As of today, I am now an active member of NaNoWriMo again.

If anybody wishes to find me, my user handle is SpecstacularSC, and I have posted a full except of my story to be read at one's leisure.

Enjoy, and see you in ten days!

This will be my fourth year of NaNoWriMo-ing. I haven't lost yet, and I don't intend to this year, either!

Although I'm still working on finishing my novel from last year. I want to get that story done before starting a new one.

I also have no idea what this year's is going to be about, but, hey, that's never stopped me before!

I always got to 50k, but it was 50k words of crap so...
Anyway. I dunno if I'll have the time, but I still get in a huge-ass writing project every year (just not in one month and not in November). So yup.

Good luck to all of you marathon writers!

I've been doing NaNoWriMo since 2006, and I've never actually managed to finish yet. This year, I'm taking four classes, working part-full-ish time, and writing for the school newspaper.

...But I refuse to cede the game! I'm almost done with a shortish story that came along, about a courier and an emperor, and I think the emperor's backstory might make a good NaNo - I don't know what happened at all, so there's no plot yet besides a Vizier who's not evil, several Council members who are... ambitious, and at least one civil war.

I'll probably make it to halfway through the year and then explode. They'll find a puddle of words and a herd of scattering plot-bunnies in the middle of the campus one day, and that'll be the end of it.

Until then, though, We NaNoers, who are about to write, salute you!

Whoooo, here we go again. I only discovered the madness that is NaNoWriMo last year and I am sad to say my story fell through. It was plot that was destined for short-storyhood, something I only discovered after the first ten thousand words. Thankfully, I have a plot that looks like it will survive my bouts of writers block, procrastination, and midnight inspiration. Praise the month of coffee and hand cramps from typing too much!

I'm definitely doing it this year, mostly because I've got a great story idea that I can't wait to write, but also because my one friend who got me into it will kill me if I don't. Last year was my first year and I fell short by about 5k, but by the end of the month I had lost all semblance of plot and I had no idea where I was going. Hopefully this year will be better; I actually have all the plot details planned out this time!

As I see I am not simply a blabbering fanboy, I shall disclose my idea.

So for a few years, now, I've been privately tossing a story about on my head that's kind of like Hellsing meets Magical Girl meets-

Don't kill me, it's better than it sounds, I made sure of that.

Anyhow, the story is about a teenager named Simon Bellamay who, once upon an eighteenth birthday's eve, gets unceremoniously attacked by demons, and in order to protect his life, he is forcefully knighted into an order of demon slaying paladins who have secretly existed since the days when mankind was little more than a bunch of warring tribes.

It's gritty and action packed, with some sarcastic humor here and there, and it will count as the first real draft of this story.

If I might shamelessly plug a quote:

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"Ave, Maria," Simon whispered in awe as he beheld the impossibly detailed and beautiful statue of the winged princess.

Maria looked over at her commander quizzically. "I'm right here, Simon," she said.

"G- Shut up, Maria," Simon snapped.

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So? Thoughts?

I had no idea this existed. Let's see... Magical Girls are pretty much my favorite thing, so perhaps some kind of magical girl story? I've always liked the idea of a really stereotypical, RAINBOWS AND FRIENDSHIP, magical girl who ends up in a world of modern-day-ish comic superheroes. Ideas, Ideas...

I would usually be in for this sort of thing. I never make a very good showing, but I have participated for three years now. This year, though, I don't have any novels that particularly scream to be written, at the moment. I think I will put aside my noveling for the year and work on other projects instead.

For instance: I have a couple of plays that have been in my head for a while. Maybe I will get a start on one of those.

-Derrick

I'm already making notes. Crazy notes, but notes. And I'm rolling in plot ideas already.

I'm going to try. This year I'm doing something for serious which... I just hope it turns out. It's kind of the foundation of a series of novels that currently only exist in my head.

But on the other hand, bad stuff happens and I don't want to write it... because I really don't want to suck at showing people how bad the bad stuff was and how there isn't any easy way back. I mean, this event is kind of the foundation of the personality of one of my characters... and my attitude to editing is to either run a SPAG and bad logic flow check or to go whole hog on how many syllables a sentence has...

Considering I'm being paid forty bucks to write crack slashfic? I'm in. I'm very in.

I still have decided what I'll do, though. Either comedy about vampire or horror about faries.

I tried it last year and managed to get up to around 27,000 words before my computer crashed and wiped my file out. There was much crying and swearing on my part.

This year I'm sure to hit the mark! YEEEEEUH, BRING IT, OPEN OFFICE!

I'm definitely doing it this year, like I have since 2006. I want to manage my 5k-a-day speed from last year's Week One, but this time I want to extend it for another three days and finish on day 10 just to prove I totally can. Who needs quality, I've got QUANTITY! And just enough momentum that the brain-weasels are left futilely shrieking in my wake as I zoom off into the sunset. In November I don't have time for criticizing myself, it's seriously the best month of the year...

How did my phone auto-correct "am" to "San"?