Eesh! So mine is getting off to a slow start. I'm only at about 800 words. Once I get into it, it'll be fairly easy for me to crank out 1667 a day till the end. But it's the starting that gets me. How's everyone else doing?

Well, if anyone's interested in following my novel, here's a link to my NaNo,<br /> <a href="http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/participants/gladdy/novels/the-eccentric-and-the-hatter">The Eccentric and The Hatter</a>

Woot it has begun for my timezone anyway! xD <br /> <br /> I will be working on an idea I've been...plotting...for several years. I havent actually sat down and wrote the darn thing, though, so this is the perfect opportunity for me to hopefully get myself to work on it and actually get a lot done >.&lt; I'm going to try and make myself do so, anyway.<br /> <br /> Perhaps next year, if I manage to finish this... I will try jumping into it without any preparation ahead of time, just to see how it goes :3<br /> <br /> Heeey we should all become writing buddies :D Then we can prod at each other if our word counts are low! xD

Yeah, I understand being paranoid. :[ I'm that way with my art sometimes, and that doesn't take nearly as much effort as NaNoWriMo.<br /> <br /> Hold on to that optimism, Three. ^^<br /> <br /> Character meetings are so exciting. :3

I may post online, but I'm usually pretty paranoid about it >.&lt;<br /> <br /> I'm in the same boat! I have characters that have to meet and go somewhere, but I can't decide how they should meet. Everything I try just feels wrong >.&lt;

I might post it online, but honestly it'll probably need to be edited like crazy. So it'll probably be well after November before I get it ready to be read by anyone. My goal is to do absolutely no editing until I've reached 50k words.<br /> <br /> I've never been so determined for NaNoWriMo before. <br /> <br /> Which is weird, because I still have NO IDEA how to begin my novel - I don't know how my characters will run into each other. D: <br /> <br /> Despite that, I'm still more optimistic than I've been in the past.<br /> <br /> Watch me just blow it, though XD

<a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/82291878/keep-writing-inspirational-cross-stitch?ref=sc_4">A good response</a> to your internal critic. :P (I kind of want to buy it. I could put it right above my computer.)<br /> <br /> I was struggling internally with whether to do NaNo this year, but I think I'm not motivated enough to stick to it. Maybe I'll just try to write something every day instead; that'll be better than my current apathetic "I'll get written someday" attitude.<br /> <br /> Out of curiosity, are any of you planning on posting what you write online? I'd love to read some good novels during November. :3

How have you trained yourself to do that? Or is it just something that came to you naturally? <br /> <br /> My internal critic is a horrible person than instills crippling anxiety into my soul.<br />

So am I :P<br /> <br /> It's not that I don't brainstorm, it's just that I don't put too much weight into what I think up. If I do, my internal critic yells at me and tells me it's an overused idea and it's not original and that no one will like it and that it's horrible and etc. I keep trying to shut her up, but it's not working. Therefore, I jump in more or less blind. XD

Roo, I'm totally curious as to how people do that.<br /> <br /> I don't really plan a lot, but I always plan out the beginning, what the antagonists wants, and the end. I feel like if I didn't know the plot in this basic way, I'd never get anything done. But then it comes down to the day before November and if I don't have one of those things figured out I start to panic. I really wish I knew how to just write spontaneously. I feel like it would make NaNoWriMo a lot less stressful for me.