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blue moon:
Anyone else a NaNoWriMo junkie?  This year will be my third NaNo.  I've already started kicking around ideas, when I'm not working on editing/completing my 2004 NaNo. 

What do you think of the screenwriting challenge?  I'm interested to try it, just because it's a completely new area for me. 

Amber:
I tried last year, but life, career, etc got in the way.

We'll have to see how things are going this year.

Gemini:
I tried last year for the first time, got the story finished but was nearly 20,000 words shy. I'm trying to edit it to flesh out the parts I felt were really thin *but* I dunno....

Donna:
Last year was my first year and I'm going to do it again this November.  I made my 50,000 words and even finished the book in time to get my free copy from Lulu.  I've been editing it.  A few friends have read it and had nice things to say about it.  One of them is helping me edit.

I tend to procrastinate and keep checking over one or two paragraphs obsessively.  Nano helped free me from that, at least for one month.  It wasn't great prose, but it was an actual story!  My characters seem realistic to me and they made their way through a plot of sorts, with a beginning, middle and end.  My characters did stuff!  They changed and moved forward as a result of that stuff! ;D

So many people want to write a book, and of these only a small percentage even try.  And of those, an even smaller percentage actually finish.  Even if nothing more comes from it, I have the satisfaction of knowing I wrote a book.

Thank you, blue moon, for mentioning the screenwriting challenge.  I hadn't been on nano's site for a few months and I might have missed it.  I think it's a great idea.   They won't have it ready until next year though, but I have enough commitments for this year anyway.

SharonBrown:
I've done NaNo for four years in a row, with "wins" my first and last year. Lack of passion for my storyline swamped me the second year, and dealing with the fallout from my mother's October death took me out the third year.

Of course, I've never actually finished the content of a novel, just met my 50,000 word quota.

Once in awhile I'd like to go back and work on my first year's effort, but I still can't figure out how to finish it. In fact, one of my biggest problems with writing is that I can create a great set-up, but I can never figure out how to resolve the issues that I raise. It's like committing a crime but not being able to solve the crime later on.

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