hannah kipje wrote:
People started gathering because the NaNo folks have started sending out emails. First to the ML's asking them if they want to go on this year and to the new volunteers asking them if they still want to step in for the ones that stopped. But I also got one from the lady that was in charge of the translations (which I did a few last year) and then Chris sent out an email to everyone asking for donations. Didn't you get that one?
Thanks for the monitor explanation, now I don't have to be so scared anymore there is something seriously wrong with my PC (although I still find it odd that the VGA card died only 1 or 2 days after the monitor started acting weird.. )

Ah, yes, I think I got that one. But one alone like that did not get me thinking about the wrting side just yet.

hannah kipje wrote:
That forum thing is a great idea to keep your NaNo novel safe each day you add something to it. So how do you do that? Just open a new board here on YUKU for instance? No wait.. you can't add any files here.. unless you all copy and paste your stories?? image

Yes, it's a cut and paste exercise - but that is no hassle really. And it is for security/back up in case anything happens to the machine I am writing it on, otherwise all the chapters are also on my computer.

And yes, I started a board, a private board - it is actually on ezboard because that was all that was available at the time, but same sort of deal. And it isn't just for NaNo novels, but all my writings - including things that have been simmering on the back burner after an opening chapter, and things I have put on open boards, (including the Viggo and Orlando based stories), or things I have entered in competitions. If anything, it is probably more secure than establishing a private website. One day we will all keep our private stuff on the internet, or something like it, even diaries (I suppose Myspace and Facebook have already begun that trend), private finance details, everything (there is a short SF story about it, and the movie "Final Cut" is close as well although that is about cyber chips)

hannah kipje wrote:
Thanks Seli, I am pretty strong on the organisational side aren't I? image

I hope my back is better by november, but as long as it does not get worse, I think it may still work.

I thought the first year I got you gals to join me was the greatest, because you were all new and I was the only experienced one and it was so much fun coaching you guys that time! But I am also very proud that I have been able to transfer the NaNo virus to at least one of my 'pupils' (and I mean you.. image)
Yes, you are, but in a good way.
It's a shame some of the others don't always have the stick-to-it'iveness to complete the challenge in subsequent years. Ah well.

tee hee hee hee (and I think I have passed it on to others too, even if they haven't always completed it - at least more people know about it)

Funny thing - last year, I had my laptop with me every day at work and tried to lay down a few paragraphs at lunch time. One of the middle bosses wandered past the lunch room and amde (what he tought would be a funny) comment "You writing a novel?" to which I naturally answered "Yes" and told him about NaNo. <giggle>