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alexachipman · 07-20-2009

I noticed on Sonic Society already the topic of Nanowrimo 2009 came up, so does anyone have ideas on what they are going to do? Or need help finding an idea?

Personally I'm going to be writing the final book in the Kelmah novel trilogy. My goal is to finish editing the first 2 before Nano season.

Jerm · 07-21-2009

I believe I will be taking this year off. I was already thinking about it, but then I got a part in A Christmas Carol and the producer strongly suggested that I should concentrate on that. I agree.

But, I will still be cheering on everyone else and attending the local write-a-thons. Just not in competition, as it were. My modest hope for November is only 5,000 words or so of scripts, but that's all.

alexachipman · 07-21-2009

Christmas Carol sounds like rather a lot of fun, though, what part is it?

Jerm · 07-24-2009

Bob Crachit, whose name I have no confidence I just spelled correctly.

laura · 07-25-2009

I'm planning on giving it a go again though I'm not sure what I'm doing yet. I've got lots of 'concepts' floating around, but nothing more fleshed out than that. I know what I'm not doing though - another story with many characters set somewhere I've never been (mostly in a desert!) and therefore can't describe!

I'm quite tempted to write a story set in my home town with a main character who is suspiciously like myself - that way I know the place and the character already

Okay it's not what you're supposed to do when writing a book, but then I'm just seeing this as practice and no one else is going to read it anyway!

On the other hand I do have some more interesting ideas...

alexachipman · 07-26-2009

Desert sounds interesting-- tricky to make it unique though.

HCBorn · 09-07-2009

I too have only a vague, post-apocalyptic/dystopian/near-future notion that needs a -lot- more fleshing out before November. It's got potential though, and I'm excited to plan for it, so... thus far it's all good, if a bit foggy.

Last year the write-ins were all of 3-4 people. It'll be interesting to see what happens this time around.

alexachipman · 10-20-2009

Anyone else? I've decided what I'll be doing. It, as usual, doesn't fall within the official rules but I find having the time restraint and knowing other people are writing a lot is a massive motivator. I plan during the month of November to finish writing the second edition of one of my history books. I'm completely reorganizing the entire structure of the book, most of the information has changed (due to research I did) so it is a matter of writing it all up in a coherent, interesting fashion and figuring out how to use my new structure. Still it will be quite an undertaking and I'll need that 'x number of words per day' to get me working.

bohemianroxie · 10-21-2009

Hmm..I'm giving it a go again..
Mine is sort of about time travel...but really more about memories and how they define us..

I do like the discipline that NaNo sort of self enforces and am hoping to fine tune an old idea.

alexachipman · 10-22-2009

Yes I am running into more and more people who use November as their big writing month whether short stories, audio scripts, etc because setting that word count level and knowing that thousands of people all over the world are doing it too just gives you that extra discipline, even if you aren't writing a literal novel.