy story, something I've never really worked on for a lengthy period of time. I've been making notes, and drawings, and character sheets. There are still a lot of things I need to figure out for it, but I thought, well, I still have a month.

But I just recently started reading No Plot? No Problem!, and it's made me re-evaluate how I'm approaching this. And last night on the train, it hit me. (An idea, not the train.) I'm not going to write about the story, the characters that have been brewing in my head for over a year. I've already planned it too much. Yes, it's a story I want to tell, but having everything planned from start to finish made it kind of difficult last year when I started to go crazy in Weeks 2 and 3. I got bored trying to get my characters from point to point, bored writing the in-between scenes that are necessary but not always the most exciting to write.

So I'm setting aside what I've been planning so carefully. And I'm going to write about the guy who sells me sandwiches. I've been making up stories about this salad/sandwich place near my job for ages. I have all these theories about the people who work there, and every so often I work up the nerve to ask them something. (I do go there every other day, after all. Apparently they call me "the lady." Not sure how I feel about that.) I'm fascinated by these people, this place, by the family that I'm convinced runs it. So I'm going to take this spark of an idea and run with it. It was an epiphany of James Joyce-ian proportions, and it grabbed me while I sat on the subway at 10pm. It was liberating, and eye-opening, and it's been there all along. So I know what I'm going to write, but not exactly what I'm going to write, and instead of being terrifying it feels wonderful.

( And after all that, I might as well introduce myself )

Canadian Write-Ins

[angelfish-82.livejournal.com]

I'm in Winnipeg, Manitoba and have no clue if anyone's heard of NaNo out here. Are there any people out here from the city or surrounding towns who'd like to come in for a Write-In during November? I'll ask at the libraries or the book stores this afternoon if I have time. But I'm always up for LJ or MSN buds to help me keep on track (and not kill myself when my plotbunny runs away)! ;) Feel free to friend me if you want to chat! :)

Canadian Write-Ins

[angelfish-82.livejournal.com]

I'm in Winnipeg, Manitoba and have no clue if anyone's heard of NaNo out here. Are there any people out here from the city or surrounding towns who'd like to come in for a Write-In during November? I'll ask at the libraries or the book stores this afternoon if I have time. But I'm always up for LJ or MSN buds to help me keep on track (and not kill myself when my plotbunny runs away)! ;) Feel free to friend me if you want to chat! :)

2002 Winner's Icon???

[suibhne-geilt.livejournal.com]

Hello, all

So far, I'm a 3-time NaNo winner. Woo! The problem is, I was too html-clueless back in 2002 to successfully save the little LJ-usable winner's icon. It's the year they used the cute little computer-screen icons.

I've got my 2003 & 2004 icons, and I want to put them together into an animated gif to show the world how much of a dork I am.

Anybody out there happen to have a 2002 winner's icon I could copy?

2002 Winner's Icon???

[suibhne-geilt.livejournal.com]

Hello, all

So far, I'm a 3-time NaNo winner. Woo! The problem is, I was too html-clueless back in 2002 to successfully save the little LJ-usable winner's icon. It's the year they used the cute little computer-screen icons.

I've got my 2003 & 2004 icons, and I want to put them together into an animated gif to show the world how much of a dork I am.

Anybody out there happen to have a 2002 winner's icon I could copy?

(no subject)

[watchmebe.livejournal.com]

I have a Spanish test at 3. I've opened the book twice. I'm going to fail it horribly.
But instead I'm playing with my query letter.
*skips away happily with nothing more than the phrase "Me gusta taco"

...here it is, so when you pass me poor and homeless on the street after I fail out of Spanish and don't graduate college you'll know why:

( Read more... )

(no subject)

[watchmebe.livejournal.com]

I have a Spanish test at 3. I've opened the book twice. I'm going to fail it horribly.
But instead I'm playing with my query letter.
*skips away happily with nothing more than the phrase "Me gusta taco"

...here it is, so when you pass me poor and homeless on the street after I fail out of Spanish and don't graduate college you'll know why:

( Read more... )

Is NaNo worth the cost of friendship?

[larinzia.livejournal.com]

So, has anyone else found themselves jumping everytime someone mentions the IPod Nano? I have a co-worker who has been discussing (ad nauseum) his possible purchase and I've joined the conversation TWICE now without realizing that they were talking about Nano (second 'n' being small) and not NaNo (second 'n' capitalized). Silly Lar! All I wanted to do was discuss my favorite activity!

As this is my third year doing NaNo, I've been talking it up more than in the previous years. Last year, I convinced two or three people to join. This year, I've brought out the big guns. I've taken to brow-beating people into joining. A part of me feels bad but the other part doesn't. Now, the one I feel the worst about is also the one that SHOULD have been doing this with me for the last two years. She's a lazy writer, much like me, who really just needs a swift kick to the pants to get her motivated. I've let her stew the last few years, making her read my NaNo attempts as punishment. This year, I did the unthinkable...I told her mother she should join. Horrible, I know, but understandable. I finally got her to attempt that she was scared of the goal, of the work, of her talent. That makes me happy. Those kind of excuses are workable.

For my birthday present (it was yesterday), she wrote in the card that she couldn't afford to buy me a present so she's doing NaNo. I got my wish. Now I have two months of "cheerleading" ahead because I know this isn't going to be easy.

But I did ask for this!

All hail NaNo!

Is NaNo worth the cost of friendship?

[larinzia.livejournal.com]

So, has anyone else found themselves jumping everytime someone mentions the IPod Nano? I have a co-worker who has been discussing (ad nauseum) his possible purchase and I've joined the conversation TWICE now without realizing that they were talking about Nano (second 'n' being small) and not NaNo (second 'n' capitalized). Silly Lar! All I wanted to do was discuss my favorite activity!

As this is my third year doing NaNo, I've been talking it up more than in the previous years. Last year, I convinced two or three people to join. This year, I've brought out the big guns. I've taken to brow-beating people into joining. A part of me feels bad but the other part doesn't. Now, the one I feel the worst about is also the one that SHOULD have been doing this with me for the last two years. She's a lazy writer, much like me, who really just needs a swift kick to the pants to get her motivated. I've let her stew the last few years, making her read my NaNo attempts as punishment. This year, I did the unthinkable...I told her mother she should join. Horrible, I know, but understandable. I finally got her to attempt that she was scared of the goal, of the work, of her talent. That makes me happy. Those kind of excuses are workable.

For my birthday present (it was yesterday), she wrote in the card that she couldn't afford to buy me a present so she's doing NaNo. I got my wish. Now I have two months of "cheerleading" ahead because I know this isn't going to be easy.

But I did ask for this!

All hail NaNo!

I might be crazy...

[zelthian.livejournal.com]

Has anyone ever written a book out of order? That is, starting off with a chapter other than chapter 1?

I have a very clear idea how I want a particular scene in the book to happen. I'm resisting letting my mind work out dialogue, because if I do, then I have to write it down, then I'm breaking the rules. :) The scene in my mind is in the very last part of the book, which means I would, in essence, be writing the last chapter first.

Am I nuts?

I might be crazy...

[zelthian.livejournal.com]

Has anyone ever written a book out of order? That is, starting off with a chapter other than chapter 1?

I have a very clear idea how I want a particular scene in the book to happen. I'm resisting letting my mind work out dialogue, because if I do, then I have to write it down, then I'm breaking the rules. :) The scene in my mind is in the very last part of the book, which means I would, in essence, be writing the last chapter first.

Am I nuts?

(no subject)

[raincloudboy.livejournal.com]

How's this for a title?

The Kindness of Strangers
And other strange phenomena

Is the "strange" redundant because of the word "strangers"? I think the subtitle is a bit stupid, but the title on its own has been used at least like 3 times before.

(no subject)

[raincloudboy.livejournal.com]

How's this for a title?

The Kindness of Strangers
And other strange phenomena

Is the "strange" redundant because of the word "strangers"? I think the subtitle is a bit stupid, but the title on its own has been used at least like 3 times before.