National Novel Writing Month Begins Today and We’re Participating

@JDianeAbela Yeah!! There are a bunch of us writing if you need motivation.

@RebeccaLPage I'm 6,700 words in so I'm on track. We'll see!

Ok. Gini, how the heck do you do it? I wish you all the luck in the world and can't wait to read what you come up with. BTW, thanks for the connection to Mr. Hare. Nice.

This is fantastic!  Good luck, Gini. I know this is your real dream (as a writer).

I wasn't going to to NANO Nanoo...wait, that is Mork, from Ork. Well, anyway, I hadn't planned on doing it, but I like the idea of playing, too. I'm one day behind, so I'll have to play some catch-up. No outlines for me, though, I'm going to have to just wing it.

"As it turns out, though, you can’t write the same word 50,000 times (I checked)." That's funny! This is very awesome. Good luck. I would have participated but I was on a field trip to Universal Studios with a bunch of 8th graders yesterday when I found this out - no real chance to write an outline. ("Hey kids, I'm going to sit this one out.") He he.

@ginidietrich @dcaplick @MSchechter Good luck everyone!

Got my first 2,000 done (I will need that cushion before the end of the month!).

Sounds kind of scary to me; it's sounds like the push that could get me started, but I don't know. I would like to say I'm busy and have too much on my plate but you have already shamed me by all that you have to do. 

I think I'll get my hair did instead.

Good luck. 

I heard my name.  Am I in trouble?  :-)

I do a lot of initial reviews of works - there's a score sheet that I use to get into important elements like character, plot, opening, etc.  If anyone else would like to make use of this service, please let me know.  The easiest way is by using my real name, Erik Hare, as a gmail address (how's that for anti-spam?).

I commented on @belllindsay 's post about James Joyce's Finnegan's Wake. No one has ever deciphered it. People think he was drunk and mad. It was written using 60 languages. And it surely has 50,000 words. And to this day know one knows if it was brilliance or gibberish. I have to believe we can do that here on Spin Sucks with the community. We each add one word then pass it around. Plus JK Rowling has nothing going on these days maybe she can help edit it.

I'm doing it! I already signed up. Cool to see you are doing it, too. I have a couple ideas, but will decide for certain this evening. Good luck to all who attempt it. 

Good luck, Gini! I bet you have it done by November 15, and it will be fabulous!

Like @kateupdates this is kind of short notice for me too. Have to think about it. But Good Luck to you! :)

Wow. Ok this is kinda of a short notice but I'll think about it today ... but I did just commit to no TV for the month ... hm. I'm really excited for you to do this though! I will totally buy your novel. Also, I need to buy Marketing In the Round ... I'll do that now. So maybe I'll just read that?! I'll let you know.

Phew I just finished mine. How much farther do you have @ginidietrich 

 @rdopping Well, we'll see. It may never see the light of day. 

 @geoffliving Thanks Geoff! It's definitely harder than writing a business book. A lot harder!

 @ExtremelyAvg Get on it Brian. I can't wait to see what you come up with.

 @ExtremelyAvg I can't wait to see what you write too!

 @ExtremelyAvg Do it! I can't wait to read what you write. And I love to edit...

 @aspinchick I think you win the worst nightmare of all.

 @DebraCaplick I'm six chapters in and at 3,500 words. Today was a bit harder than yesterday.

 @bdorman264 Did you get your hair did??

 @wabbitoid You're in trouble!

 @HowieG  @belllindsay OMG! You're so smart!

 @HowieG Joyce was mad.  What's wrong with that?  :-)

 @KevinVandever Sweet! I can't wait to text you about it!

 @NancyCawleyJean Um, thanks for the vote of confidence, but I think it'll take me every bit of the month.

 @Hajra   If you have something swirling in your head, you can totally do it.

 @kateupdates Did you sign up Kate? 

 @kateupdates And then you signed up!

 @HowieG  @ginidietrich HowieG how did you get so funny?!

 @ginidietrich There's the confidence we all know and love. Enjoy the process. I am sure it'll be fun.

 @ginidietrich Okay, with less than 2 hours left in day 2, I've gotten started. My project is going to be the sequel to a book I haven't finished, yet (it's at 30K). I've written 626 words. 

Tomorrow, which will be a long day at work, will be tough, but I plan on thinking about the story. I should be able to get some writing done in the evening, but I'll be well behind by day 4. Sunday will be key and I'll need to have a huge day. Still, I've done it before, so as long as I'm back in the ballpark by the end of the day, I should be fine.

 @ginidietrich Thanks. 13-year-old girls...2 hours from home. Traffic all the way back from LA. Heh. I'm not a drinker, so  had some funnel cake at to console myself.

 @ginidietrich  @HowieG  @belllindsay That's pretty much my goal in life- to compose something so potentially rife with meaning that no one dares notice that it is absolute bunk. 

 @ginidietrich I have had had some ideas swirling for some time now, might give it a try :)

 @RebeccaTodd Guilty. Did you?

 @kateupdates  @HowieG Don't encourage him, Kate.

 @rdopping LOL!! 

 @ExtremelyAvg I'm at 8,728 right now and need to get to a meeting. I need 10,000 today so have some catching up to do.

 @ginidietrich I'm off to bed, but I thought I stop in and update my count.  I'm at 4,873, so I'm creeping along.

 @ExtremelyAvg I'm at 8,500 as of this morning.

 @ginidietrich Time for a break, but I've made it to 3762. What is your count, Gini?

 @ExtremelyAvg That's OK! You're a pro at fiction writing. The fact that you're doing it is the idea!

 @ginidietrich Update...2640 on words. Still way behind.

 @Hajra  DO IT!

 @kateupdates Not yet. I'm not sure the world is ready for my words.

 @ginidietrich  @kateupdates since I posted that @bdorman264 @KenMueller and I pounded out another 50,000 words. Our secret? A car battery. Two live wire ends. And an IPhone5. It is amazing what Siri can do when under threat of being shocked.