Introduce yourself to the region!

Hi! My name is Sharon and this is my 4th attempt at Nanowrimo. I won twice and didn't make it to the start line the 3rd time. I'm a mother with three kids and a husband and I let their time take over my time last year and am committed to ignoring them for the month of November to get this project underway. My husband always likes my novel ideas, but is more excited to see my consider revising when December 1st hits and actually getting something to have people look at. I have two Nanowrimo books just sitting in my computer. I am behind on word count already, but am dedicating the weekend to making up for lost time.

Oh, I am in Naperville only in spirit as our family relocated to England over the summer. We are only here temporarily for a few years and since I still own a house in Naperville, I figured I could still call it home. I have added the closest region to me here in England to my list, but it's still and hour to get to write ins and I could actually be writing for the 2 hours I would be driving. I guess I'm on my own but like coming to the Naperville region to read that other people are getting things done or hitting walls too. Have fun everyone. I better get back to my novel....

Hi,

For this month I'm Adam1. I live in Bolingbrook. This is my first NaNo. I'm doing this because I needed to jump start my 4th vampire novel in the series. And I will admit having a fan post on my character's blog that if I ended the series the way that the last book ended I would lose a fan...well that was my motivation.

I've been making career choices and concentrating more on my romances because the bulk of my fan base is there. It's not that I've been having problems writing, but I did need something to make me change directions for a a few months.

Good luck to all.

Adam1

Hi, I'm Chris Edison from Glen Ellyn. I'm also the Young Adult Llibrarian at Batavia Public Library. Reading all of those YA books has inspired me to try to write my own.

My husband and I run a free writing critique group at College of DuPage. E-mail us at mudbugg@mindspring..com if you'd like our free e-newsletter, and visit us 7:15 p.m. first second and fourth Mondays at COD to listen and/or read.

Hey there!

Jaded Block here. I thought I'd checked in on this thread a few days ago, but apparently not. Anyway, I've tossed my hat in the ring with this NaNoThing a few years over the past six or seven, and made my goal each time, although stressfully so. This year is my first year pantsing, and it's going surprisingly well.

I'm going to end up being one of those annoying people who will talk about going to write-ins and other meetings and never actually will due to crippling social phobias. Please bear with me on this!

Yo, I'm Taylor, and it's my first time on here. I had first heard of it from the people of fictionpress but my mom and one of my friends urged me to start this so here I am.
My idea for this story had developed over the summer, while I was staying at Michigan for a week. My little sister and I had sat and talked about the plot and scenes for this story and now I'm finally writing it out. I've only ever once finished writing out a whole story but I never liked it and believed it sucked so I'm hoping this time, if I finish, that I'll love how it all unfolds out.
By now, I'll probabaly just explore NaNoWriMo and....so yeah

Hmm, how have I not introduced myself yet? I'm Debbi and this is my third year NaNo-ing. I've returned to the Literary Fiction genre but added a little excitement to the extreme character-ing by putting them all through a global pandemic. The great thing about being a writer is that I can do whatever I want to my characters and only feel a small amount of guilt for it :)

Good luck to everyone and have fun!

Hi, Everyone!

I'm AJ, and although I've already introduced myself on this thread, I've finally (today!) figured out what I'm going to write about this November. On the 5th of November! You can read about it here on my page on the NaNoWriMo website - http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/participants/ajey. Because I don't have a laptop computer, and because of my distance from where the write-ins are being held, I probably won't be able to make any of them. They sound fun, though. (I have participated in them in the past.) But I am looking forward to the TGIO party after I have completed my novel! So I'll see some of the rest of you there!

I'm introducing myself so I can get on the graph.

I'm at the Nichols write-in getting ready for another word war so will be short.

Hello. I'm Diane Elizabeth aka DivineLIght

Happy NaNoWriting

Hi, I'm Hollyn from Carol Stream.

One of these years I might actually make the goal....when I don't have so many other things, with more pressing deadlines, that I -have- to write.

Chuck from Winfield here. This is my 4th NaNoWriMo and I'm on track for another win. I've been writing since 1998 and wish I'd found NaNoWriMo earlier.

Hi. I'm Ryan and this is my first NaNoWriMo. I heard about this from listening to Brandon Sanderson's podcast and decided it was what I needed to get me to actually start writing down some of the ideas in my head.

This is the very first story I've ever tried to write. And I'm doing it for NaNoWriMo. Yeah.

So far I'm on track but it's been tough. I probably should have written an outline beforehand but I didn't. I basically had the beginning and ending in my head when I started so it'll be interesting to see if the stuff I'm making up now will get me where I want to be.

I'm Maria and while I call the Chicago Region home, I do like lurking in Naperville ^^. Right now I work as a Nurse Aide in a rehab facility and have been doing so for about 4 years. Working on getting books done as I have put any further schooling out of the picture for the immediate future. And because I work PM shift I don't get to attend a lot of write ins which is a total bummer, but that is what forums are for.

This year I'm writing another book from my vampire romance series. Right now I have no idea where this one is going to fit in number wise, but that is for me to see in December and not worry about now. So far there have been some twists I did not think would happen and I'm quite happy with them. My aim is to be finished NaNo by Nov 16th as I have a convention I'm going out of town for and thus I won't have computer or internet access most of the 5 days I'll be gone. So to avoid the yearly guilt I have dealt with in the past, I want to finish the novel earlier than I have.

Hello everyone, my name is Leslie and I live and work in the Naperville area. This is my first year actually making it passed the registration part for this. My sister has been asking me to do this for serveral years and I always come up with a fairly lame excuse as to why I could not do it. My sister has participated for many years eventhough she is the mother of 3 and works a really strange schedule. I am the mother of 1 and work a 9 to 5 M-F so all my excuses are lame compared to my sister! All lame excuses are now gone, and I am left with attempting this. As you can see I have registered late, and will now be spending the rest of the month playing catch up to everyone else. (Wish me lots of luck on this!). I am not sure I have fully decided what my novel will be about. I have many ideas in my head that could possibly come together into one novel...or could be the start of the next Twilight or Harry Potter type of series,(not that I think I could possibly write on either of these levels- please excuse my newbie attitude Stephanie and JK...I just think I have too many ideas to push into one novel and still stay on track). I look forward to getting to know all the others in the Naperville area during this November to remember of writing.
Good luck to everyone...happy typing.

Posting so I'm added to that lovely region wordcount graph, since I love that thing! :D

So hello there; I'm Gabi! This is my sixth NaNoWriMo; I've technically only had one win (two years ago), though the year before that I got to 25k in five days before abandoning and I did finish the project later. I'm a senior in high school and currently live in Winfield (though on the Wheaton side of it).

This year I'm technically writing fanfiction, but it's with two characters who have each had one line, and those lines were each one word. It's YA/teen lit, though, and it's one of the few plots I've had I really do like a lot. I'll be balancing all of my college apps and NaNo this November (since I procrastinated), but hopefully that won't stop me! :D

Hey everyone! I am actually Mopie2525's sister that she mentioned! LOL I am adding myself late to this thread, because this year is the first time I'm working full-time hours, Monday through Friday. I certainly don't have as much free time as I used to. But I have a great idea for a story, and I'm hoping to actually finish this year.

I'm excited to not only have my sister here, but also my daughter, and another daughter who is going to attempt the Young Writer's program. Thos who write together, have more fuin together! Right?

Hope to see people at a few of the weekend write-ins!~

Hello! I'm Erik, resident of Westmont. This is my second NaNoWriMo (joined late in 2010, ignored word goals. Didn't exactly finish) though after college I did pound out a 200k word fantasy novel and a screenplay before entering the working world. That's keeping me going.

I look forward to finishing this story in its own time, and I hope to hit at least 50k words by midnight, November 30th. 20% there!

I'm Ethan, and this is my first NanoWrimo. I heard about it from a friend in one of my classes, and I'm so happy that I joined in. It's definitely something that I have quickly learned to dedicate my time to, and it has caused me to take my computer to school so that I can work on my novel is Study Hall, before school, at lunch, and after school. I've written several short stories before, but never a full novel like I am in this competition. I usually write in fiction, be it philosophical, adventure, or science-fiction.

This year's novel that I am writing is outside of my comfortable boundaries, and explores various behaviors and side-effects of being thrown into a new setting and being the only thing (besides animals) that exists. It's an adventure novel that isn't necessarily focused on the actual adventure itself, but the underlying meanings behind fairly regular tasks. Once a chance to believe that my main character is not alone, he becomes obsessed by the mystery of this almost ghostly character who never quite reveals himself.

Anyway, I hope to attend at least a few write-ins throughout the month. They really do help boost my word count, as I'm a bit behind at this point.

Hey. I'm a long time writer who needs this PUSH to get this dratted novel done. Couldn't work over the weekend but managed to pound out 4,865 words today! Woo HOO!

Ello! I'm SeikaTakaKanata or Lindsay which ever you prefer to call me. ^^ This will be my first time participating in NaNoWriMo and I'm excited. I know I'm a little late, so sorry about that.

I generally like to write action fiction with the occasional fantasy twist thrown in there. This year I'm writing a novel that takes place in the future and was inspired by my history class, surprisingly. I'm actually not sure where I got the idea from but I'm loving it so far! This one may actually be my first novel ever completed.

Hello to everyone. I went through the archives attempting to find my post from last year, but probably missed it, so I'll re-do it for this year. I've been participating in NaNoWriMo since 2006, took a break from it in 2009 due to college being a little insane, and last year, 2010, was my first time that I won in four years of participating. This year attempting to finish the novel that I started last year, and hoping that I can finish the silly thing.

Happy writing to everyone!

~VK