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| Okay guys, a few of us are in WRIMOBUDDIES2 on AIM, looking for word wars. Anyone interested in joining? If you need an invite, IM LendHerGrace or DragonSashes and we'll give you a hand. | |
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Poll #1793799
Common Names
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 63
Which of these feels more annoyingly common to you?
I'm looking for girls names that are really really common. I have a character who prides herself on being different and I really want to give her an everyday girls name. Something that she'd have had to add the initial to her last name to while in class. Like Ashley A, Ashley J, etc. If you have a suggestion outside of Ashley or Amanda, let me know in comments! | |
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| It's the start of the second week, how are you all hanging in there? Word counts? Any surprises along the way? & Discuss: What do you write to? I know that a few people write in silence, but for those who don't what musical artists are fueling your nano? I'm usually big on playlist but this year I've pretty much kept my iTunes on shuffle with a few stops on some of my favorite artists. Recommend a band, leave a playlist, or beg for some musical inspiration below~! | |
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| WARRING IN WRIMOBUDDIES2 on AIM. IM LENDHERGRACE or SNIVELLUSFTW for an invite.For an alternative to warring in chat, follow us on TWITTER! Drop us a line if you need a war. https://twitter.com/#!/wrimobuddies | |
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| WUPS>>> RL intervened!!! 3 days 13600 / 50000 words. 27% done! | |
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| WRIMOBUDDIES2 on AIM. IM LENDHERGRACE or SNIVELLUSFTW for an invite.For an alternative to warring in chat, follow us on TWITTER! Drop us a line if you need a war. https://twitter.com/#!/wrimobuddies | |
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NANOWRIMO DAY FOUR
WORD COUNTSWhat was your word count for the day? What was your word count overall? (I'll post the Day 3 praise in another entry. Stay tuned!) 
DISCUSSION: What troubles are you facing in Week 1 and how are you handling them? Share tips! | |
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NANOWRIMO DAY TWO
WORD COUNTSWhat is your word count for the day? What is your word count overall? We are all winners so far but I thought that it might be fun to send some jealousy and love vibes in the direction of these folks! Day One Highest Word Counts: ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif?v=91.7) facingtheanimal wrote 10,078 words! worn_synapses wrote 6,500 words or so! sketchybrunette wrote 6,088 words! karikos wrote 5,532 words! alphien wrote 5,281 words! sarahyyy wrote 5,213 words! | |
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| Name: Sue Age: 29 NaNoWriMo Username:prettylily8282 Years Participating in NaNo: This is my 4th day How Many Have You Won: None yet but I took a week vacation to start the month off right I am winning this year! Location: North Carolina Story Idea For This Year: All across the country female real estate agents are being raped and murdered. Agent Jason Stark gets assigned to the case and races to catch the killer before he strikes again while dealing with a jealous fiancee's private investigator who thinks she has the case all wrapped up.
Title: Killer Real Estate
Music: anything by Josh Gracin unlocks my creative flood gates
Favorite Book/Authors: Ever since I was a little girl my favorite book has been Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Favorite Writing Beverage/Snack: Cherry Coke and Tootsie Pops How do you write (word/pen and paper/etc):
I use Google Docs so I can write on my laptop or on my phone Friending Policies/Whats In Your Journal: I don't really use my journal but feel free to add me. Also feel free to add me on Nano site IMing policies: I use AIM SN prettylily8282 I'm not on it often but If I am feel free to IM just let me know who you are and that your from this community | |
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| Name: Lenny Age: 22 Location: Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia Twitter: @lennymaybe Tumblr: http://iamlennymaybe.tumblr.com last.fm: http://www.last.fm/user/lennymaybeGenre/Genres of your nano (Is this your usual genre?): Young adult, yes. Link to intro post: This is my intro post? Or is there one I missed? Link to your Nanowrimo profile: http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/participants/lenny-maybeIf you could have lunch with any author, dead or alive, who would you break bread with? Probably actually Henry Rollins. If you could take a road trip with any character from your favorite book, movie, comic, show etc, who would it be and why? Can I just say John Barrowman because he's perfect? Yes. I've decided I can. If you were stranded on a desert island, what four items would you take with you and why? Laptop, internet connection, fridge, stove. I wouldn't be hungry or alone. Favorite thing to do to unwind from Nano during November? Waste time on the internet and/or game (I'm currently playing through Assassin's Creed II on Xbox) Friending Policies/Whats In Your Journal: My journal has a bunch of stuff in it, I post text and photos. Most of it's public, just come on over and see how you like it. | |
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| Name: Heather Age: 29 NaNoWriMo Username: Goddess_Evie Years Participating in NaNo: This makes year two for me! How Many Have You Won: Just once so far. Hoping to make this year two for two. Location: Arizona, USA Story Idea For This Year: Fanfiction WIP
Title: The Masked Prince
Music: Pandora is great, especially a movie scores channel with rainymoods.com playing in the background.
Favorite Book/Authors: Way too many to list. Go check out what it says on my author page!
Favorite Writing Beverage/Snack: Hot cocoa and something sweet to go with it. How do you write (word/pen and paper/etc): Word 2010 on my laptop. Thankfully I just got it super cheap through work. This is one of those few times when it actually pays to be a teacher. Friending Policies/Whats In Your Journal: This is mostly just my journal for fan stuff, so I don't comment a lot, mainly just follow all my fan groups. And NaNo. IMing policies: Don't really have any as I haven't IM'd in YEARS. Other: I will be proud if I hit the 50,000 goal this year. Especially since I am going to do bare minimum NaNo daily word count and then try to channel the rest of that energy into editing my finished nano novel from last year. | |
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NaNoWriMo Day One
Word Count
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First SentenceHow many words did you write today? Did you hit your 1,667 minimum yet? What is your first sentence? | |
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| Age: 26
NaNoWriMo Username: Kahroline on NaNo
Years Participation: 2009,2010, 2011
How Many Have You Won: 1
Location: Canada
Story Idea For This Year: A continuation of what I did last year. Trying to tie up loose ends. Massive over hauls. So lets just call it starting over.
Title: No title yet.
Favorite Books/Authors: Mercedes Thompson Series, Women of the Other World, Fantasy, Urban Fantasy, the list goes on.
Writing Snacks: A great deal of chocolate is consumed.
How Do You Write: I use a HP Mini LapTop for writing and planning, notebooks when I can and my PC. Writing programs for both computers used are Notepad for writing out drafts and then pasting it into Microsoft word to do word counts and used later on for editing.
What's In Your Journal: A lot of fandom stuff, fan fiction and squee. Some personal stuff is F-Locked but I'm pretty lenient on befriending people here on LJ and on the NaNo site. Lately, however, my LJ has been pretty vacant but I'm looking to remedy that. | |
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| Name: Tabby Age: 19 AIM/iChat Screen Name: AIM is appletoof NaNoWriMo Username: Apple Toof (sensing a theme, here) Years Participating in NaNo: Since 2007, so this is... number five? How Many Have You Won: ...three? Three! Location: Minnesota! Story Idea For This Year: Oh, some messed up psychological horror/thriller thing, single guy in a house that's totes normal but secretly has all sorts of weird stuff going on (in other words, a fairly cliche idea \o/) but there's always time to change, I guess. and write slashy romanceTitle: "I'm supposed to title it?!" or (tentatively) "Once Opened" Genre: psychological... thriller, idk, something like that How do you write (word/pen and paper/etc): my laptop, my ipod, notebooks, the margins of math assignments, amidst psychology notes. Wherever I can. Favorite Book/Author: I have so many! This'll prolly make me sound a bit ~pretentious~, but 'The Great Gatsby' has a special place in my heart, if only for the fact that it was one of the first books I HAD to read for class that I actually enjoyed. Favorite Writing Beverage/Snack: TEAAA and coffeeeeee (which I started drinking about the time I started NaNo. It's no wonder I'm short. :P) Friending Policies/Whats In Your Journal: Only the personal stuff is locked. I keep stuff about writing and fandom pretty not-friendslocked, but I'm down with adding people as long as we've got similar interests and can, y'know, do the 'getting along' thing. Other: NANO! I've put this off because I never know what to say in intro posts~ | |
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| Name: Tasha
Age: 21
AIM/iChat Screen Name: sergeantskittls
NaNoWriMo Username: sark
Years Participating in NaNo: This will be my 6th year
How Many Have You Won: I have won 4 out of 5
Location: Portland
Story Idea For This Year: It's a mystery/thriller about a serial killer who's a cop, and is trying to frame another cop on the police force. I really like to write mysteries, but this is my first year where I'm writing a modern story rather than historical fiction.
Title: Blind Spot
Genre: Mystery/thriller
How do you write (word/pen and paper/etc): Completely by computer
Favorite Book/Author: Dashiell Hammett, Kevin O'Brien, Brian Jacques, Connie Willis
Favorite Writing Beverage/Snack: Coffee, tea, more coffee, more tea.
Friending Policies/Whats In Your Journal: I really don't update my journal that much. If I do, it's usually about college and how it's eating my brain. This month, it might be about NaNo and how it's eating my brain as I try to write my thesis at the same time. I will friend just about anybody if they seem reasonably nice and awesome! I comment fairly frequently, but I don't expect comments in return because I never really update. | |
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| Anyone else with me? Completely changed topics, now that I have, oh, 2.5 hours left until I start. I think I'm a "pantser" in disguise. | |
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| Name: Quinn Age: 28 AIM/iChat Screen Name: TypewrittenGirl NaNoWriMo Username: selfcallednowhere Years Participating in NaNo: This is my 5th year. How Many Have You Won: 3 Location: Seattle! Story Idea For This Year: My story is set in Italy during World War II and focuses on the work of the Resistance. My MC is a staffetta (courier) named Giovanetta De Luca. Title: Flowers on Mussolini's GraveGenre: Historical fiction How do you write (word/pen and paper/etc): I do notes by hand and the actual writing on my laptop, Sven. Favorite Book/Author: Sylvia Plath, Jack Kerouac Favorite Writing Beverage/Snack: COFFEE, lots of it. Friending Policies/Whats In Your Journal: Lots and lots of posts about John Linnell (one of the members of my favourite band, They Might Be Giants), photos, reports on my oh-so-fascinating daily life. My writing journal is frustratednsad. I am willing to friend back people as long as we have some things in common and if they will actually interact with me occasionally. Other: Hello! | |
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| Less than an hour for kickoff on the East coast! Come into WRIMOBUDDIES2 on AIM or IM SNIVELLUSFTW for an invite! If you're big on TWITTER, follow us. We plan on hosting sprints/word wars there as well this year. Just to give you guys an alternative to aim. http://twitter.com/wrimobuddies | |
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|  Here's our yearly friending meme, just in time for Nanowrimo to kick off. Happy Halloween fellow wrimos! The Basics
Name
Age
Location
Aim/MSN/Etc
Alternative Networking Sites
Twitter
Tumblr
last.fm
Etc
Nanowrimo
Genre/Genres of your nano (Is this your usual genre?)
Link to intro post
Link to your Nanowrimo profile
Just For Fun
These are optional, obviously. You can pick and choose which you'd like to answer if not all of them.
If you could have lunch with any author, dead or alive, who would you break bread with?
If you could take a road trip with any character from your favorite book, movie, comic, show etc, who would it be and why?
If you were stranded on a desert island, what four items would you take with you and why?
Favorite thing to do to unwind from Nano during November?
Contact
Friending Policies/Whats In Your Journal
IMing policies
Other | |
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