NaNoWriMo Preparations?

Ooh, I'm inspired! I suppose this weekend I'll clean off my computer table, and especially put away the knitting, the stack of paperbacks, and all the other odds and ends that have ended up on top of the monitor for some reason. As for snacks, I was planning to start a diet in November...hmm, probably not a great idea. Then again, I can't eat with both hands typing, so I'll just have to type without cessation!

On a more practical note, I'm frantically trying to finish some revisions before next week, and Saturday I sent off a manuscript after finishing its final revisions. I've been doing nothing but revising for two months now, so I'm really looking forward to starting my Nano project.

I figured I would just panic. It's working so far.

I do have a bag of M&M dark chocolates and a bag of Hershey Truffle kisses to keep me going. That should be good until the end of the first weekend.

Guess I might want to work on an outline

Karen

Catch up on my homework. Write an essay. Write another one. Finish The Hobbit. Read that Freud book. Finish Don Quixote.

Buy food so I don't have to leave the dorm for meals. Steal a lot from the dining hall. Clean off my desk. Buy Twizzlers.

Keep writing down ideas on the three sheets of paper taped to my dorm wall next to my bed. Finish "Meetings on Trains"... send it off to my beta. Aggggh.


Go mad.

I have cleaned out the computer room (which was still really junky from partially unpacked boxes from our move 9 months ago) and now have a pristine working space before the PC (so I don't have to sit in the living room by the TV with the laptop).

I've also been working on some basic plotting, but that's not looking to be done anytime soon, what with work getting in the way and all....

I went and purchased a 21" lcd display.. oohh baby, 1600x1200 resolution and it rotates up to portrait mode, I can fit an entire page on the screen at a time and its quasi-legible!

-Clean my bedroom. It's where I write.
-World building
-Finish reading my two books on how to write science fiction and fantasy. One is byOrson Scott Card and the other is by Gerrold can't remember the last name. His book is called "Worlds of Wonder". I saw it last in my bathroom and now I can't find it. :sigh:
-I have MS Word for my PC thanks to my mom.
-Try and rewrite my mermaid story "Algae in Bloom" and send it out.

I'm planning a full-on panic attack. Other than that . . . Oh, and stocking up on sugary substances.

Maybe I should nap from now until November 1st?

Let's see...

Co-Wr-- *smacks hand* Serenity and I have decided to work on the next book in our trilogy, rather than start a brand new novel/new universe. Our brains are in that world right now, and I've been telling others to go where the muses drag you, so....

I'm tweaking Book One and biting my nails about posting some in SYW. Trying to decide which flavored coffee creamers will take me through November. Checking my stash of sugary treats. Wondering if the grocery store will stock enough Honey Brown for the month.

Oh yeah, plotting, plotting, plotting!

Looks like I'll be away from a PC for the first 2 or 3 weeks of November. Oh well, maybe next year.

I don't prepare. I just start typing on November 1st and finish on the last day of the month.

chaostitan said:

Wondering if the grocery store will stock enough Honey Brown for the month.

Oh yeah, plotting, plotting, plotting!

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Honey Brown. Sure. She just wants me to pass out so she can write whatever she wants.

I'm trying to figure out another character in the universe that played a part in the first book, (God, that still feels good to say!) but wasn't the focus. He's getting more involved in the next and I have to get into his head a bit more.

I'm ridden with feelings that I SHOULD prepare but I have no time right now... I need to plot, I had no plot last year and it was a disaster. I have no time to plot! My plot is weak! Plotplotplot! Help!

I am also seriously considering turning down freelance work so that I have more time to nano...

I have midterms all November, Christmas shopping season begins, anniversary, birthdays. . . should I just shoot myself now?

Seriously, though, I've jotted down a vague idea of the novel I want to write, character descriptions, etc., etc., is that cheating? This is my first time with NaNoWriMo.

TheIT said:

For practicality, I put a footstool next to the computer desk so my cat has somewhere close to sleep rather than on my keyboard.

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It is refreshing to see that optimism is still alive and well somewhere!

Anyone else wanna take some gambling action on just how ignored the footstool is once the cat figures out that the footstool is where it's *supposed* to be rather than the keyboard?

Rabe...
...servant of the Kitties of DOOM!

Moonfish said:

I'm ridden with feelings that I SHOULD prepare but I have no time right now... I need to plot, I had no plot last year and it was a disaster. I have no time to plot! My plot is weak! Plotplotplot! Help!

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Hi Moonfish,

How can we help?

...besides chanting "plotplotplotplot!" along with you?

There's always the Adopt A Plot thread over on Nano that might inspire you.

Encouraging thoughts coming your way!

Don't forget to use all of your resources, including this wonderful sub-forum. Plot problems are fun to work out with other folks.

I've been plotting, planning and preparing for the last two days.

ie: Stocking up on Rum, Coffee, and sugar.

I intend to eat all the Halloween candy that my kids bring home.

Preparations? Hmmm....I'm frantically trying to finish up current WIPs so that they don't bug me during NaNo. I am the ghost of projects past. Finish me or I will haunt you! Whooooooo!

I think Soccer Mom might be on to something here . . . Perhaps we Nano'ers should all go Trick or Treating and load up on sugary treats ?

By the time Thanksgiving rolls around (in the US) we'll be coming down from that high !