NaNoWriMo begins on November 1!

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I forgot to ask this at the prep session... but this is important information for us as it allows us to focus our outreach efforts. Please let us know how you learned about NaNoWriMo.

Thanks,
--Tim

P.S. Back in 2003, I read about it on slashdot.

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Nov 5, 2010 - 09 34

I think I first heard about it in 2006 or 2007 while cruising around LJ and various fanfiction sites. It took me a while and a few false starts, but now I'm joining in the fun :)

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Nov 4, 2010 - 23 48

My friend from my writer's group talked about it last month and I decided it might be fun to do. I love making up stories (obviously), so I thought, why not?

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Nov 2, 2010 - 07 30

I heard about it my Sophmore year of college. That was 2000.

I gave it my first serious attempt in 2007.

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Oct 30, 2010 - 15 42

I found out about it from my daughter, user name: ilovehimm., so I sent a link for the site to a writer buddy of mine a few hundred miles from here.

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Oct 24, 2010 - 15 20

I read a series of books and when looking for more by that author I found a fansite and joined out of boredom. There was a thread in the forums about NaNoWriMo and I had no clue what it was. I asked but there are only like six or so active members - there were thousands who joined but all inactive - and none were online for a while so I searched it in Google and found this site. =)

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Oct 23, 2010 - 20 02

I found out about it from various Youtubers that participate.

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Oct 14, 2010 - 12 10

I heard about it years ago, like some others in this forum, though I never paid it too much mind at the time due to being exhaustively wrapped up in my own projects and university. Then a good friend, the ML for Greenville now, got heavily involved and kept spurring me to try it out. I finally took a shot at it, really got involved in 2008, and the rest is success. :)

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NaNoWriMo region: Ferndale, MI | Naperville, IL
Genres: Urban contemporary; fantasy, sci-fi; speculative; historical

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Oct 12, 2010 - 20 45

I'm participating in a round robin story over on Fanfiction.net, and I've been having writer's block recently, so I've sat out the past few rounds. The leader, Kat, suggested I try this, to help me get over the writer's block.

So, I learned about this via The Pit.

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Peace is but a shadow of death,
Desperate to forget it's painful past...
Though we hope for promising years
After shedding a thousand tears,
Yesterday's sorrow constantly nears
And while the moon still shines blue,
By dawn, it will turn to scarlet h

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Oct 10, 2010 - 13 37

In October 2007 my now roommate, then just friend, Erin.

She said, "Tell me I'm not crazy and that I could easily write 50,000 words."

I replied, "You're an awesome writer and I'm sure you can do it, but why 50,000? That seems like a sort of random number."

She then explained that she had signed up for NaNoWriMo. I did the tradtional "WTF is that?" She explained and within a week, I too was signed up.

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~*~*~*~*~
2007 - Changeling Wars: 50,030 Words!
2008 - Siren: 50,052 Words!
2009 - In Her Head: 61,017 Words!
2010 - Magic in the Dance: it's not quite November yet!

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Oct 10, 2010 - 13 09

Heard about it on a forum post at the Railway Arms, a Life on Mars fansite where I had been posting fan fic for that program. That particular forum unleashed the fanfic monster in me, and one of the members there asked if I was doing NaNo, to which the reply was of course "What's that?" (same as many above posters have said). There are a few TRA members still on my list of writing buddies.

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Oct 9, 2010 - 08 47

I found a copy of Chris Baty's book at a used book sale.

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Oct 4, 2010 - 21 33

I heard about Nano last year through the forums at Absolute Write.

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Nano 2009: Astrid and the Hex 19,894/50,000
Nano 2010: Cloud on Title

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I heard about it years ago, but in passing and didn't participate. Then, while in college, one of my friends did nano and I decided it seemed like a thing to do. I didn't win that year or the next, due to being in my university's opera pit (I play violin) which took five hours or so a night from my nano. I also discovered that it's hard to go home and write after watching various people die on stage for the entire opera I played La Bohem one year and Romeo and Juliet the next... :(

Anyway that was probably way to much information. I'm hyped up on caffein and have random memories coming through my brain that seem to need to be written down here. Sorry!

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NaNo 2007: A New Kind of Power (around 30000)
NaNo 2008: Hell's the Pits (25000)
NaNo 2009: Cadence (WON!)
NaNo 2010:

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Oct 4, 2010 - 14 54

If I recall correctly, in 2001 I saw a little by-line for it on one of the livejournals I read way back then. I thought it was interesting, but I totally forgot about it. Then, I stumbled over it again in August of 02 and said, 'Hey, I want to do that!' So I did.

This will be my ninth year!

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veis

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Oct 3, 2010 - 21 01

A friend of mine told me about it. :3 It sounded great, and I love writing (albeit randomly) - so that's why I'm here! ^^;

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Oct 3, 2010 - 20 07

Aww. Sucks. Would have been epic if you had gotten in. Was there a specific part you were going for?

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The opposite of war isn't peace, it's creation!

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Alright. There were a total of three callbacks (more than I've ever been through!) and I made it to the end of the second. They didn't call for the third. :u( Ah well...

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wordrebel wrote:
@CameronDaye - LOVE LOVE LOVE your sig!!! I'm a RentHead since '97 - I even auditioned in '99!

I'm more of a recent Renthead- if I had been a fan in '97, I would've been about a year old, and that would be strange :P
And I'm interested as to how that audition went...

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The opposite of war isn't peace, it's creation!

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@CameronDaye - LOVE LOVE LOVE your sig!!! I'm a RentHead since '97 - I even auditioned in '99!

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wordrebel
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Oct 3, 2010 - 17 11

I remember I was working on story that was taking way too long when someone asked me, seemingly out of nowhere, if I was working on my NaNoWriMo novel. I asked what most people do when they are posed that question, "What the hell is that?!"

...my life hasn't been the same since!

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Oct 3, 2010 - 12 26

I found it while I was doing random internet searches. I'm not sure what the keywords were.

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The opposite of war isn't peace, it's creation!

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In 2005 one of my LiveJournal friends did NaNoWriMo and posted her prep work and story all throughout October and November. I didn't do it then because I was crazy busy in college.

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