Daily Introduction Thread: Day Seven

[dreamwriters]

Hi my name is _______________.

Come introduce yourselves in the comments. Then, you can also welcome each other, as well.

Comments

[fenrischained.livejournal.com]

Hello! I'm Jormy, and this is my *counts* fifth NaNo? I think? Something like that. I've won every year, and never actually finished a manuscript, because I'm cool like that.

I'm currently scrambling to try and finish last year's story before November is upon us, but I don't think I'm going to make it (I mean, seriously, that's five days to take a story from 79k to the end, which at this rate is looking to be about another 15 or 20 thousand words... argh), particularly as I'm also revising for two exams (driving theory on Tuesday, medical admissions test on Nov 7th)... but that is information nobody cares about, shut up Jormy.

This year, I'm going back to my roots and trying to write high fantasy. I write a lot of other stuff, though, including poetry and fanfic and RP, so there's that about me. I have chronic fatigue syndrome and fibromyalgia, which is a pain in the ass when you're trying to get stuff done, but I soldier on. I'm nineteen, British, and really bad at introductions.

Nice to meet you!

[togoboldly.livejournal.com]

G'afternoon. I'm Zach. In the process of trying to repair sticky keys on my keyboard I made my S key much worse so November is not looking to start out so well. I'm also struggling to fix up my plot in time to actually start pounding out the meat of it, but at present it looks like a bizarre cross of mainstream fiction with literary influences and dashes of bildungsroman and magical realism, set in a tiny Virginian town. Failing that, I'm going to attempt to write the first installment of an ambitious Star Trek: Enterprise/Assassin's Creed crossover fic, which seems to make more sense to me at present, but still requires possibly more research than I can handle this close to the starting line.

I'm also British, twenty-something, married to a student who's doing NaNo and a dissertation proposal at the same time, and presently enduring post-convention blues, which doesn't make much sense because said con was pretty dire. I've only won NaNo once, and I had help, so this year I'm trying a new approach and using a well known planning method to get me adequately plotted and prepared. So far it's a little hit and miss, but optimism is the word of the day.

[fenrischained.livejournal.com]

British-five! (shh, I'm tired and silly)

[togoboldly.livejournal.com]

Nothin' wrong with tired and silly! *Brit-five*

[jacquelee]

Hi there! I'm Mona, but jac is fine for my 'internet life', everyone calls me that.
I found out about Nano about three years ago. Two years ago I actually contemplated doing Nano because I was between jobs but I didn't get further than having an idea and then I found a job as a pizza delivery girl and didn't have the time.
And last year I definitely didn't have the time as I worked fulltime and I found that making graphics was a more rewarding hobby for me than writing. But this year I'm only working halftime and even more importantly with the Glee fandom I found a playground in which I actually love to write. Before that, writing was a chore which I sometimes did to get the ideas out of my head but never really enjoyed because I couldn't 'picture' the characters, they didn't talk to me like they do now.

So I've decided that before I never get to write down those ideas, I'd rather cheat a bit and write fanfiction AU. That way, I don't have to invent the characters, they're already there and I can just put them in the surroundings of 'my' world.

Which means that basically, the story I'll attempt to write in November is the same one I was thinking about writing two years ago, an historical romance in which the main characters are gay. Because I love historical romances and there actually are some that have gay characters, but they never explore this in detail. So I'm gonna do that. :)

I'm excited to be a part of this community and I'm especially looking forward to the sprints.

[gtodt.livejournal.com]

Hello my name is insert name here... I'm new still trying to understand what exactly Isaac nano but aside from that I'm attempting to embark on a completion of my first novel.... Starting is always a breeze but when I get to the middle I completely freeze suffer from fear if failure and close my laptop and walk away for months at a time. Then I come back start the novel over and repeat the cycle....this time I'm determine to finish something I start even if its a book with w compilation of my many introductions

[lisbetavery.livejournal.com]

Hi! I'm Lis, Lizz, Lizbit, Bit, another name i can't list here... and a bunch of other names. But y'all can call me Lis. I've been Nano-ing for probably the last seven or so years and failed miserably each time. However, each year I've accomplished more in terms of reaching higher word counts. I think last year I hit 25k! Eventually I will succeed. I'm hoping this is the year since I'm approaching my planning differently than I have in the past.

Um, yeah... I'm a 25 year old mother of a one year old. He, alone, is going to make NaNo this year a fun experience as I pull him off various pieces of furniture before he breaks himself while trying to pound out my novel. Heh.

Good luck!