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Moscow is burning.

I hit 2000 words. Taking a break now.

Ohhman. I have fifty minutes to figure out my entire plot.

So one of the two regions I belong to is having a kickoff party today and I'm going with a friend. Anyone else attending their regions' kickoff parties, write-ins, etc.?

I haven't been around a lot/at all for most of this year, but ... I'm doing Nanowrimo. Hopefully. Yeah. I'll probably drop in a couple of times here and around ...

I have to get through one at a time. Even if I hate myself every moment of the way. If I take a break from the story, I know I'll ...

Hahah. I prepared for Nanowrimo by going to a Halloween party.

Brag about how high it is, complain about how low it is, promise us it'll get higher — how many words do you have so far? To start us off: ...

Eh, wait, excerpts already? (Okay, okay, I didn't even read them, I'm sorry.) Aren't you supposed to wait until November to start that? You might want to read the dates ...

How do you start? I've always hated beginnings. I need a good beginning to be motivated to keep going. At least, a beginning that makes me interested. Granted, this sometimes ...

*Is looking frantically for all the tips she can find* Word wars are your FRIENDS. Basically, there's a thread in the forums (usually in "Reaching 50,000") in November where people ...

This is what I do: I don't plan. ... until a couple of days before Nanowrimo. I let myself do little things, like think up character names (sometimes; not always), ...

I'm still curious — what exactly would you do with an LJ (or any blog) for your nano? This is getting a wee bit tangential, but since I have forty ...

Okay, so most areas have a regional lounge, especially in Canada and the U.S., where all the people in your area hang out and talk and organize nifty get-togethers. So ...

For fantasy and sci-fi especially, genres don't really give you a clear impression of what the book entails. Mystery, for example, follows a pretty specific formula. So does romance. But ...