Is anyone else getting excited? Who's participating? Have you got a plot and an outline or are you (like me) coming up with a protagonist and winging it?
I've got a plot outline! Actually I've already started writing :\ I started writing my book before I decided to do NaNo, so I'm using NaNo as a way to spur me to finish it. I feel kind of bad, but I only really had a few concrete scenes that I'd written in hopes of forming a larger story. Then after I decided to do NaNo I wrote up a plot outline and found actors that look like the characters in my mind (it's lame, don't hate!)
Not lame! I should do that! It's really hard for me to picture things in my head and having an image of the people whose lives I am writing about might help me to do so!
I wouldn't feel bad if I were you. I know other people who have started a bit early. The whole point is a personal challenge, and you are challenging yourself, right? ♥
I had a vague idea of what I want them to look like, but if I find an actor to "play" them, as it were, it's much easier for me to do my descriptions and so on of them accurately. Particularly since I have a tendency to change my mental images of them as I go, ha ha. It's helpful to have an actor to fit the part so that I stay consistent!
Definitely a challenge. I've never actually completed a book for NaNo, and this is the first year that I really think I have a shot! xD
I should, I should do NaNo, because I haven't written anything in years, and I'm afraid I'm never going to write again if I don't start pushing myself to do so. =/
I am, god I am. I already started to write it because I've got, not midterm, but final exams which certify if I pass the year or not, and I will have to spend time studying, etc.
I was actually writing before I saw this. I've got this new program which seems like a typewriter and it's so cool. It doens't have any sort of distractions at all or whatever and god so amazing and so exciting.
IF ANYONE IS DOING IT, MY USERNAME IS LATINE NOW GO ADD ME.
Sara, you should start plotting something! You won't make it, otherwise!
I have vague ideas, Sharon, but trust me; the way my mind works, this will NOT HAPPEN if I plan. I will get frustrated with the guidelines I set myself. It's going to be a mix of my daydreams, my imagination, and ... ficitionalized versions of my life. I had inspiration, so don't worry. ♥
Totally understand starting early, love. I would do it, but NOW isn't any better than November, it's actually worse, so...
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I wouldn't feel bad if I were you. I know other people who have started a bit early. The whole point is a personal challenge, and you are challenging yourself, right? ♥
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Definitely a challenge. I've never actually completed a book for NaNo, and this is the first year that I really think I have a shot! xD
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I have a vague image. I should hunt out actresses! And actors, I suppose. Though pfft, my boys aren't significant.
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And now my brain is EXPLODING.
Bugger bugger bugger. Need a plot. Need characters. Need a functioning BRAIN. Nfgalskndvsenvfdesnnnn.
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:D
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Although couldn't you have come sooner? ELEVEN DAYS OH NOEZ.
I predict another year of complete and utter failure. BUT I SHALL PERSEVERE!!!
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And so here I am.
PARTICIPATION IS SUCCESS IN ITSELF! CHALLENGE YOURSEEEELF! ~
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BUT I REALLY WANT TO.
AGHHHHH.
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THIS SHALL BE INTERESTING.
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I should, I should do NaNo, because I haven't written anything in years, and I'm afraid I'm never going to write again if I don't start pushing myself to do so. =/
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We shall commiserate together.
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I was actually writing before I saw this. I've got this new program which seems like a typewriter and it's so cool. It doens't have any sort of distractions at all or whatever and god so amazing and so exciting.
IF ANYONE IS DOING IT, MY USERNAME IS LATINE NOW GO ADD ME.
Sara, you should start plotting something! You won't make it, otherwise!
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Totally understand starting early, love. I would do it, but NOW isn't any better than November, it's actually worse, so...
OOOH that program sounds cool! What is it called?
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:D :D :D
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BUT GOOD LUCK IF YOU DO!
*squees efficiently and effectively*
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AND THANKS FOR THE LUCK! ♥
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WELL, I WOULD CEPT THAT I HAVE A) HSC IE OMGOMGOMGOMGKILLMENOWEXAMS B) SCHOOLIES IE OMGOMGOMGKILLMENOWPARTYTIMES AND C) A CRAPPY BRAIN!
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I HAVE AP CLASSES, COLLEGE APPLICATIONS, AND FOREIGN EXCHANGE INTERVIEWS. YET I DEVOTE MY MEDIOCRE MIND TO THE MADNESS
OMFG LOOK AN ALLITERATION.
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