Daily Introduction Thread - November 1st

[alison-sky.livejournal.com]

POST YOUR INTRODUCTIONS TO THE COMMUNITY HERE!

daily intro threads end on November 5th. Say hello now or forever hold your peace...


also - if this is your first time here, take a moment to look at the following:

2008 Community Rules - read them if you haven't.

2008 NaNo LJ'er Regional Friending Thread!

2008 Pimp and Post Thread - talk about your projects here!

Weekly Plot Help Threads - help your fellow community members with their plots!

Comments

[shiny-rosie.livejournal.com]

Hi! *waves* My name is Meg, this is my third Nano, I've never won before so I'm hoping this is the year! I'm looking forward to hanging out here at this community and getting to share this year's Nano with a bunch of fellow crazies! :) Happy Writing!!!

[emmypenny.livejournal.com]

That's crazy talk! My name is Megan (go by Meg and/or Megs) and this is also my third year and I have also never won.

HIGH FIVE! Let's go for the win!

[azuremonkey.livejournal.com]

Hello! I'm azuremonkey. This is my first year doing NaNo officially by joining the comms and dedicating myself to a word count and all that. I'm very nervous because I am not a *fast* writer and typica on any writing day, I deleted about half the words I've written.

Maybe during NaNo I shouldn't do that last part! :P

[dieteeniescum.livejournal.com]

Dirtiest cheat I did last time I tried NaNo: instead of deleting scenes or words, I either struck through them or made the font light gray instead of black. Helps the word count loads, and I had the scenes there if I wanted to incorporate them back in. ;)

[iftherainstops.livejournal.com]

Hi, I'm Audra! This is my second attempt, but really I consider it my first since I never made it past developing last year. I blame the job I had just started the last week of October. I am hopefully even though I don't know what I'll be writing. I think it'll be the same as what I had last year.

[saltintheoven.livejournal.com]

Hey! I'm Elly. This is my first year - I only learned what it was last year, and I can't quite remember if I was too late to do it or just lazy. At any rate, I decided yesterday to do NaNo this year, totally on a whim (which is the best possible reason, am I right?) but in spite of rushing headlong into disaster, I'm really excited and ready to write. Tomorrow.

Anyway, I hope to have fun, meet some awesome folks here, and get to 50,000 words before the end of this week.

The last one is negotiable.

[xanath.livejournal.com]

Hi!

I'm Xanath. I've taken part in NaNoWriMo since . . . geez, I think it was back in 1999. I'm getting old. ;) Anyway, I started a couple of good manuscripts that I'm still tinkering on, and thought I'd try a new idea to see what happens.

[princessstarr.livejournal.com]

*pops in* I've been meaning to do this sooner- work takes up way too much of my brain space.

Hi, I'm Laura, and this is my fourth Nano. I won my first year, but school took up years 2 & 3. I'm hoping I'll be able to actually FINISH my Nano this year.

Good luck, everyone!

[sga-mckay.livejournal.com]

Hi! I'm me (and by me I mean nanogirl2008). I'm in it to win it this year. I've been doing it since '06. And...well, I'm all kinds of crazy. I'm a social writer but this year I'm going to write without the internet and see if it helps so I'll only be online for word wars and the like.

Peace and good luck to all.
..v.(^_^)

[thatssorad.livejournal.com]

Hey there *waves* I'm Amara, and this is my second NaNo. I didn't make it past 15K last year despite a pretty solid amount of pre-planning, so this year I'm hoping lack of too much pre-planning will do just the opposite :D


Good luck, all! :]

[nanonano.livejournal.com]

Hi! I've been doing Nano since 2002. I've won every year so far. I'd like keep that streak going, if I haven't jinxed myself already.

[lysdexicmun.livejournal.com]

Oh my god, your icon is wiiiiiiiiiiiiin.

<333

[pixiemarie.livejournal.com]

Hi, my name is Rae, and I am often sleep deprived. This is my fourth year doing nanowrimo, and I'm sacrificing small animals to whoever is listening in hopes that they will grant me the inspiration to actually finish this year. Okay, so not really, but I am hoping really, really hard that I'll make it to 50,000 for once.

Looking forward to meeting you all! :D

[mteson.livejournal.com]

I'm Marcelo, this is my first year, and I'm excited to give it a shot!

[lizwontcry.livejournal.com]

Hi, y'all. Liz, 29, this is my seventh (?!) year to do this. I've made it 4 times, failed it twice. I think I can make it this year if I don't let the internet eat my soul.

[dannipet.livejournal.com]

Hello everyone. My name's Danni. ^^; I've been writing fanfiction for awhile but I haven't ever really had the drive to sit down and write something of my own creation. Here's hoping that's going to change.

This is my first ever NaNo, and I'm a bit scared. :3

[ruth-the-sleuth.livejournal.com]

Hey all! This is my third year participating and my first year actually believing that I can finish. (Belief--that's all you need. Really!) I'm a college student in Portland, Oregon and I'm writing a book set in the area, with the plot and basic themes already pretty well sketched out. Of course, compared to the writing part, that's cake...

cake or death? Easy decision, right?

[bluesunsets.livejournal.com]

Hi, I'm Taryn, and this is my second year doing Nano. Though I'd like to think of it as my first as last year I didn't exactly plan and I didn't finish at all, whereas this year I've planned some of it, have a support system that I know will help me out when I am in a rut, and I have direction, which I greatly lacked last year.

I just hope I can stick to one thing this month. XP.

[trek-girl42.livejournal.com]

*waves* I'm Kait, this is my second NaNo, I won last year and this year I'm writing the sequel, with the added challenge of juggling my multiple short stories other other writings for five university courses, exams, and working part time.

I'll be lucky to get to 10,000 this year. :P

[nanowendy.livejournal.com]

Hi, I'm Wendy. I haven't attempted since 2005, thanks to college and two full-time jobs. Now that I have a diploma and only one full-time job, I should be able to do something with this.

Just so y'all know, I have 1,000 words already and I have NO IDEA what I'm going to write about. I have no plot. I have two characters' names, two unseen characters and Boston for the setting. I may be screwed before I already get started.

[writergurlscrn.livejournal.com]

My name is Lizet, I occasionally go by Writer Gurl. This is my first time participating in NaNo but I've been writing for nearly 7 years. I started out with in fanfic and slowly have been trying to get out of it and into more mainstream writing.

I'll be balancing writing between going to school full time, working part time...and taking public transportation lol

that's pretty much me

[moonlitxmelody.livejournal.com]

Hi! I go by the name Kanashii when it comes to writing, this is my first NaNo and I'm totally psyched to park my butt here in this comm for a month with others who are just as insane as I am! Power to the crazy!!! Wooooooo!!!!

I'm writing in the horror genre, I'm determined to win and I really hope to meet some NaNo friends for life!!! *beams around at everybody*

Aahh well enough babbling for me! I need to go get writing!!!!!

*waves* GOOD LUCK ALL WRIMOS!!!!!!! WE CAN DO IT!!!!!!!

[xlost-highwayx.livejournal.com]

Hi! I go by Beauty online. This is going to be my first year participating in NaNo, after the not so subtle hints dropped by an online friend of mine that it's a great experience. I've wanted to join before, but always forgot before October even rolled around. I'm currently in school, but I'm taking next semester off to scrounge up some money for a move from Missouri to Washington state. Thankfully NaNo comes before all of that or I would never get anything done.

Anyway...I'll stop my rambling. I should be working on my very plotless novel. I've yet to get anything down and it's ben four hours! So, good luck to everyone else!

[graycatbird.livejournal.com]

hey there fellow writers... i'm trish. and i'm already hooked!
this is my first year and a friend of mine mentioned it to me last night! i've heard of this before, but was never in a place in my life where i could dedicate time and energy to it! this year i am.
i'm not sure how much to post in this intro.. :) i live on my own with my son (95% of the time he lives with me..), i work part time and am just enjoying my life on my own (as i'm separated) and have recently moved into my own place. :) my genre is erotic fiction :) ok! heh! time to go write as the Muses are calling!

[kelene.livejournal.com]

Hey, Jenn here. This is my third nano, hopefully my first win. Wrote my first 750 words last night when the clock ticked into November 1st, and am off to write some more.
I'm a third year uni student and have a part time job, so it's pretty hectic around here.
Anyway, good luck guys!

[matty1992.livejournal.com]

Hey, I'm Mat. this is my second year doing NaNo. I won with just over 100,000 words last year but I'm not aiming quite so high this year.

However, I am getting ahead early, hence being at nearly 14,000 words. It's because I have exams in the middle of the month, which means that I want at least 50,000 words by the 15th. Yes, I am panicking a little.

Anyway, add Insanityabounds on the NaNoWriMo website. that's me. Nice to meet all of you guys. ^^

[neth-dugan.livejournal.com]

I'm Neth and this is my first one. Signed up several years ago but then did nothing - not going to do that this year. Don't know if I'll make it but here's hoping.

[wonderlandwords.livejournal.com]

Hello, I'm Alice. This is my first time participating, and I'm kinda nervous~ I go through writing spurts, but unfortunately I never actually finish anything. u_u() I'm hoping that participating in NaNoWriMo will help me complete something!