Who's planning for NaNo 2010?

[twistingthetale]

Hi folks, just a quick post to find out if any of you have started to make plans for NaNo this year? As yet I haven't made a start on 'serious' planning, but I'll be writing about werewolves during the Victorian era. This will be my third NaNo, and it will be set in the same location as my two previous novels even though they don't form a trilogy (although there is more than just the location that links them).

I'm also taking part in the Two Year Novel course (2YN) at the Forward Motion site, which is a lot of fun and very useful. Hopefully I'll be able to use what I've learned so far with my NaNo planning :) With the course work and other projects that I'm working on, editing last year's NaNo - and 2008's - has yet to begin, but after a thorough read-through once it was printed I have an idea of which areas are in obvious need of attention.

This community was a great source of encouragement last year, so if any of you are taking the plunge again this year I look forward to working with you again :)

Comments

[dragonscrawl]

I think it's too early for me to call if I will be participating for sure, but I'll probably be writing the sequel to last year's novel if I do. With that in mind, at least part of my preparations are already done.

[naraht]

I've actually been thinking about trying to finish the story I was working on last year. I got to 50k on, I think, the 23rd of the month, which was exciting but after that I dropped it and it's still only about half finished.

I know this is not technically within the rules of NaNo but it would be a nice push to actually get the thing finished! It's still a long time till November though.

[lurkingcat]

I was sure that I wasn't ever going to try to do anything like that again... but now I have half an idea and I'm seriously considering it ;)

[dreamingpixels]

I always participate in NaNo - it's just how far I get that's the problem. I think that if I plan well, and actually flesh out an outline before October, I should be all set to write! Every year I get a little bit better at it, eheh.

[ariestess]

I've participated every single year since 2002, and I'll participate again this year. As to what I'll do and how far I'll get? No idea yet...

[senmut]

I don't think it is outside the rules, either, as long as you are adding 50k to it this year, not counting what you did last year as part of your word count. I'm in the same boat, never even hit the climax scene, because life drug me away from it after 50k words.

I'll probably start where I left off as Word One, finish it, then start the sequel or add in the bits I left out because I wasn't sure where I was going 100% when I was writing originally. I'd love to put this one to 100k, and then edit it to a manageable level from there.

[naraht]

I think people vary in how absolutist they are about starting from scratch with a new story. I'll end up doing what works for me, although who knows whether I'll have the time in November.

What would mostly be motivating me is very simple curiosity: I want to find out how my novel ends!

[senmut]

YES! That's my problem. I had ten chapters plotted, and knew how they were to go, and in Chapter Four, it turned left at Albuquerque, so now I am all...what? Where are we going...oh, there. But...ending?

[naraht]

I'll admit that I totally misjudged the pacing of my story. I took seriously all the admonitions about how you could write tons of description in order to rack up word count, and it was great fun being atmospheric, but I realized that something was off when I was like 20k in (or was it 30k?) and one of the three main characters hadn't appeared yet. Then I started introducing subplots. And it became clear that I hadn't needed to worry about word count because I had a 100k+ novel on my hands and yet my goal was only 50k. Hmmm.

And I still don't know who the hero ends up with in the end...

[azurelunatic]

Since last year's didn't get off the ground, I'm planning on either it (which means I have to get Book 1 whipped into submission) or the completely-out-of-left-field Cookbook Review for the Terrified (working title). Unless something tackles me between then and now.

Oh help, I cannot be writing Cookbook Review. I can *not* be.

[guardian_of_hope]

I totally plan on writing. I think I'm going to buckle down for Three Days in Hell, provided my laptop doesn't go crash bang boom like the last one did (at the end of the first week of NANO no less).

[ensoot]

I'm definitely participating, and hopefully this year, now that I'm actually out of school, I'll have more time to write. I'm determined to finally break 10k! Small goals, sure, but.

[jaaaarne]

Oh, lets make small goals together. :)

It's the first time I'm planning on participating, and up 'til now I haven't written anything longer than 5k. *gg* I'm terrified like you wouldn't say. *gg* Still I'm determined to do as much as I can. I have a story outlined already and am doing now more thorough planning. Hope it works. *crosses fingers*

[geminianeyes]

If it helps, it took me 4 years and some really awesome friends to get my Nano done. :D You can do it!

[lassarina]

Yes, participating! I got bitten on the nose by a great idea in February, so I'll spend the next several months slowly percolating and planning :)

[ensoot]

Oh man, I totally understand. It's like. this is my fourth NaNo? But last year's NaNo was the first time I even broke 2k on anything I've written. I'm really determined to take it as seriously as possible this year.

Oooh, outlines are good. I know half my problem is that I get so wrapped up in building a setting I end up not knowing where to drive the plot.

[jaaaarne]

My main problem is that I often tend to lose interest in a story when I've gotten all the details down and know how it ends. :) It makes me so annoyed with myself, grrr!

[draigwen]

I would like to join in again although I'm not sure what I'll do. I could do the sequel to last year's, but I want to rewrite last year's first, and the rewrite just isn't happening at the moment.

[finch]

I have deadlines to panic about before then, but I'm vaguely trying to figure out what I want to do this year.

[shiny_crystal]

I'm definitely participating again -- I've been doing NaNo since 2005 and I don't plan on stopping :) No complete outline yet (that one comes along in October, usually), but I have several characters, I know there will be telepaths, it might be set in Prague and I know some of the conflict. Totally looking forward to November!

[dragonjournal]

I kinda sorta plan to? It's only May so the next six months might change my mind. But I'm kinda sorta planning to.

I've been getting new ideas about a story lately that are slowly coming together. Maybe I'll hold off on that until November. FIRST I have to get editing done, and yet another draft on my epic pain in the ass done.

[clare_dragonfly]

I expect it's going to be like last year... I won't plan to participate, because I have lots of other stuff to write and how can I possibly think of it, and then peer pressure will drag me in.

Maybe I'll finish (or at least continue) that novel I started earlier in the year but abandoned because another story was calling so insistently.

And I'm responding to your comment rather than the main post because I love your icon. That quote is going in my little book of writing quotes.

[limelight]

I am definitely participating. I've been working on my thesis novel throughout the past schoolyear, so NaNo hopefully will help me finish it so I can start editing it in Spring.

[xyndarella]

It amuses me to see this post. A few days ago I had a dream that it was suddenly five days into November and that NaNoWriMo had started without me! I was in such a stressed panic that I hadn't thought of what to write about and I was already behind.

I would like to participate again this year. Last year was my first time and I had a lot of fun with it although it was very stressful in parts. I had reached the 50k line by the 25th but I never finished my novel. It ended up with a mind of its own and I just followed my muse.

I'd really like to continue on from what I was writing last year. Maybe add another 50k words but I would also really like to write new material. I see NaNoWriMo as a wonderful writing exercise that gives me ideas that I can maybe re-write later on. Nothing I ever write follows a proper layout.

I don't think I would have done very well last year without the support of this community and its members. The daily prompts for the word counts to keep you on track and the little quotes and questions were a wonderful break. They were also really inspiring at different moments. I hope that it will be the same again for this year.

[syderia]

I'll definitely participate this year. As for what I'll be writing, I have absolutely no idea. Considering that my most successful Nano yet - last year - happened with a story that showed up in my head on Nov, 14th without my having ever thought about it before, I think I'll go with the flow.