Um... intro?

[writersbane.livejournal.com]

Hello everyone. My handle is writersbane (here and on the Nano forums) and this will be my second year doing a Nano novel. Last year I didn't get very lucky and had to quit halfway through, but I hope I'll have better luck this year.

If you want to know me better: I am 18 years old, just started online college classes at Colorado Techinal University, and want nothing more out of life but to read, write, and eat mass amounts of pocky. I have delved into writing many genre's, but my forte tends to lend itself toward fantasy, horror (mainly involving vampires, and not the Twilight kind), and mystery.

For this year's Nano I had originally planed a rendition of Journey to the West, but I have ending up with something a bit different. It was inspired by Kazuya Minekura's Gensoumaden Saiyuki manga series and is a book in a mystery series I am planning. The MC is a Private Investiator who used to work as a police detective. Most might think this woud be enough of a description, but no.

She is not only a PI, but an SI, a Special Investigator. Meaning? She's like a PI and a police detective without haveing to stay withon the strict confines of the law. Yes, crime has gotten that bad. It's set in the (kind of) near future, so expect some new tech.

Did I mention she's a cat-girl?

Um... intro?

[writersbane.livejournal.com]

Hello everyone. My handle is writersbane (here and on the Nano forums) and this will be my second year doing a Nano novel. Last year I didn't get very lucky and had to quit halfway through, but I hope I'll have better luck this year.

If you want to know me better: I am 18 years old, just started online college classes at Colorado Techinal University, and want nothing more out of life but to read, write, and eat mass amounts of pocky. I have delved into writing many genre's, but my forte tends to lend itself toward fantasy, horror (mainly involving vampires, and not the Twilight kind), and mystery.

For this year's Nano I had originally planed a rendition of Journey to the West, but I have ending up with something a bit different. It was inspired by Kazuya Minekura's Gensoumaden Saiyuki manga series and is a book in a mystery series I am planning. The MC is a Private Investiator who used to work as a police detective. Most might think this woud be enough of a description, but no.

She is not only a PI, but an SI, a Special Investigator. Meaning? She's like a PI and a police detective without haveing to stay withon the strict confines of the law. Yes, crime has gotten that bad. It's set in the (kind of) near future, so expect some new tech.

Did I mention she's a cat-girl?

Alright, time for my intro . . .

[orangetango.livejournal.com]

I'm a 24-year-old research analyst living in Austin, TX. This will be my 4th year competing in NaNo, and hopefully my 1st win (I blame the last three non-wins on the fact that college and grad school ate my life in November). In addition to my day job and NaNo, I'm an avid yoga student, and I also study ballet. Plus, I spend a lot of time with my degus (one of which is featured in my userpic).


It's always difficult for me to talk about major novel plot points/ideas so early on . . . I'm still outlining. I guess the coolest thing about my novel, and the thing I'm most interested in talking about, is that I'm attepting to write it without using any gender pronouns, and using only gender-neutral names. Coming up with the names was actually not all that difficult. I didn't use a baby name book or anything; I just generated them on my own. But writing the novel without making gender references will be a challenge. Still, it's one I'm looking forward to.

I'm outlining pretty heavily - this is the first year I've made an outline, and I think it's going to really help. I'm doing research on things, too. Spoiler: one of my characters will die! But this is requiring me to learn something about Ohio estate law (my home state and the setting for the novel), for reasons I'm not yet interested in divulging . . . Anyway, reading about estate law is BORING. But at least when it comes time to use that knowledge in the story, I won't look like an idiot. it will pay off!

That's about it for now!

intro and questions

[serenitysoars.livejournal.com]

Hi. I've never done Nano before. I've wanted to but November never allowed me to write that month.
I'm 35 and a homeschool mom, plus we run a business out of our home. But this year I think I can do it.

I have a book that I must write. I can hardly stand another day of my life going by without writing it. (Dramatic enough?) It's true. I have had the idea for 12 years, but I have no intention of using any of the old attempts, and probably don't have anymore than 3 pages to scrap.

Yesterday the characters starting doing new things in my head, and I love what they are up to! If I do Nano, I guess that means I must encourage them to furnish my imagination until November 1st, or write this novel in October, so I'll be all set to do something fresh in November. Hah! Not likely.

But, what I want to know is, if I hold off on writing that first page, or any page, until November 1, can I do research on it now? I need to research so much. It's historical fiction set in ancient Canaan. I need to learn about prostitution, gambling, date wine production, sheep shearing, houses, and food in ancient Canaan.

This novel demands it be written. I must yield to it's demands. If it can't work for my Nano novel, then I can't do Nano.

I like the idea of Nano because I'm a sucker for deadlines; I love what they do to me. *snicker* (And the fact that the effect of deadlines is only temporary.)

Thoughts? Suggestions?

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[kilobites.livejournal.com]

Hey there everybody. I'm Tasha, and this will be my third year attempting NaNo. I won in 2007, and didn't win in 2006, so I figure this year I have a 50/50 chance of getting my word count. I'm in college, and slightly worried that that will make it more difficult to find time to write (who am I kidding, I know it will) but I am going to really push myself and just stay up all night if I have to to get that word count to 50,000.

It seems like I only write when I'm doing NaNo. Probably because I love to do word wars, but during the rest of the year there aren't a ton of opportunities for doing them. I have such a strong internal editor that when I write during the rest of the year, I end up erasing more than I write!

Oh, my NaNo idea this year? As for that, I'm probably going to be doing a World War II historical fiction about a Nazi soldier. I'm having a really hard time plotting all of this, but I do know what my main character is going to look like, and what his name is. Other than that though, mostly all I've done is research on the German army during World War II. I figure the plot will come later, and even if it doesn't, I can ramble for 50,000 words.

I'm Sark over on the official NaNo forums, and I'd love more friends!

=)

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[kilobites.livejournal.com]

Hey there everybody. I'm Tasha, and this will be my third year attempting NaNo. I won in 2007, and didn't win in 2006, so I figure this year I have a 50/50 chance of getting my word count. I'm in college, and slightly worried that that will make it more difficult to find time to write (who am I kidding, I know it will) but I am going to really push myself and just stay up all night if I have to to get that word count to 50,000.

It seems like I only write when I'm doing NaNo. Probably because I love to do word wars, but during the rest of the year there aren't a ton of opportunities for doing them. I have such a strong internal editor that when I write during the rest of the year, I end up erasing more than I write!

Oh, my NaNo idea this year? As for that, I'm probably going to be doing a World War II historical fiction about a Nazi soldier. I'm having a really hard time plotting all of this, but I do know what my main character is going to look like, and what his name is. Other than that though, mostly all I've done is research on the German army during World War II. I figure the plot will come later, and even if it doesn't, I can ramble for 50,000 words.

I'm Sark over on the official NaNo forums, and I'd love more friends!

=)

Intro

[foxtrot-sierra.livejournal.com]

This'll be my second NaNoWriMo.  I finished last year in 15 days.  Due to other projects I'm working on at the same time, I plan on doing NaNoWriMo '08 in 15 days. 

I got my outline and my act-breaks and everything.  The novel will be about two friends, Reggie and Moses, living in Texas after the bombs have dropped and the only thing holding the remnants of civilization together are local warlords and roving bands of US soldiers.  The friends disagree on whether or not the world is better off this way.  Reggie has fallen in love with a warlord's haremgirl and he's too pigheaded to let her go.

I also have a subplot ready if I get to the end of the novel and I'm short 10,000 words.  A third friend (McGowan) who lives by a code of never giving or accepting favors breaks his code when he rescues a woman and child from a burning house.  The ogre who left them there to die confronts him and argues that for McGowan to set his code right again, he must kill the very people he rescued.

Intro

[foxtrot-sierra.livejournal.com]

This'll be my second NaNoWriMo.  I finished last year in 15 days.  Due to other projects I'm working on at the same time, I plan on doing NaNoWriMo '08 in 15 days. 

I got my outline and my act-breaks and everything.  The novel will be about two friends, Reggie and Moses, living in Texas after the bombs have dropped and the only thing holding the remnants of civilization together are local warlords and roving bands of US soldiers.  The friends disagree on whether or not the world is better off this way.  Reggie has fallen in love with a warlord's haremgirl and he's too pigheaded to let her go.

I also have a subplot ready if I get to the end of the novel and I'm short 10,000 words.  A third friend (McGowan) who lives by a code of never giving or accepting favors breaks his code when he rescues a woman and child from a burning house.  The ogre who left them there to die confronts him and argues that for McGowan to set his code right again, he must kill the very people he rescued.

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[nokros.livejournal.com]

Hello, all. I'm Colleen, and I've been participating in NaNo since 2002, which makes me feel old in novel-years. Of those years, I've only won twice. Kinda. After miserably failing in 2002, I attempted in MAy of 2003 and finished, so while it wasn't an official NaNo, it WAS an official novel. I officially won last year, and victory tasted delectable, and I'm up for that taste again this year. (Excuse the bad metaphors here.)

This year, I'm going to be working on a fantasy novel. Which I've totally done before, but this time I'm going to REALLY do it and work towards eventual publication. I've been working on world-building since this summer. My premise: there are two human "countries", so to speak, in this world, set up by natural boundaries, and the big one wants to conquer the small one. They're all terrified of the "non-humans" and do not stray beyond their borders. The main character, Rälena, ends up venturing beyond the borders to make contact with these others and bridge the gap, so to speak.

My DORKY stff behind this largely focuses on phonetics, and speech. I'm a theatre student and a complete and total voice and speech NERD. I'm obsessed with sounds, languages, and the International Phonetic Alphabet. My magic is based off of a code, that's basically shifting IPA sounds. Rälena, who masters it, is not naturally a magic-user (which is an almost cultish thing), and there are some tensions there. I really have gone crazy establishing languages for this. I believe that when you fully connect to your voice, you connect to something beyond yourself, that is both universal and intimately private, and I think more of that connection needs to happen. I'm basically writing Voice and Speech: the fantasy novel.

So that's me. I'm in NYC and hope to get to some events around here. I'm a student at NYU (Tisch, second year drama major at PHTS), and I'm assistant designing 2 shows that go up in November. Clearly, I'm insane, but if there are any other NYU/theatre-related NaNoers, I'm always looking for writing buddies. I'm nokros here and on the boards.

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[nokros.livejournal.com]

Hello, all. I'm Colleen, and I've been participating in NaNo since 2002, which makes me feel old in novel-years. Of those years, I've only won twice. Kinda. After miserably failing in 2002, I attempted in MAy of 2003 and finished, so while it wasn't an official NaNo, it WAS an official novel. I officially won last year, and victory tasted delectable, and I'm up for that taste again this year. (Excuse the bad metaphors here.)

This year, I'm going to be working on a fantasy novel. Which I've totally done before, but this time I'm going to REALLY do it and work towards eventual publication. I've been working on world-building since this summer. My premise: there are two human "countries", so to speak, in this world, set up by natural boundaries, and the big one wants to conquer the small one. They're all terrified of the "non-humans" and do not stray beyond their borders. The main character, Rälena, ends up venturing beyond the borders to make contact with these others and bridge the gap, so to speak.

My DORKY stff behind this largely focuses on phonetics, and speech. I'm a theatre student and a complete and total voice and speech NERD. I'm obsessed with sounds, languages, and the International Phonetic Alphabet. My magic is based off of a code, that's basically shifting IPA sounds. Rälena, who masters it, is not naturally a magic-user (which is an almost cultish thing), and there are some tensions there. I really have gone crazy establishing languages for this. I believe that when you fully connect to your voice, you connect to something beyond yourself, that is both universal and intimately private, and I think more of that connection needs to happen. I'm basically writing Voice and Speech: the fantasy novel.

So that's me. I'm in NYC and hope to get to some events around here. I'm a student at NYU (Tisch, second year drama major at PHTS), and I'm assistant designing 2 shows that go up in November. Clearly, I'm insane, but if there are any other NYU/theatre-related NaNoers, I'm always looking for writing buddies. I'm nokros here and on the boards.

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[theavengers.livejournal.com]

Right, hello there fellow NaNoers, I'm Lux and this will be my second time around with NaNo and hopefully I'll finish. My '07 attempt lasted to around 30,000 words until I lost interested and was hit with a bigger, and better idea - I really hope this doesn't happen with this one as I've outlined it from start to finish and even did a sequel outline for some obscure reason. Considering last year's train wreck of a plot had to do with vampires and werewolves (oh my!) this year has none of that nonsense but is still science fiction.

The most basic summery of the plot is two people, who have never met before in their lives find themselves thrown into a world of human weaponization, experimentation and deception with only each other to trust and how they try to survive. It's 2095 and America is no longer the world's richest country but one of the poorest and people disappear from the streets all the time.

I don't want to think how much money I'm going to end up spending in Panera soup and Starbuck's coffee to finish this but if I can get it out of my head it'll be peachy. Hopefully nothing will distract me from this story.

On NaNo my username is batman and I love new friends :]

Joining the Flood of Intros...

[mmzcreates.livejournal.com]

Hello everyone!

This is my first year attempting Nano. I'm 25 years old, I live in Tampa, Florida and I want to be writer. I decided to become a writer two years ago. But I tend to edit as I write and I can't seem to get very far in my novel.

I'm hoping Nano will help me just to write and only write. I feel the editing as I'm writing is holding me back.

My plan for November is to write a horror/supernatural novel. The idea is my head, but it just need to be iron out before I'm ready for November.

Feel free to friend me over at Nano. My user name is the same for both Livejournal and Nano.

Finally, I wish the best for everyone doing Nano.

Joining the Flood of Intros...

[mmzcreates.livejournal.com]

Hello everyone!

This is my first year attempting Nano. I'm 25 years old, I live in Tampa, Florida and I want to be writer. I decided to become a writer two years ago. But I tend to edit as I write and I can't seem to get very far in my novel.

I'm hoping Nano will help me just to write and only write. I feel the editing as I'm writing is holding me back.

My plan for November is to write a horror/supernatural novel. The idea is my head, but it just need to be iron out before I'm ready for November.

Feel free to friend me over at Nano. My user name is the same for both Livejournal and Nano.

Finally, I wish the best for everyone doing Nano.

Intro Posts Cut Off Starting Now

[alison-sky.livejournal.com]

Ok, we hit my ridiculous level today, so I'm going to be starting to bring the rules in effect starting tonight when I actually have time to make up the big rule post of doom that we all love :)

As for individual intro posts...

THEY ARE ON HOLD

Any individual intro posts that go up between now (4pm central time) and the rule posting tonight will get a nudging reminder that they are now no longer allowed to be done on an individual basis.

Starting tomorrow (I'm in TN, so I will post it before I go to bed tonight really at like 11:30pmish...) We will have a DAILY INTRO POST in which everyone who wants to introduce themselves are to reply to with their introductions. And that way others who want to meet the new people only have one place to go.

Need an example? Here's last year's tag and you can see them all.

Also, who started a nasty rumor that they were going to be banned, btw? Because I sure as hell didn't say that no one will be allowed to introduce themselves. It would just be done in a more orderly fashion. *smile*

This weekend, the GREAT LJ NANO REGIONAL FRIENDING THREAD will go live for 2008. No idea what I'm talking about? Here is last year's so you can get a sneak peak at what to expect. It has 3 pages of comments though so dialup people beware.

36 days left... who's getting nervous?

Got any questions? Leave them in comments below and I will get back to them tonight after Supernatural OMG

Intro Posts Cut Off Starting Now

[alison-sky.livejournal.com]

Ok, we hit my ridiculous level today, so I'm going to be starting to bring the rules in effect starting tonight when I actually have time to make up the big rule post of doom that we all love :)

As for individual intro posts...

THEY ARE ON HOLD

Any individual intro posts that go up between now (4pm central time) and the rule posting tonight will get a nudging reminder that they are now no longer allowed to be done on an individual basis.

Starting tomorrow (I'm in TN, so I will post it before I go to bed tonight really at like 11:30pmish...) We will have a DAILY INTRO POST in which everyone who wants to introduce themselves are to reply to with their introductions. And that way others who want to meet the new people only have one place to go.

Need an example? Here's last year's tag and you can see them all.

Also, who started a nasty rumor that they were going to be banned, btw? Because I sure as hell didn't say that no one will be allowed to introduce themselves. It would just be done in a more orderly fashion. *smile*

This weekend, the GREAT LJ NANO REGIONAL FRIENDING THREAD will go live for 2008. No idea what I'm talking about? Here is last year's so you can get a sneak peak at what to expect. It has 3 pages of comments though so dialup people beware.

36 days left... who's getting nervous?

Got any questions? Leave them in comments below and I will get back to them tonight after Supernatural OMG

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[agdhani.livejournal.com]

If this isn't allowed, feel free to delete it; just wanted to share these if anyone else needs NaNo icons

Writer's Icons

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[agdhani.livejournal.com]

If this isn't allowed, feel free to delete it; just wanted to share these if anyone else needs NaNo icons

Writer's Icons

2008 icons

[mrsdrjackson.livejournal.com]

I made a few icons to get us started in this fantastic 2008 NaNo season. :D

Fake cut to my journal.

Please enjoy!

2008 icons

[mrsdrjackson.livejournal.com]

I made a few icons to get us started in this fantastic 2008 NaNo season. :D

Fake cut to my journal.

Please enjoy!

Daily Intro Post - September 26th 2008

[alison-sky.livejournal.com]

POST YOUR INTRODUCTIONS HERE

Daily Intro Post - September 26th 2008

[alison-sky.livejournal.com]

POST YOUR INTRODUCTIONS HERE