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[jynxgirl.livejournal.com]

Daily Intro Post
Hey everyone!

Please feel free to use this post to introduce yourself to the community! Talk about yourself, what you're writing, and how excited you are!

Also, if this is your first time in the community, please take a moment to review the community rules for October here

Need some writing warm-ups? Find a link with all this year's warm-up exercises HERE!

The Regional Meetup and Friending Thread is HERE!

The Genre Friending Thread is HERE!

And remember that you can pimp your Nano LJ's and other websites in the 2009 Pimping Thread!

Chat away!

Comments

[ivor-severs.livejournal.com]

Hello everyone!
I am Ivor. I am Nano-writing for the second time (only 20 000 words in 2008, but hope to do better this year).

I am writing a love story with a lot of characters. None of them is perfect but some are trying hard, which makes them all the more screwed-up. The general mood is best conveyed with this fragment from "The Love Feast" by W.H.Auden:

"In an upper room at midnight
See us gathered on behalf
Of love according to the gospel
Of the radio-phonograph.

Lou is telling Anne what Molly
Said to Mark behind her back;
Jack likes Jill who worships George
Who has the hots for Jack..."

I hope that my crazy but heartfelt narrative will go on for the required number of words, and I wish joy and success in writing to everyone here.

Howdy

[joelabrown.livejournal.com]

Hi!

I'm Joel, live in France, and this is my sixth nanowrimo. I'm writing a fantasy mystery thriller set in an alternate history where a fae forest has covered the British Isles, revolving around a man named Daniel Therwood, a thieftaker with the strange ability to steal a person's soul.

Glad to be here!

Joel

[dexypunk.livejournal.com]

I'm Soph, I'm 24, I live in Norfolk. I'm writing about a girl trapped in an abusive cult. Trying to decide whether to bring in a bit of sacrificial slaughter for good measure.

[sanadas-sanity.livejournal.com]

Hey, I'm Bane and this is my first time doing NaNoWriMo. I'm writing about a cynical musician in another world that gets swept into a new school because of his mother's heritage. Right now, this is my first original piece of work and I'm really excited to work on it.

[wendyscalia.livejournal.com]

Greetings!

I'm Ang. I live in the US (Pacific Northwest region), am 44 years old, adore writing, and am finally putting my foot down and making the effort to try NaNoWriMo for the first time this year. I've known about it for years, just always said "next year I'll have the time to try". Well, next year has come and gone, so here I go... no clue what I'm writing, yet. Still mulling over ideas, but I'm going to give it my best shot.

Good luck to everyone! Glad to be here :)

[witch-of-the-si.livejournal.com]

Hello there.

I'm Si, I live in the U.S. but I learned to spell from a British girl, leading to confusion with words like colour and armour. I've been doing NaNoWriMo for the last four years, but I haven't won yet. I made it to 25,000 in 2008, but I promised myself I would win this year... Plus I made a wordcount bet for 8,000, and if I win, then my friend has to provide my D&D group with snacks.

This year's novel is about a missing girl in an urban fantasy setting. The missing girl and her younger brother are mediums, and her brother enlists the help of a telekinetic girl to help rescue her. Involves ghosts, sorcerers, magical hospitals, and a relatively likable main character for once.

Good luck everyone!

[ollivve.livejournal.com]

Hullo!

I'm Kate, and i'm rather glad to have found a nano support group on LJ :) I succeeded in nanowrimo last year [yay!] but am feeling a *little* less motivated this time around [mostly because I'm busier now than I was at this time last year].

I'm 23 years old, I live in Pennsylvania. I'm not sure what the novel's about yet, but it may involve a number of different characters whose stories converge at certain points.

Happy Writing, everyone!

[evilhippo.livejournal.com]

Hi! I'm Carrie and this is my... fifth NaNo, I think. I haven't won since 2004, but I think I finally have the motivation again to get through it to the end (even though I'm kind of stuck a day behind right now).

My novel this year was a random throw-away idea I had over dinner on the 31st, and I have no idea where I'm going with it. It started as "the worst steampunk novel ever", and is based around giant mecha robots in the antebellum south, but so far it's more about voodoo-zombies and brothels than giant robots.

Good luck to everyone! May your ideas be more writeable than mine!