Re: Introduce yourself to the region!

TeenWriter
Wed, 26 Oct 2011 21:46:37 -0500

Hi, everyone! My name is Mary and I live in the Southwest suburbs, but I trek up to Naperville a lot during November for the great group of NaNo-ers. This will be my fifth year participating in NaNo. I've won every year I've participated, but that doesn't mean the stories were any good. This is only my third year as a part of the NaperWriMo community, but I've found that the write-ins and sense of community really help me. This year, I've been interning in Chicago and this means I have a monthly train pass to the city. Because of this nice little coincidence, I'm going to try to make it to some of the write-ins in the city -- exciting!

My novel this year is about a group of people who have extraordinary abilities and their quest to find out how they got that way. I've been watching a lot of "The X-Files" in the past four months, so that's definitely influencing my novel idea this year. I'm nervous, but also excited -- the usual NaNo emotional cocktail!

Good luck, everyone!