Usually I'm lucky if I get a good idea for November. I happened to luck out this year and had a fantastic novel idea for June ( Read more... )

Okay, so this is kind of a sounding board about what I'm writing this year.

Boheme is about some twelve characters ranging in age from 16 to early 20s.  Four of them are childhood friends and grew up in an isolated space colony with some rather Puritanesque theocracy going on.  Five others are a sort of brain trust involved in a protest movement ( Read more... )

So, this is my first time ever doing this, and so far it's going great. It's just, I feel like my story is lacking something. It's about a young girl named Sophia who is a ballerina. When she walks home, she meets a young girl named Hayden. Hayden is homeless and Sophia, feeling bad for the girl, invites her to stay in her house. Sophia then learns ( Read more... )

Alright, so my main character is a detective. But I have always been so terrible at writing cases and murders and mysteries, so I just need some advice on how to either fake it and just kind of mention a case here and there, or I need to try and learn how to create a few real fictionalized cases ( Read more... )

In desperate need of pathetically last minute help ( Read more... )

Hello everyone! I'm Juliet, a 16-year-old aspiring writer living in Southern California. I'm seriously considering at least attempting NaNoWriMo, since I've been hearing about it for a few years and wanted to finally jump on the bandwagon. I've always struggled with finishing stories, so I'm hoping this will get me motivated to just get everything ( Read more... )

I apologise if this isn't the right comm to be posting this in. If it is the wrong place, I shall delete post haste and take my arse over a more appropriate location.

Hi guys, I'm Ozwell over at the official website, if anyone wants to stare in wonder of my complete lack of anything regarding progress or just wants another writing buddy on their ( Read more... )

Hi, I'm Jo aka movie_mad_chick and this will be my 3rd year doing this. The first year I was dragged in to it by a friend and she got to 3000 words and stopped after a week, I got to the end and was so proud so I returned last year and smashed my previous record even though I was working full time, but its lonely just being me and only seeing that ( Read more... )

 Anyone from Cincy?

and just to make it a  more legit post:

I haven't been able to write something for 7 months-any interesting prompts?

again, if this is a no-no, please delete while laughing at the noob

I was looking at the fields for the "Novel Info" category on the NaNo website, and it asked me about "novel genre." That got me thinking - I don't quite know what my novel's genre is. XD Here's some background info:
16-year-old Arthur Audley comes from a working class family for which fame is their ticket to higher social circles, and awkward ( Read more... )