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Are you participating? I am. I'm hoping to use it to finish a current project - or at least get myself going again. If anyone would like to be writing buddies, I'm mariadkins at the NaNo website.
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Joined: 8/13/2011
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Yeah, I'm in. Barring miraculously finding a job in the next few weeks or blowing up my PC, I'll be spamming away at my latest lunacy. However, this year I'm not doing what I did two years ago and doubling the word count. Do not do that. It hurts.
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Oh goodness. I'd be more than brain dead!
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Joined: 8/13/2011
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The worst of it? I missed 100K by 500 words at midnight. Was not best pleased.
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oh geeze 
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Joined: 5/10/2011
Posts: 88
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I just joined. This will be my first year doing NaNoWriMo and I'm fairly excited/nervous. Will be starting a new story in a genre I'm familiar with (my current project is in a new genre and I'm finding it difficult to move forward) so I'm hoping that writing the familiar will help me with my attempt to branch out!
username is Asilisis if anyone wants to find me. 
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good luck! 
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Joined: 4/30/2011
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I was going to do it this year, but I'm using it to finish my current WIP instead of putting it aside and starting a book I really, really want to write. I don't know where I'll be starting November. I could just be in the editing stages, so I'm not going to sign up.
Anyway, good luck to all who try this year. I hope you succeed in your endeavors.
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I'll be using it to finish a project. I hope. :knocks wood:
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Joined: 3/29/2011
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This will be my ninth Nanowrimo. I use it as a litmus test to find out if an idea is actually worth it, but the last few years haven't been as good as others.
Want to buddy me? I'm amber-h on the Nano site.
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awesome!
my regional MLs are getting their calendar together, and i just created flyers to hang around my apartment complex and various other locations.
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Joined: 3/14/2011
Posts: 226
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At this point, I'm in, but I'm not necessarily going for 50k in one project. I have a NaNo project from 2009 that needs another 20-30k, and a novella I want to start (that's what I'll be working on at the start of November), but I anticipate that being only 30-40k. I don't need that button that says I wrote 50k so much as I want to get these two books finished. If I do that under 50k, then I count it as a win. 
I'm selestiele on NaNo's site.
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Hey, that works for me!
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Joined: 3/9/2011
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I'm in though I've had a few writing friends suggest I skip out this year because I should focus on editing the novels I have close to ready instead of writing a new one. But oh well.
I'm not sure on my goal yet. I've done nanowrimo 5 years before. 2010 I made 50k in 13 days but didn't write after that. 2011 I made it to 50 in 11 days and kept writing with a total of 125k on two different novels (one I still need to finish writing). This year, I would like the novel rough draft to maybe be done, so that'd be about 80k but if I finish early enough I might go back to the one of 5 novels I have in first draft form and work on finishing one of them.
But in December, I'm editing the novels I've already done rewrites for and spent years working on in hopes of having them ready for beta readers soon.
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Sounds busy!
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Are we ready!?
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Joined: 8/13/2011
Posts: 272
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It has begun!
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Joined: 5/10/2011
Posts: 88
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So far, I haven't written a single word. Stayed up until midnight so I could start immediately. Then stared at a blank screen for ten minutes.
Decided today would be better...
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hang in there!
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Joined: 5/10/2011
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I will.. It's just unfortunate that the day NaNo starts I'm questioning the entire concept of my story. Blah!
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This is normal!!
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Joined: 8/13/2011
Posts: 272
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Heck, I came up with an idea yesterday that feels so much easier than this one.
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Joined: 5/10/2011
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haha, I'm so glad to hear that it's normal!
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Joined: 4/30/2011
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I just want to wish you all luck! May the words by ever in your favor!
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Joined: 8/13/2011
Posts: 272
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So I've finished my first chapter. Which is ~5k. Which makes me a day behind schedule.
Things are going as well as usual.
How's everyone else doing?
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I'm up to 7160 total. Today, though, I have to do some for hire editing work and be a grown-up before I get into anything else.
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Joined: 3/13/2011
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I'm in and way behind because I was at World Fantasy Con... but I did post the beginning of my project to the site.
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Joined: 5/10/2011
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Is anyone else posting their NaNo project? I'm going to post mine after I've edited it - some of the worst writing I've ever done is hidden in those pages...
As for my progress - I'm at ~ 14,000... but I only got ahead because starting today, I have next to no time to write until Saturday!
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Joined: 8/13/2011
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I've already posted my first chapter (editing? What's that?), but I'm mostly in awe of you Lisa. How on earth did you manage to get that far ahead of schedule?
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Joined: 3/16/2011
Posts: 279
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I'm participating again this year. I won last year and I'm looking to win again this year. My word count is at 13,842 so far.
http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/participants/danielleebowers
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I'm about three days behind. whoopie!! oy!
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Joined: 8/13/2011
Posts: 272
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I am three days behind. It's fine, I can write 5k in a day.
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Joined: 10/20/2011
Posts: 350
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I'm the late Nancy who decides a week in to do NaNoWriMo. I originally wasn't going to so I could focus on editing "The Wedding Game" but then an idea grabbed me...so I ran with it.
I'm albrim on the website.
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Joined: 11/7/2012
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Gulp. NaNoWriMo is what's getting me to go beyond the 5,000 words I wrote for my first novel about 6 months ago. Fear paralyzed me and life got in the way - I let myself get distracted and saw about NaNoWriMo on Twitter and decided to let it help with motivation. Twitter also introduced me to Book Country, so hi
I'm krisedu on the NaNo site.
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My NaNo ship seems to be sinking. I'm barely at 11k words. What about everyone else?
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Joined: 8/13/2011
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I'm at 22k at the moment, which puts me well behind and I've just reached the end of the actual planned plot, so I'm now winging it, which helps.
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keep going! and good luck!
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i hit 30k yesterday.
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Joined: 10/20/2011
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Congrats. I'm nowhere near that but it's not like I'm going to stop writing once December 1st hits.
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I've had the flu all week, so I've not written any at all since Monday morning. But, like you, I'm not going to stop writing just because December first rolls around. This is a year-round thing for me.
A friend of mine hosts / participates in a JulNoWriMo every summer. I join in that, too. It gives me a nice boost.
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Joined: 10/20/2011
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"This is a year-round thing for me."
Exactly! And I'm having fun with this story as well.
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Joined: 8/13/2011
Posts: 272
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Today's Experiment: Failed.
I got to 45k today before work and sleep deprivation took me down.
What went wrong:
1) Not going into it with a plan. When you hit 30k and realise it's still grinding into first gear, you've gone very wrong somewhere.
2) Hating what I'd written. In short, it dimply wasn't working. I was hopping from scene to scene hoping that something was going to click into place. It didn't.
What went right:
1) Having written out a chunk of House Guardian, I now know where the plot simply doesn't work. When I get round to mk2, I'll be doing some very heavy cutting to purify the rest.
2) Getting annoyed with it all, I knocked out a 6k short story to go along with Slide the Scales from My Eyes, what I wrote last year that I'm edging towards kicking at Amazon to see what happens. Not only has this helped me get a bit of a better idea of the second most important character of my book, it's also really helped me flesh out my world.
It wasn't a total bust, in other words.
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I topped out at 34,160. The site has my official count at 33 something, but I failed to get over there to record my number for today before counting closed.
Tim, I don't think NaNo is ever a total bust.
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