CAA: Christian Anime Alliance

Alright, so today's the day; NaNoWriMo begins! Who's doing NaNoWriMo this year? Are you just winging it, or is it planned out?

Personally, instead of the usual planning ahead of time, I'm really just winging it this year. Came up with an idea for something about a week ago, and now I'm slapping together some semblance of plot and hoping it lasts through the month.

Good luck to everyone participating! ^^/

Me! Me! I'm participating again! Third year in a row, so far I've got one fail and one success, let's see where this year tips the scales.

I usually just make stories up on the fly and see how it turns out, but this time around, strangely enough, I've actually got an idea I've been thinking over for a while and I think I've got it planned out... Moderately well. It's an odd feeling, to be sure. I'm not sure I like it yet, but I've left plenty of room for improvisation.

And, true to being the first day of NaNoWriMo, I barely had time to write during the day and made up for it when I should have slept. It's past 2 in the morning but I've gotten more than six thousand words, so I can at least sleep in peace.

I only got 160 words on the first day. :/

The NaNo side says that, at this rate, I'll finish on September 8, 2016.

I'll get there, though. Just discovered that evenings are not the best time for me to write. Should do better today.

Scrivener is an amazing piece of software, by the way. They have a free trial available specifically for NaNoWriMo. I highly recommend it.

My fifth year! Well...fourth year! ...I had to take last year off because I was planning my December wedding! But it says 5 years in my NaNoWriMo profile.

Ryosuke and I started plotting some semblance of a world and storyboarding about 6 months ago that kind of amounted to nothing because, y'know, life and stuff happened. I'm pantsing it and he's helping me fill in some holes as I go along!

So I took all those old notes, imported them to Scrivener, and took off yesterday as midnight rolled into November! I've never used Scrivener before, but my goodness it is SO much better and easier to work with than MS Word for this stuff! I'm definitely taking up the offer to get the full software when the time comes!

Forgive me if I'm not really around (well, I do tend to lurk a lot more than I mean to, these days!), but there's always noveling to be done, and I'm also heading up a NaNo thread on a marriage forum. Have fun and happy writing, CAA-Wrimos!

I'm a bit late, but I really want to do Nano. It's just... My brain is drained after 6+ hours with 11 four-year-olds, so I don't want to think when I get home, and any thinking power I have is taken by my studying Japanese.

When I was in grad school, I did my own 30 day challenge and wrote a novel in that time (It was July 2013). It was a fun experience, and I compare this to the book that took me 17 years to write, and even though it's rough, in some ways it was actually better than the book that took me a longer time to write.

I'm doing it this year! Though I have a feeling I'll be losing pretty badly, I'll try` x'D

As usual I am participating.

Starting a little late but picking up a 20 page start I did in July, now that I'm in college with a bunch of other nano's I'm pretty pumped, we have an all nighter planned Friday

The past couple of days have been a wash due to feeling icky and yesterday being a super LONG day --I came home and crashed.

Will try to catch up on the word count this weekend. Will write as I can in the meantime.

So...I've made a very poor decision. I was trying to update some stories I've started on another site, as well as seriously working on another offline. And I'm supposed/was going to try and update some stuff on here.

Guess who decided to add Nanowrimo on top of everything xDD

I'm dying here...what have I done to myself xP *leaves her goals by the roadside while she tries to balance Nano and Life and chaos*

Hnnn...it's a late start, but I might jump in. School is overwhelming, but I love NaNo so much. Granted, I have absolutely no ideas, so there's that, too. We'll see what happens.

LastLfan wrote:Starting a little late but picking up a 20 page start I did in July, now that I'm in college with a bunch of other nano's I'm pretty pumped, we have an all nighter planned Friday

Luckyyyyyyyy! I'm studying for a test all day every day, so no time for NaNo-ing for me. I'll try and catch up after the test (on Thursday). Wish me luck!

Well, I had youth convention this weekend (and I'm a leader and everything now rather than a student, which is weird) so I got nearly nothing done the past couple days. Managed to get my momentum back a bit today though, and I'm now sitting on 33,978 (986, according to my word processor) words in total, so I'm feeling pretty good about that.

How's everybody else doing?

Just about 10k, feeling alright.

Sitting at about 2,000 words. Just, blah.

And I just started today. Yay. BUT, I'm on fall break, so I can totally do this. So much writing...

Well, that's about it for me. I finished my story yesterday, wrote a few hundred more words today to bring my word count to a nice, even 100K. That's the most I've ever written. The book's crap, but I'm a bit proud of myself for doing it.

There's a week left. Anybody else made it? Looking at playing catch-up over Thanksgiving?

Blaaaaaaaaaaaaah. I will not give up. I refuse to give up. I. Will. Not. Fail.
That said, I'm at 22k and there's 5 days left. *sigh*

Double-posting because everyone else died. Sprinting through the last day with 9k to go! I CAN DO THIS.

13:10
4,816 to go everyone.
Witness me.

Updates:

14:08 -3467 to go

14:30 -2963 to go

15:18 -1,963 to go

15:30 - 1,463 to go, less than a days worth needed.

17:45 - Completed.

Finished with 50,071 words at 11:57 EST. Go me. So much blah. I need at least a week break from this story before I can look at it again.

I won with exactly 50k on the 29th. I only wrote forty words yesterday lol.

I didn't really understand what was going on, but reading this thread leaves me impressed. Good job everyone.