I'd love to do NaNoWriMo again. The only problem is that I'm in college now, and it leaves little-to-no time for a giant monster of a novel in thirty days.

I still remember the lightning feeling I got when I DID participate. That thunder beneath my fingertips, those roaring rapids of creativity. I have time to write, of course, but not enough time to write such a huge amount in such a short time.

At the very least I will try to break my personal record of 20k words.

No idea what I am going to write yet. It will probably be something involving the world I am creating. That was what I did last year, and then I used it for the writing sample for permission. So maybe a continuation of some things from last year.

I'll probably decide when I sit down to write.

-Phobos

The story I want to work on is a fairy tale punk sort thing with Nursery Rhyme and lesser fairy tale characters in the spotlight. A sort of lesser stakes kind of story. The big fairy tales and the currently out fairy tale movies are about the people that parades are thrown for, and this story is about the characters watching the parade. There's also chess, track races, the blues, organized crime, and happily ever afters.

And this year, I'll actually finish! :D

I have absolutely no idea what my story is-- I seem to get farther when I don't use an outline. I know it involves dragons, though, and possibly djinn!

It'll be my first time, I only found out what it was all about last December.
I've had multiple ideas and I'm still unsure of what I'll do...

I've got a ghost story to tell, courtesy of an unusually long, detailed and plot-soaked dream I had earlier this year.

My suitemate coerced me into it. (By which I mean she mentioned it and I went, "Oh, oh, I've always wanted to do that!")

My story idea currently involves the gold rush and killer hummingbirds. It's complicated.

I'll even remember about it this year. :P
I've never done it before, usually because I forget until I see someone mention it midway through November.

I don't know what I'll do yet. I don't think one of my larger ongoing projects, I'd rather start something fresh, but...

Well, an idea will come up. One hopes. Maybe something in the same world but a different era or place. Who knows.

I've been doing it for several years now. My daughter was upset the first time I did. But only because I didn't tell her about it in time for her to participate.

The truth is I didn't want to be outdone by my ten year old kid. (She typically has the highest word count in our region.)

I'll be continuing my last year's NaNovel, a thriller novel about a college-aged spy in training. Should be fun if I can get to a stopping point in last year's document! The character's easy enough to write, so that's good at least...

I'm torn between something set in my RP world, a continuation of a series I've been working on for ages, or something in Jackson and Felaben's home continuum.

It will be a fantasy sequel to last year's novel.

The ACMSES has greatly popularized the character I'm using.

I'm really busy, so I don't know how good I'll do.

On a different note, does anyone have any tips for getting out of a writer's block when writing a mission?

I had this cool idea about a cyberpunk world with elements of both fantasy and science fiction (and for the past five months my mind has been filled with the details of the crystalline growth that sprouts on everything and is used as a power source). I had this very snarky roguish-thief archetype, and she had a girlfriend who was a mage trained at the Government Academy, but she left, and this was a huge deal because mages without the academy's support and supplements tend to whither and fade and go into a sort of withdrawal and eventually outright die, and they're trying to keep her alive but they aren't sure which of the academy's odd habits were what keeps the mages alive, so they're just guessing. And there was also this trained, very powerful soldier who'd gone AWOL and the thief girl basically blackmailed him into joining up with them, and all of them were going to have to go on the run and try and find a way to live free and on their own, and just escape. (And at one point I was going to give them a couple of young children sort of dumped in their laps to protect, too.)

Sadly, there are signs that Life is going to happen in November with a vengeance, and I'm going to get about a thousand words, especially if I'm shooting for a goal. So I don't think I can write it this year. (Instead, I will bore people to death talking about it on message boards).