Re: Introduce yourself to the region!

TogetherAgain
Sun, 30 Oct 2011 23:15:07 -0500

Hello! My name is Lisa. Or TogetherAgain. Or "hey you." Whatever you want to call me.

I live in Gurnee, and I have to say, the kick off event yesterday was DEFINITELY worth the hour drive, so I guess I'll be coming in for some write-ins, too. I recently graduated from ISU with a degree in English, which means I don't have a job and I'm living with Mom and Dad. I figured this was the perfect year to try NaNoWriMo. I've heard about it for years, but I could never remember which month it was, and then when I figured out it was November I couldn't believe anyone who was in college would attempt it because November is a month of death by deadlines. No such excuse this year.

Perhaps I sound naive, but my main concern for this, my first NaNoWriMo, is not being able to reach 50,000 words. Partly because of the unemployment thing, but also because I've probably written about that much in a month with Muppet fanfiction. (I am obsessed with the Muppets. New movie coming to theaters November 23. I don't expect to write much that day. I will be spending most of it in the theater.) I'm more concerned about being able to write 50,000 words OF THE SAME STORY. I'm not usually very good at staying focus--BUNNY!

*cough* Erm... I was saying. I have my story pretty well plotted out, along with the kingdom it takes place in and the four surrounding kingdoms. Usually, that's what slows down my writing--I need to know EVERY possible detail just to figure out an entirely unimportant character's name, and I can't write one sentence more until I have named that entirely unimportant character. So I did all of that ahead of time--or at least, I HOPE I've covered all of it. I now know the name of the wife of the crown prince of the kingdom to the west, so... Hopefully that's it.

And now, I'm just excited to start writing! Is it November yet? Is it? Is it? Huh? Is it?