Novel in 90

Hello, all.

I've been a successful WriMo three times in the past, but like some others here, my RL obligations have finally gotten so heavy that I no longer feel able to keep up with NaNo and the rest of my workload during November. So I have come here to attach myself to a less demanding daily word count. :)

Truthfully, I have no outline or official story that I'm writing. I used to write quite a lot when I was younger, but apart from throwaway stories that I constructed specifically for top NaNo efficiency, I haven't written anything worth mentioning in at least the last five years. While I have lofty dreams of someday transforming into a hyperdrive novelling BAMF with vast seas of published works and millions of adoring fans worldwide, right now I just feel like something important in me has been lost because I stopped writing. So I have the very simple goal of just needing to write anything regularly enough to keep that part of me alive. It feels as if this would help me to stay connected to something very vital, even if my output ends up being random chunks of text that are void of context (or continuations of old stories that have been collecting dust for all this time).

Since I've started four days in, I purposely sat down and jammed on a doc until I got 3026 words, just to catch up with the herd. ;) If I post any pieces of what I write for NI90, then they will probably be going into ark_lights. My main journal has been silent for a long time because it's been hard for me to even write about myself recently, but I do lurk around LJ daily. Thanks for letting us random folk be a part of this. ^_^

--E.G.

So I'm going to try and join the fun here. I've never been able to do a NaNo, but this sounds very achievable.

I'm Rachel. *waves hello* I have a YA novel idea I've been working on for a year now and I can finally work on it without feeling guilty, cause I finished the last edits on my last WIP. I'm already 20,000wds in. But will be cutting about 10,000 of that next week when I start the rewrite of the sketch beginning. All said and done, I think it'll be about 90,000 to 100,000 words. I think. I really don't know. LOL It's a dystopian (at least that what people keep calling it) faerie novel, set in furture New York City.

Is there anything else I'm supposed to say? I'm really bad at this, can you tell?

 So, my word count today, so far, is zero. But I hope to come back later and give a better number.

Hi. My name is DWH, and I suck at introductions. :)

That said, I was encouraged to post one, so I'll give it a shot anyway. Let's see. linterambiel mentioned this community in one of her LJ posts, so I checked it out. Seemed like an interesting idea- and much more feasible than NaNo. This year, at least. One way or another, I'll likely be moving around the beginning of November, I just don't know where yet. So with a big move in the plans, NaNo isn't going to be so much of a happening thing. But 750 words a day? Sure. I can sustain that, I think. So far, I'm not doing too badly, I just need to sit down and do it.

So, yeah. At present, I'm unemployed, giving me tons of time to sit around and be a slacker. I have a fan fiction WIP that I've been writing for three years now, and it still isn't finished. So, project number one: get to the end of it. It's already about 85K, and I figure it has at least another 20K in it.

That doesn't get me to the end of the challenge, but that's okay. I have another WIP in the same continuity that needs work. So once the first is finished off, I'll continue the party with its prequel. That ought to wrap up the season quite nicely, and hopefully get me into the habit of writing regularly enough that I can actually, you know, finish more projects. :) I know! It's such a concept.

So, that's me. That's all I can think of to say. And on that note, I've got about 300 more words to write today. So I'll go get on that.

Well it occurred to me that I hadn't done an introductory post so here I go.  I've been a lurker off and on but I always seemed to come in, at the middle of rounds and such and never was in time for the beginning. geo4real directed me here, and this time I'm finally in time for a round, so off I go!

I've tried NaNo a few times and I won once. The first time I tried, I fell flat on my face at ten thousand words, the second time, I won, the third time (this year in July), Darth Real Life intervened badly when my mother in law got very sick and passed away, and it took two months instead of one to get to 50,000 like it was supposed to.

But I got three good stories started out of it, one of them a full original the other two are fanfiction, and they have been languishing since I finished them at the beginning of September.

Surely one of them I ought to be able to get 67,500 words on by December 31st. :D

I have a lot of time to write which is both a blessing and a curse at the same time. I'm disabled due to severe heart problems I was born with, and sometimes there are days where I want to do anything except writing, like crocheting or playing with my cat, reading, anything, even just sitting and doing absolutely nothing, and staring blankly at my computer.

I'm hoping that having a deadline again will give my muse the swift kick it needs.

Hello, I'm new here.  This was recommended to me by others already here (hi mindseas!) and I'm so glad this exists because it's exactly what I need:  a daily prod to my conscience.  My goal so far has been 500 words a day, but since I'm already failing at that, I might as well fail at 750 words a day, right?  

Anyway, I think this will really help keep me honest and motivated.  I'm about 33,000 words into a novel that should run about 100,000, so 90 days at 750 really could do it.  

Please feel free to castigate, scold, admonish, and otherwise utterly flay my literary hide for not keeping up.  

Thanks,

KZ

I made a post earlier today on my LJ to mumble about the writing process and review two word processors I've been playing with, and a friend mentioned being a member of this community. I immediately had to pop over and found that this group is exactly what I need.

I'm Mala, and I'm a baby novelist with aspirations of being published, though I've been writing (mostly short) fiction for years. I've tried my hand at nano and hated the time constraints-- nevermind juggling end of term work. While I set myself with a goal of 500 words a day, I'm not very good at making myself stick to them without someone shaking a finger at me. I'm currently in the early-middle stages writing a first draft of a novel, hopefully the first I'll actually manage to finish. I've got a lot of other books floating around in my head trying to distract me, but I vowed to just sit down and finish one.

I have no idea what my word count is since half of what I have is handwritten, but I promise all my word counts here will be fresh for this round. I just wish I'd known about this group when I was starting out!

Oh, and just for fun, but if anyone knows about a spreadhsheet like The Nanowrimo Report Card (links to an Excel Spreadsheet) or a way to edit it, I'd really appreciate it! I've been playing with it but I can't get the sums to come out right. It's not too important, but I always did like having that pretty little graph showing my progress.

Oh, man, I am notoriously bad at these things, but. Hello, I'm carla and/or Em (pen name, real name, either one's fine), I'm very new, I'm a one-time NaNo washout and frustrated fanwriter who is going to finish this one, dammit, because it's just too cool not to. I know I'm late for this round, but I figured it was better than sitting on my hands and letting another idea sort of float off into nowhere.

*deeep breath* Nice to meet you all?

I just wanted to say hello to everyone here.

I've just found the site today by clicking on various links and needless to say I'm interested. Currently working on an outline for a novel that will be part of a trilogy, but will not go back to writing the few chapters I have started until June 1st. My goal is to finish the first book of the trilogy with in three months, plot the second book, and by the end of the year be half way finished with that one. So, in the meantime I will be lurking and trying to learn the ins and outs of community etiquette, so I won't make any major snafus once I begin posting more regularly.

--Aaron



"Most people over estimate what they can do in a day and under estimate what they can do in a year."

                                                    --Tony Robbins

Hi, I just found this and I'm joining in, a little late. I have some stuff I've already written in April, so I might add that to my word count, if that's okay.  This is my first post ever on livejournal, so if I do anything wrong or weird, just tell me.

750 words a day can't be that bad after NaNo . . .

Thanks!

Ok. I'm jumping in. Feeling bit techno-challenged just getting connected to the community, but looking forward to the process.

Happy to be joining you all.

I've finally decided to jump in.    How hard can it be,...LOL...it only took me a year to jump in. 
Here goes 750 words a day!  Posting to LiveJournal and to novel_in_90 is very new to me, so please feel free to point me in the right direction if I should go astray or break some rule unknown to me. 

Thanks,
Denise
 

Hi folks. I'm new! After four years in a row attempting NaNoWriMo being completely interrupted at some point in that month by Major Life Things, I have determined that single-month novels are unlikely, particularly if that month is November. I like this community's format better too, and the higher word count goal and floating timelines.

Anyway, I've got a new novel I was just starting (maybe one day I'll even finish one of the older ones) and this seems like a space I'd like to challenge myself to write it with. For the plot-curious, it's a specfic about people's interaction with a drug that, for lack of a better couple-word explanation, creates superpowers. People's efforts to create it, to get hold of it, to get others to stop using it. Hopefully the cheesier bits will be made of win anyway (I've accepted cheesiness will happen in novels; the most recent tabled novel was about vampires in space, and that I do want to get back to).

So, hi! -dives in-

...yet another new-comer.  Hello, everyone! 

I am joining up with a friend of mine so that we can concentrate on the story ideas that have been gnawing at us for years.  Let's call the story I'm working on 'Untitled.'  'Untitled' is a fantasy focusing on loyalty to duty verses self, court politics, romance, and How to Almost Escape Your Kidnapper in 82 Different Ways.  It's about 30,000 words and currently stuck in the middle of some dialogue.

I'm looking forward to getting to meet and work with you all.  Word count for me will start tomorrow.  Thanks to the mods for providing this place to get mocked motivated to write!

Hi everybody!
I took a pause last round but now I'm back! Same project as last time (urban fantasy set in the city of Malmö, Sweden) that HAS to be done by mid March. Since I missed the first week I start tomorrow and will be one week behind you all.
It's nice to be back on track.

But HEY, I'm doing it anyway. I know what, I'll combine this with an intro post so it'll at least have some purpose other than me clogging. Hi! I'm Moi (AKA the_red_shoes on LJ) ("HI MOI"), I've never finished a novel, I've started and abandoned more than I can count, I did win NaNo one year but punked out the other 3 times I tried it, and I tried novel_in_90 last year and punked out on that too. So uh yeah! Here I am again.

Anyway, my husband and I got Sleeper Cell from Netflix (which is FANFREAKINGTASTIC, if you haven't seen it) and we are RIGHT in the middle of it....and I asked for a half-hour, 45-min break so I could try to get my words in. Because I want to write, dammit. That's why I'm here. That's why we're all here.

So, thank you to matociquala and jonquil and everyone else who's ever had a hand in the comm, and thank you to all of you, because your being here is why I'm here. So just....thanks. This is something special.

(And as of now it's 9:40 PM on the left coast! Shit.)

Hi there! I'm Yevgenie, and I got pointed toward this community when I was looking for a way to keep the writing alive after NaNo. I've been writing for a while, no publications but a couple rejections under the belt, and want to keep on improving and sending stuff out. I have a ton of projects on the dock; the biggest one is finishing my NaNo novel, which is 50k right now, on track to end at 80k, and really should end around 100k. After that, I've got another novel needing a rewrite and 12k new words, and a third needing some bits rewritten and about 25k additional words. Which is not exactly counting the revision for all those works. [flails]

I'm hoping that the prospect of being mocked will keep my butt firmly glued to the chair. I expect I'll be doing a bit of averaging, as I wind up travelling more frequently than I usually realize (oof), but as long as I get the words down in the week, everything will be good, right? Right.

Nice to meet you, and looking forward to working with you!

jpsorrow reminded me of this community, and since I started a novel yesterday, and need to have it done...well, 90 days is too many, really, but if it takes 90, so be it. Anyway, it seemed like now was as good a time as any to join up. I'll certainly participate in this round. No idea if I'll continue on after (although there's another book due June 1, so it might be another case of No Time Like The Present).

Hi, I'm Catie (waits for the chorus of responses), I'm a novelist and have been for fifteen years. This is my first Ni90 posting, but I'm sure it won't be my last. I write under C.E. Murphy, and my WIP for this challenge is THE PRETENDER'S CROWN, Book Two of the Inheritors' Cycle. I figure it'll come in around 140,000 words, so I've got a lot of work to do.

I'll post wordcount updates on the sound-offs on Friday.

Hi all! I've heard about this group but always been too chicken-sh*t to join before. The New Year gave me some incentive, so, here I am. Pleased to report that today, I got 1,050 words. YEAH me! Now, if I can just stick with it...but the threat of mocking may be just what I need.

Hi all,

My name is C, and unforth just told me about this group yesterday. I've been trying for 2,000 words a day on my own, but this was zero fun and rather lonely, so going for just 750 a day looks a lot more manageable, and having a support network sounds fantastic. I'm starting from scratch, and the new project deals mostly with talking crows and homeless children. It's my first attempt at a novel since high school, and I'm excited to work on it.

How many other people here are writing in the magical realism/surrealist genre?

Coming to you from the International Date Line, it's the word count! (Okay, so I'm not at the dateline. I cheated.)

"I collect unusual names. I have notebooks full of them. Some of the names I made up, like Quidditch, Malfoy. Other names mean something -- Dumbledore, which means "bumblebee" in Old English...seemed to suit the headmaster, because one of his passions is music and I imagined him walking around humming to himself. And so far I have got names from saints, place-names, war memorials, gravestones. I just collect them -- I am so interested in names."
   - J.K. Rowling

How do you come up with names? This can vary by genre. But even if you can pick from contemporary names, how do you go about it? Did you introduce a new character in today's 750 to replace the one you killed off (or are planning to kill off) this week? How'd you do, everyone?

Edit: Sorry for the confusion, folks. If anything, I was just being silly and taking the early posting bit to an extreme. I get confused as well. Because of my work schedule, I'm doing my 750 after I get home late, so it's almost always before midnight, and I'm in GMT-8, so I always have to go back one.

Edit II: LJ won't let me take the "sound off!" tag off.