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If anyone has tried to check our NaNoWriMo Progress page, they may have noticed that the reports didn’t have any information in them. That’s because NaNoWriMo has been having a tough time with site problems.

As of this morning, they were able to get the word count API working again. So if you’d like to see where Gem and I are, just click the link in the side bar.

So, you may be wondering what we’re writing.? I can’t speak for Gemini - other than its a fractured fairy tale *grins*

I can let you see at least a bit of what I’m writing. The title of my work in progress is “The End of Existence as We Know It” and I’m posting the first six chapters on the ShadowsEdge blog. I’m attempting a humorous story, so don’t let the title fool you.? ? Go take a look at the first chapter and let me know what you think!

Well, it’s November again.

That means it’s time for the insanity that is NaNoWriMo.

Since Gem and I have mentioned before that we’re a little on the insane side, we’ve both signed up to participate again this year.

We’ll be posting here periodically, but if you want to check our progress, you can take a look at the NaNoWriMo Progress page.

Anyone else doing NaNo this year?

NaNoWriMo 2006 officially kicks off at 12:01am tonight - Thirty days of utter writing insanity!? For those of you interested in seeing how Gemini and I are doing during the month, we’ve created a separate page that will continously track our progress.? It’s at NaNoWriMo Progress or you can click the link under Pages in the sidebar.

We may occasionally post progress reports here as well.? Feel free to comment or send emails to encourage, goad, push us to get our word count up!

Just in case anyone out there is wondering how our NaNoWriMo preparation is going…..:)

As of November 1st, we will have our word count posted somewhere on the blog - probably on a new page, since there isn’t any room left in the sidebar!

ShadowsEdge

I realized today that NaNoWriMo is fast approaching. I’m not sure how ready I am.

Now there are some people who are doing no prep work at all - I’m not one of them. Not only do I have hopes of actually finishing the story I have planned, but I would also like the draft to be decent enough to edit and potentially submit for publication somewhere. *laughs* We’ll see what happens.

So where am I?

Well, my main characters have first names but not surnames. They have physical descriptions and some background information. Some of the secondary characters have names, some don’t. I made notecards of the scenes I knew I wanted to have in the story and put them into an outline. *chuckles* Thanks to the outline, I can now see the gaping plot holes that need to be filled. That’s somewhat depressing, true, but at least I won’t stumble on them by surprise and get stuck in November!

Gemini

Outline smoutline. *laughs* I am so not fully prepared for this. I have some great scenes, but connecting them is going to be the hard part. Have to thank Edge for the use of one of her characters, who has smoothly inserted himself and some of his ideals into my story.

My characters are rather nicely described. I could probably do character challenges with them, and just might before the month is over. Having some extra information on them might be handy and that seems like an excellent idea to get it. There’s four main, one who thinks he’s a main character and a sixth who is a real two-faced, lying, hypocritcal bastage. Can’t wait to get them all into the story itself.

Hmm… maybe I should rethink that outline idea.

It took Edge less than a week to convince me that I had to share her insanity. I had intended on just doing a personal challenge, especially since I’m having some surgery done on Oct 30th and company for most of November, but no….

She talked me into Nano. *sigh* Not that it took much talking, she just showed me the Dares threads (which I intend on implementing here as soon as possible.) which helped inspire rambling thoughts my Muse has been planting, which has enough plot bunnies to maybe reach 50,000 words. Thank the gods I can talk to people, spend time with people, and write at the same time.

So, Edge, Muse, I toast thee….. and if I make it through this sane… well… at least no more insane than I already am… then I owe you both one for getting me writing again.

Oh and if anyone wants to know…. The dare I’m working on is one that has the writer using the line of a song in order as their chapter headings. I’m using Blue October’s What if We Could, written by Justin Furstenfeld. Hmm… I’ll have to thank him too if I ever meet him again.

*wanders off to outline*

Gemini

For those of you who didn’t realize from previous posts that I’m a little on the crazy side (Or for those of you who were holding out hope that I was actually sane), here’s your proof otherwise. I have officially registered for National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) 2006.

What this means is: I will attempting to write a 50,000 word (or more) novel during the month of November. Yeah, my sanity’s questionable! *laughs*

I’m not the only crazy one - last year there were over 50,000 people who made the attempt and over 9,000 who actually met the goal!

What does this mean for YourCre8tivity?

Not much really - We’re putting together a backlog of Quick Steps so that you’ll still get your daily dose of creativity during the week. You will be seeing periodic updates on my progress toward 50,000 words, though I’ll try to keep them to a minimum, unless asked to do otherwise.

What does this mean for you?

Anyone who is reading this has permission to nag, cajole, cheer me on and ask about my progress, either through comments or by emailing me!

Of course…. you could always join me!

–Edge