I had no idea this community existed till I posted in my LJ about doing a "NaDiHaTiNoNoWriMo" (National I Didn't Have Time in November Novel Writing Month) in January and a friend directed me here. I'm really excited! November is a horrible month for me with college, so winter break is a much better time!

I'm Rachael, by the way. I've never done NaNoWriMo, but I wrote a novel for my senior project in High school a few years ago, which I'm now trying to get to an agent. I'll be using this time to work on the second book in the series.

I can't wait to begin! So Nice to find others like me!

-Rachael

I'd just like to introduce myself to the community

The name is Ali and I'm an alcoholic... LoL no but I've attempted NanoWriMo several times and failed miserably.
Mostly because its a bad month you know? However, in January of '07 I attempted JaNo and it went much better for me. So I'd really like to try this again! Go JaNo '09!!!!

Also, over at the NaNo com they had this thread... http://community.livejournal.com/nanowrimo/1893375.html but I'm thinking... JaNoWriMo comm... no voting involved!!!

So yeah I'm pimping this comm and will continue to do so until otherwise informed... (note to Mods: I'm sorry if this is an unwelcome post, so feel free to delete but please don't delete me *blinks big sad eyes*)

Please don't ask me why if I know Novembers don't work for me why I continue to subject myself to them... *hangs head*

One last thing, if anyone is reading this a quick comment maybe to get caught up with everyone, who feels like JaNo '09 sounds good to them?

Thank you for your time!!!
~Malicia Starling

Well, I beat 15K today. I'm a bit behind from where I've wanted to be, but so far things are coming along really well. After I hit about 25K I really have no idea what direction I'm going to go. There are a lot of ways I could go with this whole alternate history WW2 idea. I'm hoping my characters take over and tell me where they want to go! :-) Otherwise I seriously need inspiration over the weekend.

How are your wordcounts? Any revelations you care to share?

Also is anyone posting sample segments like you'd have on your NaNo profile? And how? Or are we just skipping that feature this time around?

Oh god... why? Why did I have to stumble upon this..., Im just now recovering from NaNo... blink... must do JaNo! lols... whimper. Well looks like Im a bit behind, oh well what the hey right? Twitch... Hi my names Seth Marie. Right now I have no clue what Im going to write about or what Im going to do to catch up....... IHOP here I come... whimper. lol

So how's everyone doing so far, wordcount wise, or otherwise? I haven't broken 1,000 yet. It's been a combination of laziness, post-holiday socialising, and too much school work to catch up on. I do hope to get a lot written tonight, though. I think I've finally got a fairly good handle on what exactly I'm writing here.

How about you guys? Share your triumphs/frustrations!

I'm up for sprints or wars on AIM. See previous posts for my screen name. :-)

I'm behind and a little down, but I'll make it!

grr!

Anyone want to share their word counts for the day?

( Put behind the cut, because I know a lot of people don't like looking at other people's word counts. Learned that from Nanowrimo )

Who else wants to share?

Also, I'm still on AIM as AngelWithPen for anyone who wants to have sprints or wars again.

Does anyone have a source for a good one? The Zokoutu one doesn't seem to work anymore...

Since there has been a lack of objections or other options, I would like to meet up with some janowrimo participants, and maybe have some sprints/word wars, or just talk about what we're writing about. If enough people are interested, maybe we can put together a chatroom.

Find me on AIM as AngelwithPen!

Let's chat! It's New Year's eve, and I'm in Pacific Standard time, so everyone is ahead of me time wise so I'm still counting down the New Year. Therefore, I can't promise I won't be away from the computer. But, drop me a message!

AngelwithPen!

I'm excited.

Happy CE New Year everyone!

(also posted in my personal journal)