Isn't it weird how you can be friends with someone and they don't have to be friends with you, and vice versa? Quite different from Facebook. Confusing...

Deb

I've added you all as buddies now except Helen - Damaged still isn't coming up in the author search.

Like Sharon and Dee, I've had an idea knocking around in my head for ages, but can't figure out how to write it. So I think I'm going to try and tackle that. I haven't written a word yet, so it will be a proper NaNo novel. Last year I used it to work on my WIP.

Mine's gonna be proper NaNo... no prose written beforehand, minimal planning. Otherwise it's just a surge, isn't it?

Deb

Thanks Deb

Hi, I've added some people from here, just wanted to thank anyone who added me. I've got a few ideas for my novel, which has been kicking around in my head for a while. I'm glad I found out about nanowrimo, otherwise I would probably have never actually gotten round to writing it! Good luck to everyone!

Getting excited about all this!

I'm reading No Plot No Problem, the book by Chris Baty, and following his advice on preparation. I'm gathering a special pen and notebook – although I’ll almost certainly do everything on the PC. I'm going out tomorrow to buy a new coffee machine (the old one packed up ages ago), and I'm knitting a pair of fingerless mitts to keep my hands warm while I type. He’s even suggested having something special to wear while writing, so I'm looking at a length of fabric and wondering whether to make a long skirt out of it.

I hope all this preparation won't be more exciting than the writing!

Dee

I'm going out tomorrow to buy a new coffee machine

hubby keeps badgering me to get an expresso/cappuccino machine. Maybe this is the excuse he needs.

I'm thinking about it. Might be the push I need to get rid of those demons over Novel II...

Do it, Kate!

Deb

Getting excited about all this!

Me too. For the past three or four days the story has really been welling up - snippets of dialogue, snatches of plot, I have the beginning, the middle and end - well, most of the middle. I've managed to fully visualise one character right down to mannerisms and it's all just .... yeeeeeeeeeee.

I've been tempted to get writing now but decided that I will leave it to 1 November and then I'm just going to write it - no demons allowed - no inner critic invited - just write the story.

Can't wait.

(Hope I feel like this in a few weeks' time)

Sharon
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Sounds like a plan, Sharon!

I have a character, and a sort of setting. The title just popped into my head so that must have come from somewhere... just hope it *rises* before 1/11

Dee

Oh as bloody usual I've got about six ideas all pushing and shoving for attention. God, why can't I just settle on one????
I was all set for knocking out an idea about child abductions that my agent said was 'a bit dark', when yesterday I thought about a schoolgirl who doesn't know she sees ghosts - a bit like Sixth Sense but set in a Yorkshire mining village.
Pants.
HB x

It is a plan, Dee, but hope I can stay on track for once

Helen, I get the "fighting of ideas" problem all the time. It especially tends to happen when I'm getting fed up with a wip, my mind will turn to another idea and I'll be tempted to go and work on that one instead. Which results in my usual writing pattern of getting absolutely nothing done! I love both your ideas - which one is shouting loudest right now?

Sharon
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Oh as bloody usual I've got about six ideas all pushing and shoving for attention.

When that happens to me I just stuff them all in the same novel-pot, and stew them all up together.

Emma

Do you know, Emma, that's bloody good advice.
I remember when I was writing book one ( christ that seems long, long ago) I had an idea for book two which was going to be entirely stand alone about two asylum seekers who werew not quite what they said they were. Then I got a series deal, but I somehow used a lot of the standalone ideas in book two anyway - one asylum seeker who is not quite what she says she is.

I also remember reading some advice on WW - maybe from Jem, it sounds just like the sort of stuff Jem would say - that when you get a good idea just stick it in. Don't hold it back for later because more ideas will come. It's so true.

See, am now wondering if one of the ghosts my MC 'sees' could be an abducted child who no-one ever knew what had happened to. Perhaps the child wants its Mother to know it had died so she could finally get some rest and stop searching a la McCann family.
HB x

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Actually, that's fecking brilliant.
Emma Darwin, I officailly love you.