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octavialuna.livejournal.com

Hello. i originally found this community through

juno_icons around the end of October. Since then, i've been struggling to figure out where my muse packed up and ran off to.

A few nights ago, i finally decided on a storyline of sorts, and today i was finally able to start writing. Not easy with three children. :-) Anyway, i'm writing a first-person fictionalized account of my time spent in the mental health unit. i got 744 words written today, and i feel like i can still catch up. :-)

valderys.livejournal.com

I hope I'm still allowed an introductory post, given I hadn't decided until today whether I was going to be doing Picowrimo, or not. But since I need to angst and bite my nails, or feel proud of my pitiful achievements somewhere... :)

Last month, despite a certain amount of writer's block, and a certain amount of dissatisfaction with what I have written lately, I decided I would sign up to not one, not two, but - yes, count them - three ficathons. *sigh* I get all carried away with enthusiasm until I start trying to produce the goods, whereupon it trickles from me in some disgustingly goopy metaphor. Still.

I have to produce at least a 1000 words for

undermistletoe by 5th December, for

slashababy by 10th December and for

yuletide by 19th December. I'm hoping to write at least two of these fics by the end of the month. In my defence I've started on the

slashababy one, and have written 1934 words in the last week. I'm aiming for about 500 words a day (because, frankly, I've never just written 1000 words for a ficathon) so as you can see, I'm already a bit behind...

katlinel.livejournal.com

Another late-comer here.

I've done very little writing - a Blake's 7 fanfic many years ago - and I wasn't expecting to be doing any more any time soon. Then the

trennels community had a drabble plus ficathon recently, and while thinking about what I might request, should I request anything, I surprised myself, and actually managed to write a drabble and a half. For those who don't know,

trennels is for fans of Antonia Forest's books. Forest wrote a series of adventure, school and historical novels, mostly featuring children from the same family.

A few weeks ago, I had one of those "What if?" moments, which took four of the characters from the Forest books (Anne, Ginty, Nicola and Lawrie, on their way back to boarding school by train after the events of Peter's Room, for those who know the Forest books), and put them in Narnia for the events of Prince Caspian, instead of the Pevensies.

altariel1 was kind enough to think that this was rather a good idea, so my aim is to write some of the scenes springing from this.

There's no way I'd manage 50,000 words in a month, and I'm aiming for the lower picowrimo target of 500 words, not 5,000, given my average output over the last few years.

I always knew I'd be late starting this, because of planned RL events of the past week, but unplanned ones have taken their toll too. Still, I am determined to do something with this idea this month.

Current Mood: determined
Current Location: indoors and staying that way

puddingcat.livejournal.com

I'm here because

lark_ascending mentioned it, and because 5000 words seems far more achievable for a new writer with Serious Mental Blocks than does 50,000.

I only started writing this year, and have done all of half a dozen drabbles for the Weiss Kreuz fanfic community

wk_100. My plan for November was to try & break through my "I can't write smut" and "I can't write conversations" blocks by - erm songfics. Yes, I know. But it's inspiration, of a kind, and nobody said they have to be good.

Yesterday worked reasonably well - a 250 word ficlet inspired by Thea Gilmore's "Razor Valentine":

Schuldig lounged easily against the end of a pew as Nagi sat calmly next to him, both watching Farfarello as he contemplated his work. The woman had streaked bloody handprints across the floor in her attempts to escape; the smears, from a certain angle, looked like calligraphy.

Today's, though. Today's is eating my brain. I'm up to 459 words on this one (709 total) and it Won't Go Away. Hurrah for monologuing villains is all I can say.

Crawford’s the man for getting things done when we’re in a hurry – one bullet to the back of the head (or neck, if he wants to take time to wave goodbye), and you can’t beat Nagi if you want industrial-scale destruction.

forodwaith.livejournal.com

Hello everyone. My name is Danielle, and if it weren't for

altariel1, I'd never have written a word of fiction after the age of sixteen, so you can ~~blame~~ credit her for anything I inflict on you.

In an odd bit of serendipity, just before deciding to join in PicoWriMo, I discovered there are two short story markets currently looking for submissions of nautical or pirate-themed fantasy. Clearly, this was a sign that I should write a short story about pirates.

So my PicoWriMo will be devoted to churning out 5000 words (ideally the entire first draft) of a fantasy story about pirates in the ancient Mediterranean. I think they are going to have a run-in with a Thracian witch, but that's still up in the air at the moment.

vilakins.livejournal.com

Hi, I'm Nico, and though I've just finished two ficathon stories of over 7000 words each in the last month, I couldn't resist this. It's such a great idea (NaNoWriMo is madness) and a brilliant name.

After the angst of my recent stories, I wanted to go for lightness and fun so I asked my friends for ideas. This explains why I'll be writing a Blake's 7 / Narnia crossover in which Vila and Avon (and possibly more of them) end up on the other side of an old wardrobe that Dorian picked up somewhere.

salsify.livejournal.com

Hi, I'm

salsify. I write a little bit of Tolkien fanfiction, but I've been having trouble getting anything on paper lately.

My story is going to be about Imrahil's ancestors, Mithrellas and Imrazor. I've been mulling the idea over for a long time now, but never quite got around to writing it since I couldn't get them to do anything except sit and mope about the state of their marriage. If I still can't convince them to break up, I have two longer stories that are still waiting for about 5000 more words.

I hope that Picowrimo will be incentive enough to get me to sit down and write again. But if anybody catches me wandering off track, please remind me to get back to work!

espresso-addict.livejournal.com

Hello, everyone. I'm a fanfiction writer in several fandoms, and have also been intermittently writing a historical novel for some years now. Personal events just over a year ago left my muse in a coma, and I'm planning to use Picowrimo to rejuvenate her.

I haven't yet decided precisely what I'm going to write, but it will probably be a combination of a Georgette Heyer AU which has languished unfinished for several years now, my

yuletide rare fandom challenge story (after allocations on the 9th) and my novel. I'm going to aim for 5000 words spread across all projects, but given how little fiction I've written so far this year, I'll be content if I complete 500.

tawek.livejournal.com

Hi, I'm another of these CWIL people. And I'm in the middle of a novel set in a fictional medieval world - about 38,000 words in.

I could really use a deadline to get me writing, but last thing I want is to be distracted by a new project ... and NaNoWriMo say you can't add to an existing project.

So behold, another refugee from NaNoWriMo!

My Pico won't be quite so Pico. I'm going for 20,000 words (645 words a day).

On an existing project, I fear I'm gonna find that tough. You've got permission to cajole me, bully me, lock me in solitary confinement with a word processor, if I start to let the deadline slip ... ;)

Here's to a productive November!

Cheers
George

PS Thanks to juno_magic for the great Pico icon :)

martal0712.livejournal.com

I am

martal0712. I write Tolkien fanfic, though lately most of my time has gone to admining a fandom writing contest, the Middle-earth Fanfiction Awards.

In real-life am a graduate student working for my M.A. in philosophy. I intend to use picowrimo to write a paper I need to do for one of my classes. The paper has to be 25 pages which could easily be 5,000 words. In a nutshell I am presenting the ontological proofs for God in St. Anselm and Rene Descartes, and showing how Descartes doesn't fall to two major criticisms made against Anselm. I have a whole outline but have not actually started writing.

So my thing is a non-fictional project. I look forward to the accountability to get it finished.

Depending on how that goes, I have a long-standing story idea in which Barahir (Faramir's grandson) learns about his grandmother during Eomer's funeral in Edoras. The cold weather has me thinking about that, and if I have the time to do a fanfic story in addition to the essay I'll do that.

paranoidangel

I saw the suggestion for this in

altariel1's journal and thought 5000 words, how hard can it be? Except that I have a ficathon deadline at the start of December and there's another one looking like it might be starting sign-ups soon (although no idea of timings). But who needs a social life in November?

Nano might be all about writing a novel but sod it, I have a radio script I've written about two pages of and 5000 words may (or may not) be a good sort of length for it. I have a working title that I refer to it by but since it gives away the ending I'm not telling anyone what that title is yet.

So my plan is to finish it, as well as writing my ficathon pieces, and not getting distracted by any other writing :)

catskin.livejournal.com

Well, I'm catskin, or Naomi to those who know me through Cwil. (Or Nome for those who find Naomi too much effort.) I love the idea of NaNoWriMo but know that I'm far too undisciplined to write 50,000 words in a month. 5000, I can probably manage.

Current Mood: lazy

quietann.livejournal.com

"Hi, I'm Ann; I write..... fanfic."

Anyway, I write in Lois McMaster Bujold's Vorkosiverse; it's my only fandom, and a small one at that.

So in the spring, the

bujold_fic community had a ficathon (indexed at http://community.livejournal.com/bujold_fic/16423.html). Among the pieces was something by

sahiya about one of the Vorkosiverse's perpetual bachelors, Ivan Vorpatril. It was slashy, but had the following excerpt about a previous episode in his life:

He’d first slept with Donna Vorrutyer after a wedding, he recalled. Not one of hers – the daughter of one of Ivan’s mother’s friends, he thought. The details of the event itself were rather vague, especially since he’d been an even bigger fan back then of the whole “open bar” concept, but he remembered how she’d looked in a blue dress with no back and a neckline that had made his mother frown in disapproval. Ivan was used to pretty girls, but Donna . . . Donna wasn’t a girl. She wasn’t pretty either, exactly. She’d taken him home at the end of the evening – and Ivan realized now that any say he may have had in the matter had been purely for show – and made him completely forget every blushing Vor damsel he’d ever sweet-talked out of her knickers.

And now, he was at her wedding. Her third – or was it fourth? Except she wasn’t the bride this time around.

I asked

sahiya if I could grab this as a plot bunny, because Lady Donna/Lord Dono is one of my very favorite characters. And she said yes, but then I started something else, which has turned into the Fanfic Novella That Ate My Life. And I need a break. So for the challenge, I'll be writing something wicked about Lady Donna and Lord Ivan.

(For those who have not read the books, the Vor are essentially the warrior/ruling caste. They seem to have a good helping of European Regency behavioral norms, but set some thousands of years in the future. And in one of the later books, Lady Donna has an unprecendented sex change in order to fulfill her political destiny.)

Most of what I have written is indexed at http://www.lse.org/~quietann/

missiondoll.livejournal.com

Hi. Since we seem to be introducing ourselves, I'm Jess. (Personal journal:

greenlily. Fiction journal:

missiondoll. Disclaimer: I don't write fanfiction, but I do read it and occasionally analyze it and those analyses appear in

missiondoll as well.) And I'm not altogether sure why I'm here. I'm not sure, strictly speaking, if I can call myself a writer.

What I am, really, is a storyteller. Or, more accurately, a storyspotter. I get bitten by ideas all the time, usually from seeing things happen around me and going "What if...?" If an idea bites me hard enough, I'll write it out. This inevitably produces a scene, or series of scenes, rather than a plot. So I have a handful of ongoing Master Files, each of which might loosely be construed as a plan for a novel-length collection of linked short stories and novellas. I'll take the thing I've written out, file off the serial numbers and tumble it around until it fits into one of the ongoing files. And periodically I'll take out each file and read everything in it to see if I'm getting any closer to a sense of an overall plot into which all these scenes would fit. This is immensely satisfying, but it's time I tried a very different approach.

Thirty days. 5000 words. 166 words a day. No question I can do it--the question's whether I can stop after 166. I think this may be exactly what I need. :)

Current Mood: busy
Current Music: pandora.com: "It's About Time" (the Beach Boys)

ex-lark-asc.livejournal.com

My name is

lark_ascending and I'm too [slack|busy|ill|afflicted with gnomes] (delete as applicable) to do NaNo - oh wait,wrong community :)

I'm another person who got dragged to PicoWriMo via Cwil, and I haven't got the least idea what my Pico project is going to be. Normally I write things that vary along the scale from quirky magic realism to dark fantasy; I've a number of half-finished pieces sitting on my hard disk, which I suppose I could finish serially, or then again I could try and write a chapter of my darned novel. Suggestions welcome!

Current Mood: amiably confused

forodwaith.livejournal.com

I rashly encouraged

altariel1 to start this community, and she retaliated by giving me a spare set of keys. (I'll try not to scratch the paint.) I haven't decided on my PicoWriMo project yet.

I've added a few icons for the community. I'm also looking for writing-related communities in which to promote PicoWriMo, so please let me know if you have any favourite LiveJournal haunts.

tianaluthien.livejournal.com

Hey everyone :) I'm

tianaluthien -- some of you may have seen me around HASA or some other place. I've been suffering from a massive case of writer's block for, well, months actually and it's driving me up a wall. It's not actually due to lack of ideas, I don't think, but rather due to a lack of energy and focus. I'm currently working on a "short" story entitled "Hunter", which is the second of what will eventually be a series three. I've made very little progress in at least three months, so I figure I'll give this a shot and see what happens. My goal, so that I have something concrete to aim for, is to have written 5000 words by the end of November; I don't know if the story will be finished by then or nearing the end, but...it would feel so good to know that I've done something about it. I'll be juggling this on top of about half a dozen projects for school so any and all encouragement/pestering is appreciated.

Cheers and good luck to all,

Ti

Current Mood: hopeful
Current Location: home

six-old-cars.livejournal.com

Well as

altariel1 suggested we post a hello message, I thought I would do so.

Somebody from CWIL commented that a NaNoWriMo project should be something completely new and unconnected with any existing "real" project. I'm not sure whether that advice applies to PicoWriMo, but I'm not following it. I have a long-standing novel project known by the working title "The Archivist". It is making abysmally slow progress - somewhere less than a chapter a year. And I've done almost exactly nothing on it since Christmas.

So my PicoWriMo project is to produce a whole new chapter of Archivist (which will be chapter 4). I have so far jotted notes on the "stuff that should happen". Or at least, some of it. One of the problems with Archivist is that it's a twin-thread novel, with the two halves quite closely intertwined throughout (actually, that will change at some point, but that's for a much later chapter). I currently have a fairly good idea what goes on in the "left half" of chapter 4, but I'm a bit vague on the "right half".

Current Location: At work

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