Attention: Writers

[Vendettaressa]

Is anyone doing Camp NaNoWriMo this year? It's kind of an annual thing in April where you set your own word count goal and try to actively write during that month. 

[ChirpyBird]

On 3/6/2017 at 5:32 PM, SkyGirl said:

DUDE!!! That trailer is amazing and your premise sounds intriguing! Huge congratulations for all your hard work! You rock!!

 

AHHHH! The short story prequel just published today! AHHHHHHHH SO EXCITED! https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Ddigital-text&field-keywords=grim+inception

[SkyGirl]

2 minutes ago, ChirpyBird said:

 

AHHHH! The short story prequel just published today! AHHHHHHHH SO EXCITED! https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Ddigital-text&field-keywords=grim+inception

 

And you already have a review!! Way to go! How thrilling!!!

[ChirpyBird]

On 3/9/2017 at 3:50 PM, SkyGirl said:

 

And you already have a review!! Way to go! How thrilling!!!

 

Yeah! So, so exciting!

[Plannerman]

On 3/9/2017 at 1:47 PM, ChirpyBird said:

 

AHHHH! The short story prequel just published today! AHHHHHHHH SO EXCITED! https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Ddigital-text&field-keywords=grim+inception

 

Purchased! I'm going to give it a read.

[cracked_belle]

On 3/9/2017 at 9:01 AM, Vendettaressa said:

Is anyone doing Camp NaNoWriMo this year? It's kind of an annual thing in April where you set your own word count goal and try to actively write during that month. 

 

I've donated to camp NaNo, but I've never done it.  I usually get too caught up in life.   I hope to do the original NaNo this year!

[ChirpyBird]

On 5/1/2017 at 2:32 PM, Plannerman said:

 

Purchased! I'm going to give it a read.

 

Thank you SO MUCH! Cant' wait to hear what you think  If you have the time, an Amazon review would be much, much appreciated! 

[SeekingCassandra]

I am about 3/4th through writing a very large historical Golden Age of Piracy era novel. It's been my NaNoWriMo project for the last NaNo and Camp NaNo, and I am hoping next months' camp will help push me to the finish line on it so I can start editing in earnest and eventually publish. 

I also have a couple fantasy, and modern pieces on the back burning, along with a decade old fanfiction I am chipping away at a chapter at a time. Too many ideas in the brain at the same time, I fear.  . . 

[elinox]

I've written 2 novels and several dozen fanfics and short stories (both completed and uncompleted). The second novel, I completed for NaNoWriMo 2015 with the help of my challenge here at the same time. I published my 'House of Red' through Amazon Kindle's self-publishing in May!

 

[Isaac Clark]

I'm a professional writer / editor, so I do write quite a bit. I started off writing my own short stories and stuff when I as still in Highschool, but now that I do it as work, I just can't seem to get the willpower to write in my free time. It kinda just reminds me of work

[Gemma]

I "win" NaNoWriMo almost every year but have never finished a cohesive story. I tend to do things like start off with an idea for a murder mystery, then around the first plot point suddenly realize that I'd much rather be writing solarpunk sci-fi, and then go back to the character development drawing board and realize that my MC is better suited to YA fantasy, all while reading Zafon or Garcia Marquez and remembering how much I adore magical realism ... and then come to Dec 1 with a completely reasonable five-fifths of a novel that is not at all a whole  

So basically my hobby is creating literary hot-mess train wrecks for fun without profit. 

 

For those who intend to NaNo '17, my NaNoName is ChanDeere, feel free to buddy me.

[Novaurora]

Hey fellow writers!  I was scavenging around for a thread like this.  I don't usually do Nano (I'm a teacher and 50 in one month plus grading is just not ever going to happen if I want to have a life) but I'm 90k into a fantasy novel and would love to chat with/encourage other writers (fantasy or not!)  Is the thread pretty active?  Is this the only one?  

[VellaMal]

Hey - another newbie and writer chiming in
I write fantasy, but I do the freelance thing as well, so I've basically written everything from sci-fi to autobiography to YA.

 

On 8/3/2017 at 9:27 PM, Gemma said:

So basically my hobby is creating literary hot-mess train wrecks for fun without profit. 

 

I relate very hard to this sentence. If you get added on NaNo by a VellaMal, that's me  

[Akira Kurusu]

Newbie writer here

[SkyGirl]

11 hours ago, VellaMal said:

Hey - another newbie and writer chiming in
I write fantasy, but I do the freelance thing as well, so I've basically written everything from sci-fi to autobiography to YA.

 

 

I relate very hard to this sentence. If you get added on NaNo by a VellaMal, that's me  

 

4 hours ago, Akira Kurusu said:

Newbie writer here

 

Welcome to the Rebellion, both of you!! Writers are very important to the success of our movement and I'm so glad you have arrived!  

 

@Akira Kurusu, are you a new writer? Or a writer who is new to the rebellion?

[Akira Kurusu]

Just now, SkyGirl said:

 

 

Welcome to the Rebellion, both of you!! Writers are very important to the success of our movement and I'm so glad you have arrived!  

 

@Akira Kurusu, are you a new writer? Or a writer who is new to the rebellion?

I've written for blogs and freelance sketches. I also worked on the narrative of a full-fledged game. But professionally all of this only accounts to one year. I have always been writing as a hobby. But, that's something sporadic and I wish to make it regular.

[Quorra]

So, much of the writing I have done involved video game content, specifically teaching languages through a console platform, but writing copy and editing novels have been fun. Currently working on a non-fiction/New Age/Self help book.

[GalaxyOrchid]

OMG! So excited to have found this. I'm a newbie to the forum, but I'm also a writer. One published (non-fiction) and working on a fantasy fiction. But working on, I should say, has been a 2 year process of writing, crying, writing, crying, delete. Wash, rinse, repeat. But I am determined to finish it. Maybe I should set a date to make it more of "You will finish your first draft on [DATE]" and not "You will finish your first draft... maybe.. some day... eventually.... WINE!"

[elinox]

2 minutes ago, GalaxyOrchid said:

OMG! So excited to have found this. I'm a newbie to the forum, but I'm also a writer. One published (non-fiction) and working on a fantasy fiction. But working on, I should say, has been a 2 year process of writing, crying, writing, crying, delete. Wash, rinse, repeat. But I am determined to finish it. Maybe I should set a date to make it more of "You will finish your first draft on [DATE]" and not "You will finish your first draft... maybe.. some day... eventually.... WINE!"

 

Believe me, there's nothing wrong with a story taking 2 years to complete. Or 3 years...or...13 years in my case! Just keep working on it and you'll get there. Also, maybe try writing it for a challenge here? That's actually what helped me finally finish my first novel that took me 13 years to write!  

[GalaxyOrchid]

4 minutes ago, elinox said:

 

Believe me, there's nothing wrong with a story taking 2 years to complete. Or 3 years...or...13 years in my case! Just keep working on it and you'll get there. Also, maybe try writing it for a challenge here? That's actually what helped me finally finish my first novel that took me 13 years to write!  

 

I might just do that, Thanks! Something to keep me accountable for when that nasty creature gets on my shoulder and whispers "Delete it all, it's crap" in my ear.

[Aline]

Oh, hello fellow writers!

 

I've published several science-fiction and fantasy short stories, and co-authored a couple of non-fiction IT books. I haven't taken new "serious" projects since my second child was born a year ago, though. I only write fanfiction lately. Low stakes, no pulling all-nighters 'cause the deadline is near, better for my nerves. I tried Nanowrimo once years ago, it didn't go very well. I'm a slow writer

[Echoceanic]

Hi!

I've been writing for 8 years, and I have stories in anthologies coming out soon, and am currently editing my first book. I also work on an e-magazine called Far Horizons, where I've submitted for a long time.

[Plazmotic]

23 hours ago, GalaxyOrchid said:

for when that nasty creature gets on my shoulder and whispers "Delete it all, it's crap" in my ear.

I did that twice before… never again! It will be done and it will be crap, then it’ll be time for editing.