OCTOBER 31: Daily Introduction Post

[jupitersings.livejournal.com]

Hello, Everyone!
Here is your Daily Introduction post!
In these posts you can tell us about yourself, what you're writing, how old you are, where you're from, what your screen name is, your astrological sign, etc… Have fun with it!


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

The Genre Friending Thread is HERE

The Regional Meetup and Friending Thread is HERE

The Twitter Friending Meme is HERE

The Plot help and Resource post is HERE

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

Chat away!

Comments

[tapestry01.livejournal.com]

Howdy! I'm Tim, and this will be my 8th attempt at NaNoWriMo. One of my friends on Facebook recently posted she hated NaNo because "it emphasized quantity over quality." The first year I attempted NaNo, I wrote like I had always written: stopping every few sentence to go back and endlessly tweak every little line. That first year taught me a lesson: a person could write like that forever, in an endless quest for quality, and never finish anything.

Doing this challenge has taught me a lot about writing. It exposed a lot of my own weaknesses, but it also highlighted my strengths. NaNo is about setting a goal and pushing yourself to achieve it. I recommend doing NaNo to anyone who is seriously considering being a writer. Good luck, everybody!

[ahavah]

That's why I love nano! So many people are so hyper-focused on editing or being perfect that they never finish. It's supposed to be that way. Fun and freeing!

Good luck to you as well.

[nosoundcomes.livejournal.com]

(Oh, hi there, fellow dailyrumi poster! Are you doing NaNo, too? :) )

[ahavah]

Why hello! Fancy meeting you here! I am indeed doing NaNo. This will be my fifth time, & the third or fourth time on one particular idea I've been working on. I'm pretty sure this year I'll win it. I came close last year. What's yours about? And can I add you if you're on the forums?

:D

[nosoundcomes.livejournal.com]

Oh my! This is my first attempt at NaNo; I'm not quite nervous but I am excited, and I hope that doesn't change! I do lurk about on the forums and would be thrilled to have a NaNo buddy, so you ought to be able to find me here (http://www.nanowrimo.org/eng/user/711905). (And if that doesn't work, my username is AmandaRae.) I have a vague idea about what my story will be about, but as it's my first year I'm going to try not to stress about details and just write. I will say that it is actually inspired by and will be structured after the Rumi poem "Solomon's Crooked Crown." Should be fun!

What about yours? I wish you the best of luck with it! :]

[ahavah]

Awesome, thanks! I'm Ahavah on there, although my real name happens to be Amanda too. I added you, and I look forward to writing with you. That's an awesome poem, so it'll be interesting to see where you go with that.

Here is my little blurb I have:

A blend of science fiction and fantasy, the NaNo WonderSaga follows Earth's first generation ship as they begin exploring the Universe in search of a habitable planet. Fifty years after leaving Earth behind, the crew experiences an anomaly that opens the ship to a world of magic - and threatens to change both the ship's mission and the evolution of the human race.

I'm very excited to get started! NaNo is so much fun.

[jacquise.livejournal.com]

Aloha! I'm LaTia (Jacquise at the NaNo site) and this will be my fifth NaNo, and hopefully the first one I win. It's also the first year where I've developed any sort of plot BEFORE going into NaNo. Here's hoping that I don't bottom out five days into it like I've done the last few years.

(It really has been five days every year. I checked.)

[moosical.livejournal.com]

I'm Caroline (Moosical on the site too!). This is my third attempt at Nano, both other attempts were fails. This year I have switched from...

"Have an idea, just write and hope for the best"

to

"Have idea, outlined idea so have an idea of where I am going start to finish and should hopefully not get writers block"

What I am writing is a story called Full Circle. It's sort of cross genre, some mystery, intrigue, thriller, some scifi and supernatural.

Starting on a train, where a husband and wife are joined by a third person, on the oustide he looks like trouble, though he's actually quite charasmatic and charming. He wins the wife over straight away and eventually the husband. As the train progresses their carraige gets seperated from the rest of the train and what follows changes their lives forever. In a story where nothing and no-one is how it seems, how do you know who to trust.

[navyclementine.livejournal.com]

I'm always a bit worried about NaNo because as I grow to like my plot, I think to myself "well, this could be good if I actually TRIED, so I'm wasting a decent idea." But at the same time, I know I'll never write it if I don't do it now, so.

I'm writing a kind of contemporary novel that's not quite YA, but could be read as such. It's inspired by the Ginsberg poem Howl, and it's about a bunch of high school students who fall in love with the poem and their teacher...and that's really all I know so far. I'M SO BAD AT PLOTTING, YOU GUYS. Basically, their obsession with the poem goes too far, and if you've read it, you know what I mean when I say that at least one of them ends up in Rockwell...

I'm so scared! And barely outlined! AAAAHHHHH

[airealataiel.livejournal.com]

Hi!! I'm Aayla, and this is my first year with NaNoWriMo. I used to write fanfiction all of the time (and loved it, ahhh ... my passion) and then I went to college and lost all of my free time and sense of creativity. I'm in my junior year and I don't want to believe that college killed my imagination, so my goal for nanowrimo (besides writing 50,000+ words of course!) is to get back in the writing groove.

I've told a few friends and family members that I'm going to do it (to keep myself motivated from backing out), I've scheduled every minute of every day of my week so that I don't feel stressed from homework and the novel competing with each other, I've outlined my plot and characters, and I'm raring to go!! I can't wait until tomorrow, when I can finally put some words down.

[nosoundcomes.livejournal.com]

Good for you! Going away to college can be a horrible thing for a creative person. Before I went away I used to be quite the artist and writer, always crafting up all sorts of things, and this is how everyone knows me; they're usually very surprised to find out I just graduated with a degree in linguistics and am pursuing education instead of art or writing. While I love my degree and intended career path, I really regret that I haven't created anything in almost five years...so that's why I'm doing my first NaNoWriMo this year too, to get back into the swing of things!

I wish you the best of luck! Hopefully we both rediscover our writing grooves. :)

[airealataiel.livejournal.com]

I agree! If you have a twitter, my nanowrimo ones is @airenano if you want to keep up with each other. Or I can friend you here. :)

[nosoundcomes.livejournal.com]

I'm always up for some NaNo buddies! If you get a Twitter request from @nosoundcomes, then that is me. And please, feel free to add my LiveJournal and/or NaNoWriMo username (http://www.nanowrimo.org/eng/user/711905). The more people to cheer on and be cheered by, the better! :)

[redstar826.livejournal.com]

Hello, I'm Catherine. This is my first attempt at NaNoWriMo. I just decided to do this a few days ago (insomnia is a veryyyy bad thing for me LOL). I'm actually not much of a writer. I'm one of those people who kicks ideas around in her head constantly without putting them down on paper, so I figured this would force me to sit down and actually write. I figure even if I crash/burn/end up crying with a pile of empty wine bottles around me, that this would be a good exercise and maybe I will generate something that I can use later on.

Plus, I'm unemployed so I have the time right now...

[notparallelfood.livejournal.com]

Hey howdy hey!

I'm Hanne. I'm 21, and from Norway, which means that NaNo for me, starts in about three and a half hours.

For weeks now I've had my plot perfectly planned out. I know appromately what is to happen in each chapter, from start to finish, and I've been happy with that. Why wouldn't I be? It felt as though it was going to go along swimmingly because of all of this.

That was until about an hour ago, when a new idea suddenly smacked me in the face like a bag of bricks, and now I'm not sure. Especially since for this new idea all I have is a premise, and what my two main male characters look like (since it was a picture of two actors standing together that brought it to me)

I'm not sure what to do now. To ditch the first idea and try for the second, or save the second for later...

choices

[blondbomb.livejournal.com]

The 'Buttoned Down Mind' strikes back!

Start the new idea, of course, and when you hiccup, merge it into the other story.

Re: choices

[notparallelfood.livejournal.com]

I can't merge them, sadly.

The new fic is with completely different characters in a completely different setting. Ugh ugh ugh.

I really do want to start the new one, but I have like...nothing. It worries me. D:

Re: choices

[blondbomb.livejournal.com]

Try thinking outside the box. Take your characters to a play/movie/renaissance day event where the outlined plot is the substance. Turn it into a dream/nightmare, parallel universe tied together by whatever thin thread of commonality you can dream up...

[ahavah]

That sounds awesome. Well, go with whichever you're feeling passionate about. If this new idea calls to you, go for it. Don't feel like it has to be a finished book. You could just follow it along for 50k and see what happens. If it fizzles, you have a great back up.

[catwho.livejournal.com]

Hi hi! This will be my 4th attempt at NaNoWriMo. Last year I actually succeeded, and another 30K words (and three months) plus four months of editing resulted in an actual book, which I'm trying to find an agent for now.

I'm hoping to knock out another one this coming month!

[nlthomas.livejournal.com]

Congrats on the winning of nano last year ;) It's amazing how long editing takes huh? You figure the story is already written when it really isn't. A first draft is more like a really, really long outline.

[nlthomas.livejournal.com]

Hello everyone! My name is Nicole and this is my first year doing Nano. I've thought of doing it before, but I was always a week or two too late, so this year I made sure to get in on time. As far as writing goes, I generally stick to fiction (mostly fantasy), but I'm challenging myself this year by writing a memoir that's been in the index file for over 2 years.

I'll be adding folks here to my LJ buddies, so please don't mind. I'd love to get inspiration from others be it by way of reading your entries or getting comments in response to my own.

Oh, and my username for Nano is alyiakallen. Best of luck everyone!

[nosoundcomes.livejournal.com]

Oh, you're just like me: I prefer and love fantasy but I'm doing another genre this year for a challenge. I'll add you here and on NaNo and cheer you on! (Which is why I came back here, after seeing you add me; I am meticulous about who's who and all that, haha!)

[nlthomas.livejournal.com]

I understand completely! I'm honestly moving from fantasy for a handful of reasons. I've shopped a few novels to agents, and while they liked what they saw, the market just isn't there right now. I'm also terribly burnt out after writing it non-stop for X amount of years. I need a breath of fresh air.

What are you going to work on? I'll have to dig through your blog and see if I can find some info ;)

[nosoundcomes.livejournal.com]

I hear you. Before I stopped writing (which is why I'm taking on the NaNoWriMo challenge), I really wrote fantasy out of my own love and amusement. I don't think I would ever pursue it professionally, but I create just to quiet my mind at night, so that doesn't bother me so much. :)

Oh dear. Well, my LJ is pretty scarce about it at the moment, since I'm rather going on a whim of inspiration. I'm writing a contemporary piece based on a poem by the poet Rumi, of whom I am quite a huge fan. A bit of a commentary on relationships with others and one's self, seems like. I also just got a nasty virus so my laptop is actually out of order, and I'm on a relative's computer. Sure is going to be a challenging NaNoWriMo if I don't get it fixed soon! ;)

[nlthomas.livejournal.com]

Ugh, sorry to hear about the virus. I read on your LJ about looking around for your windows XP cd, hope you can locate it. I don't think I could ever go without my laptop.

I had a gateway years ago for college and typed the keyboard to death working on 3 novels in the course of 2 years. Eventually the laptop just stopped typing and even after tinkering with the motherboard I couldn't revive it. Goes to show how much I typed back then.

Hiding This Year's Project In a Community

[pandemo.livejournal.com]

You might prefer to friend pandemo, which is my main journal, and the host of the community this year's NANO is in, nano_projects.

[kouji-mustang.livejournal.com]

As I sit and wait in antpcipation for NaNo to start in fifteen minutes~

Name is Donni, 20 and love adventure~ So I am going to attempt to put a lot of that into my newest created novel, "Lusus Naturales"
Third time doing NaNo; failed the last two years due to family problems, but I am determined to get this story on the ball. I just love the characters too much. All 72 of them orz
I gotta lot of obstacles to overcome this month; my DS is packed up (kinda sucks, I was getting to the good part in Kingdom Hearts, hahaa~) Digimon, Inazuma Eleven and Bakuman watching will have to be put on hold and the music is warming up. LET'S KICK IT~ <333

[oxfordtweed]

I'm Zed, and Christ. I've lost count how many times I've done this. For the last three? Four? years, I've consistently said, "Nah, I don't think so. Not this year."

And then, every time, I've consistently gotten a guerilla idea from nowhere at the last minute. So, I'm back doing Nano this year.

For the first time ever, I'm attempting an original idea. Well, I say original, in that all of the characters are original. I'm taking an amalgam of characters, settings, and ideas I've put down for countless other projects, have stuck them in a blender, and have come up with something that I dearly hope works.


As for me:

My name's Zed, I live in Las Vegas, enjoy the sounds of Bob Dylan and the Residents, currently have a massive crush on Martin Freeman (I'm not even sure where it came from, because it wasn't there last week), and am hopelessly addicted to Casualty and QI. You're probably likely to find me hanging around milliways_bar and related communities these days.

[ibonekoen]

Hello, all. My name is Kris, and this is attempt #4. I've only won NaNo once, in '08. The first year, I forgot to validate :| so I didn't technically win. Last year...I got to 30,000+ words and hit a massive roadblock because I hadn't plotted my ghost thing well enough and where I was headed sounded lame.

This year, I'm not really doing anything serious. I'm not planning to ever publish what I'm writing this year, so I'm just going for broke and writing whatever. It's a Regency era hooker fic aaaaand I'm planning lots of porn.