Day 1 - Have you participated in NaNoWriMo before?  If so, which years and what end result?  If not (or even if so, for that matter), what’s your connection to writing?  Why do you want to participate this year?

I participated in the normal sessions in November in 2010 and 2011. I lost both years, but I made it a lot further in '11 than I did the ( Read more... )

I tend to get a little bit depressing on this here journal. Sorry. It's only because I don't have a journal that I write stuff down in, and I'm never fully and totally honest with friends. I can be completely honest here, though. It's nice ( Read more... )

So although my novel won't take place with my characters in high school, I feel the need to describe what the school systems will be like in the year 2214. And I clearly am unable to think of really cool stuff.
I want it to be advanced and maybe a little bit more sophisticated, but still flawed. As in, some people don't get the proper education they ( Read more... )

Okay, so my favorite part of the whole NaNo experience is creating these characters. Giving them personalities, quirky traits, apperances. And this time around it is no different ( Read more... )

So a few months ago I had this great idea for a possible novel during NaNoWriMo this year (and since I'm doing Camp NaNo I don't have to wait until November!). My idea seemed pretty cool to me at the time, and I even thought up a couple rough characters and such, but now the more I think about it the more I feel like I will lose steam. So I'm going ( Read more... )

I just want to kind of do a little happy dance right now, because I have broken my record from last year! Sadly last time around, I only wrote for the first three days in November, and I have even broken my goal for the day!! WOOT!!!!!! Granted, my daily goals are the goals that NaNoWriMo has already set up, but they are goals none the less ( Read more... )

So I've been thinking about this year's NaNoWriMo and how I wasn't going to participate, and how sad that makes me. Last night at a friend's house, we watched the fourth Pirates movie, the one with the mermaids, and it hit me! I'll use an old story idea that I came up with a few summers ago for NaNo ( Read more... )

Word prompt from NaNoWriMo. I need to go do something else, or I'm going to get burned out before November 1st even rolls around!

"Noise"
Word count: 407
Time: About 10 minutes, I want to say. I lost track after about the first paragraph.

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Got this from a forum on NaNoWriMo.org and it was a great challenge, so I'm going to post it here for anyone to see and do!

1. Take a look at this site (http://asylums.insanejournal.com/rp_tutorials/63321.html) of words for writing prompts.
2. Find a random number generator (I use http://www.random.org) and get three numbers to chose what prompts to ( Read more... )

After totally crashing and burning in my NaNoWriMo attempts, I have tried to block it all out as best I could. But for some reason earlier tonight, I had the urge to go to the website and look at my failures ( Read more... )