In just under seven hours...

originally posted by Dot at The Writing Vein on 10/31/09 at 5:05 pm

I will have been working on my new, 2009 NaNoWriMo novel for 6 minutes. I will have six minutes of ...

of...

...something. I will be there at the midnight write-in, with my friend, Jenny, and the 20 or 40 or 60 or more people gathered in east Portland to kick off this thing called NaNoWriMo.

My next post will be after midnight, after the fun begins, after I know where my novel starts. I have a summary - that you can read on my NaNoWriMo author's page (username is dot.). The working title of my new novel is "Cascade Lakes Footnotes." Other than the summary (which I already posted here on my website), I don't know what's going to happen or who will be there or who the guilty parties are. I've been promised a "struggle for survival" - so there does seem to be a bit of a mystery and at least the threat of death, if not one or more actual deaths. We'll see!

I've had to forego the nap I thought would be a good idea since I am excited and there's no way I'd sleep. I thought the 11 miles walk with half-marathon partners this morning would help with the napping - but, no. Now my partner and I are headed off to a dance for a couple hours. Then back home to change into the 2009 NaNoShirt I've had hanging on the wall since it arrived a couple weeks ago. NaNoNerd that I am, I promised myself I'd not wear it until....tonight! Now the only question is: which one? The official 2009 NaNoShirt or the official Camp NaNoWriMo shirt?

*grin*

It's nearly NaNoTime!

recruiting

Is anyone else recruiting? I am!

I have one returning NaNo-er convinced and she's coming along with me. Jenny and I met last year during NaNo (she's the one I met through our mutual connection of Ariel Gore) - and we've been writing together since. It started slow, our meeting to write - kids, work, schedules, working out/training, home. Later we aimed to meet weekly - which we do for a while, then it drops off when one of us adds something else into our schedule or a job comes up (darn that money making necessity!). But we are doing regular meet-ups and have recently added a third person to our group. Jenny is just finishing up a new draft of last year's nanonovel (go, Jenny!) and I get to read it - yay. So, unless something changes between now and November 1st, Jenny will be along with me.

There is another writer I met through Ariel and NaNo last year, who I think is going to do it, again, too - Christi. She's still a little undecided, I think - but it would be great to have her along for the ride. She's not local - so we won't be meeting in person; although we have set up an online writing group with Jenny and the third person who sometimes joins Jenny and I.

I tried to recruit Steve. A friend and writer and we share our income generating profession, as well. He replied to my question the next morning with "I don't like to use the F-bomb before 10 AM. No. But I'll be here to cheer you on." It was a long shot, since linguistics is his thing and he is a writer who searches for the precise word - each and every one of them - pretty much on the first draft. But I thought I'd try.

Alexander is the third person who sometimes meets with me and Jenny. Actually, Alexander and I also share the money-producing profession. And Alexander and I have known each other many years. We have met to talk about writing and done some writing together in the past - we never really got it to a regular schedule and sometimes go months without seeing each other. But he may also be joining us in the pursuit of a nanonovel. His primary thing is film and radio script, although he also does incredible short story work. I hope he makes the leap and I look forward to seeing what comes of it.

I also tried to bring in Suzanne. But she thinks she can't write. She wants to write but hasn't done any creative writing for a very long time. I know she can. And I think she'd be great at nano-ing. And she's currently between jobs so she's got the time. I don't know if she'll jump in the nanopool or not - but I'll try her again in a week or two.

Who are you recruiting?