JaNoWriMo, anyone?

[ahavah]

Hello, friends!

I worked out a good chunk of a new storyline in The Dragon Alliance for NaNo this year. It's still not done, as I've had to focus on the house all December to make up for November's lack of doing darn near anything. Things are settling down now...and I think I'm going to do JaNoWriMo. I really want to bust out my apocalyptic survivalist/prepper story, Neon Giraffe (working title). The husband is a bit disappointed that I did The Dragon Alliance for the second year in a row, as he's apparently pretty excited about the Neon Giraffe idea. So looks like I'll have some good support at home if I try to get cracking on this thing next month.

I posted to the janowrimo community yesterday, but no one's posted there since 2010, and I've gotten no response yet. I had better luck on my FB, where I've recruited a couple of friends to do it with me, and a few more are contemplating it.

NaNo works for me primarily because of all the support & camaraderie. I'd love to give it another go if anyone wants to join us! I will even 'cheat' and say go ahead and finish/edit/polish up your NaNo if you prefer. I'm just looking for folks who might want to write together for a while again. Please let me know! Thanks!

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[eien-herrison.livejournal.com]

I'm going to be writing in January -- I've entered in for WriYe (http://wriye.proboards.com/index.cgi) with my own personal writing target and plans for the whole year (I've got a series of stories I really want to get at least a first draft of).

[ahavah]

I'm not familiar with that. I'll have to look over the board more when I get a bit more time. Thanks for the link! If you just feel like buddying up for some sprints or word wars, I don't care what anyone's personal goal is. I thought I might make a chatzy room if there was any interest though. I'm not a mod here, so hopefully they won't mind, but I really ended up enjoying the chatzy thing this year. It was my first try. I did a lot of writing with buddies on FB too.

[eien-herrison.livejournal.com]

The good thing is that you can set your own goal with WriYe (there is a 50k minimum though) -- I think that if you signed up you could say your goal is 100k, write 50k in January and 50k in November, that'd be fine as it averages out over the whole year*.

Good luck :)

(*I've had this semi-confirmed as my average per month is over my minimum thanks to doing 1k a day every month except November -- the average would be just over 32k -- but if I keep the pace I should hit my goal by the end of the year.)

[ahavah]

That's a great idea! It seems like I can never carve out time to write for myself unless it's a nano situation. That's why I'm so militant about my annual writing time, I think, possibly to the detriment of house & home. lol I've tried daily goals, and it just seems like I struggle with even small goals. Something to definitely work on this upcoming year if I want to get anywhere as a writer!