Intro Thread 3 November

[andersenmom.livejournal.com]

HEY!

Anyone not yet introduced themselves and wants to, here's the place to do it!

Give us your name, a brief synopsis if you so desire, and genre. In any order. The only thing required is your name!

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[theaveryrule.livejournal.com]

I'm Simon (moderntrickster on the site, Tumblr, and Twitter), I'm doing a pair of horror/romance pieces, both based on Slavic myth. The first is about a god of fear (Chernobog) and a man who discovers he's a mare (nightmare/incubus-type vampire thingy), while the second is about a dragon and a young man who falls in love with him, that's based loosely of stories like Gorynych, Kosheci, and Vasilisa the Beautiful stories. It's more in the tradition of Slavic folklore than an actual modernization or anything like that.

I have a Tumblr for this year's project, likebloodandmilk, and will be linking to chapters on Ao3 from there if anyone would like to follow along! Otherwise, I always welcome new friends here, on my daily Tumblr, or on Twitter. And writing buddies are love!

[blackestpitch.livejournal.com]

I'm Lina. I'm doing a young adult/urban fantasy piece about a girl who was born with the potential to combine all planes of existence into one. It's told from her POV, and she curses a lot and has a way with words, so to say.

I'm Inverse on the site. I'm a little self-conscious about writing though. :3

[jamiecullum.livejournal.com]

that sounds really interesting.

[blackestpitch.livejournal.com]

Thanks! :3 *blush*

[lorataprose.livejournal.com]

I actually don't think I've managed to do that yet, ahahaha /o\

I'm Lora, lorata on NaNoWriMo & Twitter, poetryondemand on tumblr.

Doing a mix portal fantasy/historical fiction where a guy from a fantasy alternate Earth gets sent to Napoleonic-era Europe. There's magic and battle and feelings (oh so many feelings, I'm not writing a war story haha) and threesomes and UST and all kinds of things.

[aerlind.livejournal.com]

I'm Aerlind, here, on the Nano site, and just about everywhere else requiring a username on the Internet. I'm in my last semester of undergrad at the University of Colorado (studying Integrative Physiology) and this will be my...*counts*...6th Nano? I've only won once, last year (and was about 300 words shy of 60k!). I ride horses in my spare time (hence my avatar). Fun stuff.

My novel is a fantasy-fiction, mostly fiction with a few elements of stuff that would never happen. Basically, the MC is of a rare race of people who live extended lives and can only be killed by a knife made by one of her ancestors...and the wrong person discovers the existence, legend, and location of the knife. It becomes a race to find the knife, the MC for her life and the antagonist, for his immortality.

[goreplz.livejournal.com]

I'm Diamond. On nanowrimo.org I am azula.
My book is currently categorized under Mainstream Fiction (even though I am re-thinking making its genre into Chick Lit) and it's about a married woman who finds herself entering an emotional affair with an eighteen-year-old student her husband teaches.

[choroidalnevus.livejournal.com]

Why hello! I'm Nicolette, better known as missnicolette on the NaNo site and goatscantvote in the chats. I suffer from a bit of username ADD, apparently.

My story this year is a prequel to last year's winner - my MC is currently in the process of being recruited by either Heaven or Hell to help with the impending heavenly war that the other side just happens to be planning (and using humanity as pawns). She can't decide whether she wants to sell her soul to Hell for a good math score on her SATs or fight the "good fight" and have to terrorize everyone she knows....or something. I'm still getting to the details. I decided to do NaNo this year on....oh, October 27 or so, so I still don't actually have a plot. It's currently NaNoed under "Horror/Supernatural", though it only falls under the latter. It's actually quite tongue-in-cheek.

Writing buddies are love, as apparently my work schedule sucks too much to get decent write-in time, even though my region is GINORMOUS (like 8500 people and 100+ miles ginormous, with 5+ write-ins per week. WTF, work).

[aerlind.livejournal.com]

Out of curiosity, is your avatar an image of a retina, and if so (that's what it looks like to me at least...), why?

[choroidalnevus.livejournal.com]

It sure is! The green spot in the middle is a choroidal nevus, and I am enough of a nerd to have my userpic match my username xD

[aerlind.livejournal.com]

I am sadly not enough of a nerd to have picked up on that...I tend to tune out some of the big words my mom says (she's an optometrist) that aren't relevant to what I'm studying. Or asking her.

[skiptothelu.livejournal.com]

Hey. I'm Skip. I've met quite a few people in the sprinting today. I'm writing a young adult piece involving a special needs girl.

Nice to meet you all!

[wolfess10.livejournal.com]

Hello! I'm Lily, and I'm known as MusingRandomly for Nano, Camp Nano, and Screnzy and Wolfess10 on deviantArt.

I am being a rebel this year and continuing a novel I've been working on throughout Camp Nano. It's a high fantasy story about a girl of an original species as she navigates government conspiracies, find out who she is, and learns to live life. I've been writing as much background as possible during the pass few months, and have made up at least another two or three species of dragons. Right now, I'm just making sure everything is in place before I start really diving into the next portion.

[demonicangel07.livejournal.com]

Hi! I'm Sarah, demonic_angel132007 on the NaNoWriMo site and demonic_angel13 on Twitter (I know I'm so original). This is my 5th year of NaNo and I usually fail around the 2nd week when something bad happens but this year I'm ignoring everyone and everything and sticking to my NaNo.

It's a young adult/fantasy that began as a short story thrown together 30 minutes before my college English class back in 2008. It's about Vanessa, a young woman who discovers her heritage and discovers that her young niece's life is in serious danger.

Feel free to add me and I'll add back. :)

[agoodinsane.livejournal.com]

Hi!
My name is Alyssa.
I am writing a YA book. It's a story that I have been writing and re-writing since 2008. I;'m hoping this is the last NaNo I will write this book. :)

[spicypixi.livejournal.com]

Name: AmyLyn (aka: spicypixi...everywhere)

I've been writing since I was 7 and only began taking it up seriously and nursing into a semi-profession for the past few years. With last year's bust of a challenge (my first...and it BOMBED within the first week!), I am determined to win at all costs this year - which means I may end up playing hookey from work *cough cough* oh my! I feel a cold coming on! OR IT COULD BE THE FLU!!!

I mainly write horror and fantasy-based stories, with small forays into romance and mystery. I gain a lot of my inspiration through lucid dreaming and night terrors (which I get if I sleep on my back...strange, neh?). While it seems a little odd, you'd be surprised what that combo can do for someone in sore need of some fresh ideas. The mind is full of them, you just have to know where to look.

Feel free to follow me on here, blogger or twitter (the last two with links you can find on my profile page)

Toodles and good luck!

[edenofalltrades.livejournal.com]

I kept missing these posts so I'll just introduce myself here.

My name is Sofya (though I also go by Eden on the Interwebs). This NaNo I'm writing a chick lit novel tentatively called "How I Am the Queen of Whip It" as it is an combination of elements from How I Met Your Mother (tv show), Queen of Babble (book series) and Whip It (book/movie about Roller Derby).

I'm edenofalltrades on the NaNo website as well if anyone wants to be writing buddies there.

[d-ann-writes.livejournal.com]

Hi everyone, my name is D. Ann (D. Ann Davis on the NaNo website) and this year I'm writing Paranormal Romance. My tentative back-jacket blurb is:

What do you do when a promise you made as a child comes back to haunt you?

All grown up and smarting from the horrible ending to her engagement, Cassidy has sworn off men. All she wants to do is open her restaurant with her roommate, not worry about a long ago pact made between children. But when Micah shows up on her doorstep, six months away from his 30th birthday, it all comes roaring back. Now she’s in a race against time to find him his mate.

It wasn’t easy growing up as the bastard child to the head of the Alexander pack, but Cassidy was always there to help Micah. She listened to his problems, eased his transformations, and supported his dreams. Ever since the first day they met, Micah has always known Cassidy was his mate. When she promised to marry him, he thought she knew it too. But then she left, and his transformations have gotten worse. Now he’s got six months to woo her; six more transformations to go before his body shuts down on him. Can he show her he’s not the playboy she thinks he is?