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I love the vid! As DawnWriting said, your problem with no plot is what I always suffer from. I am starting to freak out because I have a bunch of small ideas that I'm not sure I can expand into 50k. And I want to win this year. Or at least get past 28k. >.>

I'm so happy you're back!! I have to start off by saying how our stories became is so similar. I have had the story I'm writing in my head since I was about 12...I was a very weird kid. My story is about how a young couple gets engaged and gets very overwhelmed by the wedding planning process so they decide to elope. They then realize how much it would hurt their families if they canceled the wedding so they decide to keep their marriage a secret, and go through with the wedding anyway. I am kind of in a similar place with I know how it will start and end but I don't know how to connect them yet. I hope I can figure it out during this month and finally get this story out of my head. Good luck with nanowrimo this year!! I added you as a buddy and the little bit you said about your story sounds VERY good!!

Thanks for advice and I love your glasses!! :)

Your opening close-ups had me cracking up. IT IS HERE. That's a lot of stress and things on your plate, so the fact that you're participating in NaNo at all is impressive! Fingers crossed for you and the program! Good luck with your writing this month. :)

One of the things I really like about NaNo is seeing all the different approaches to prepping, from extreme planning to starting with nothing. It's great to see how every approach has its advantages and drawbacks and can be honed. I hope your novel writing is going well.

HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY!!!! And best of luck with the novel writing month in between your busy schedule. I'm also going to be so flipping busy. I'm traveling from South Africa to Canada for half of the month which is really going to eat up my writing time if I want to enjoy the country!!

This year I'm working on two prior NaNo projects. One with an outline I need to finish, and one I'm completely re-writing and am pantsing.

Happy Birthday

Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday!!!!!!!!!! I'm still trying to decide if I want to do nano this year. I have a story that I thought of about 3-4 years ago that I've been thinking about lately. I just found all the notes I have about it so I'm going to look through them and see if that helps. I can't believe it's almost November.

Trè adorbs! You and the pattern.

I always prep for everything in my life. its bad cuz I put off so many normal things people do cuz I didnt "prep" for it

I've outlined almost my entire novel now - I hope I don't struggle to put the words down!! Eeeek. Hahaha when you lose your place in your notebook. Oooops.

This design looks great!! The vines are beautiful and I love how the A looks. I am trying to organize my 5 boxes of thread so all the matching colors are together. I feel like it's going to take a while.

I seem to prep to prep but never get round to it. So come November 1st I just have to furiously type with half an idea.

good luck ^^ Love your glasses btw ;)

I shared my first project on instagram!! instagram.com/p/BaSY_wygDKL/

I've always been a pantser but this year I finally decided to prep. I can't wait for November!

I am once again attempting NaNo this year. For my past 3 attempts - the last 3 years - I have had a full student schedule and a full rehearsal, tech, and performance schedule over October and November. But this year, I do not have quite as much obligatory life stuff going on, so i'm hoping I can finally NaNo and focus like I want to. I have never been very good at prep, but I did recently pick up a book on writers and writing by Neil Gaiman called "The View from the Cheap Seats" that has been very inspirational for me!

This design looks great!! I can't wait to see what the next one looks like!!

Good luck with this year! Loving the many pumpkins in your background too 😄

I have always had a tendency of writing fanfictions during NaNoWriMo, even when I have tried to do original works I find myself getting bored of them. Which I think is due to my prepping for it in advance and I just don't feel motivated for it when November does finally come along. However fanfictions are always my go-to, I can always create some kind of story from one, or many, of my fandoms. I will be challenging myself next month too, even with working in a store - although I have had that challenge for a while now - and the added bonus of going to a wedding, in Canada, when am in Scotland, so might lose a few days to that. Over all am rather excited for next month. I do wonder, do other's go to the writing meet-up's that are had in their local groups in relation to NaNoWriMo forums?

Are you doing stitchery witchery this year? I have been drawing patterns for the last week trying to get enough for the whole month of October.

Hi Sunny! I have been thinking about doing some cross stitch projects recently. I watched your stitchery witchery adventure last year and it looks like fun!! I wanted to know if you would be doing it again this year because I would like to try as well.

whoa! hey stranger! I think I started following you in NaNo (failed miserably, bee tee dubs) but I've been reading up a storm. Welcome back. :) And I loved this book so much. I cannot wait for the next one to come out....so I can reread it. :)

I'm a bit late, but I really want to congratulate you. Well done!

Yay congrats Sunny!! I'm glad you shared this video, I loved watching your reaction right after you won! I've been filming myself win each year, but I'm not as bubbly and fun as you are! Haha I really hope you can find time to keep writing. As my thoughts turn to everything I need to do before Christmas, I am nervous that I won't get much writing done this month. But I really want to keep the momentum going, like you said!

Glad to hear that you succeeded! I would love to hear some excerpts from your writing!

Good job! Hehe I think you were losing your mind a little after you finished!!

You are doing so well!!! Awesome! I love your grandma's paintings. :) Thanks for the advice on how to push through. The hardest part is feeling stuck. And oooh, yeah, I'm not gonna make it- but, I'm happy with where I'm going to end up!

fanfiction.net wattpad is mostly for your stories.

Regarding that plot book - I've always felt like you should listen to an agent about how to get an agent, but listen to writers for writing advice- seems like every agent eventually says "write what has already been successful" and writers are like WRITE FOR YOURSELF! CREATE! BE UNIQUE!

Yay NaNoWriMo peeps! You got this! *Waves pompoms like a manic cheer leader*

I have really enjoyed your journey this month. I started watching because I found your channel from a search for NaNoWriMo. I buddied you on there. I love the skulls and the Christmas stuff. Don't let a few bad days take away your joy in your accomplishments and the new knowledge you have about yourself as a person.

I get so excited when I see your updates, good luck! I needed that part about being okay with lowering the goal if you have high stress....I may do this I want to see how the first week goes, but I rather adjust the goal then give up. Thanks, and I hope your move goes well!

I also am going to try not to write in order for the first time and let myself jump around more.

I can't believe that over the summer I literally had 3 different story ideas for NaNo but I wasn't sure which one! Now I know my idea and I'm really excited to see where this goes! It's currently 8 and I'm so excited for midnight, but I need to sleep lol what do I do?! Ahhhh 😬😂

Yahoo! I loved your designs this month, and I'm excited for more stitching and nano videos, hope the move goes well!

The theme it's actually very important. By choosing a theme you choose your characters, your locations and most of your plot. The theme is the heart of any good novel. Any novel which stands out - from Goethe's Faust to Orwell's 1984 - are reinterpretations of a certain theme. It is boring, I know, but grasping the true concept of theme is what made people become great authors since the days of the ancient Greeks. I really encourage you to study it when you can find the time.

I write by the seat of my pants, I failed to accomplish anything significant for NaNoWriMo in 2014 so I am giving it a shot this year...but I have 3 stories to choose from and it is driving me nuts.

Oh my! That is a lot, moving so far and finding new jobs and doing NANO! It does make the month exciting though :)

Well congratulations on new beginnings, both in your personal life and in your new story you've settled on! It sounds like this Nano is going to be a really tough one, but it's not about winning. It's about commiting to a story you love. I tried this week to write like it was Nano, and I ended up with a 2,849 word night of tortured bliss where I was writing like a slug 1900 words in, then a 408 word flop where I couldn't even finish my last sentence I had started, and then yesterday, a "you know what? Just focus on getting the house clean okay?" day. I told myself, write to that one really yummy scene you love and you would think I'd be like, and then this happened and then that happened and then BOOOM! Sex scene, but no... I'm actually trying to craft an authentic life for my characters. My first week of Nano is going to be a loss unless I am an insomniac; I'm going on vacation to Washington D.C. for a week! How can I write with all of those museums and pretty trees to look at? Plus Pokemon Go? Hehe! But to me, my real life, my obligations and chores, and this vacation too, are more important than keeping up my word count. I can't let my house go to disarray and ignore my cats just because my story needs to get written. So anyway- my thought to you is, don't stress yourself out. Enjoy the move, the stress (enjoy stress? yikes!) the changes in your life, the uncertainty; allow it to feed your writing if some of those emotions prompt you, but don't beat yourself up if 1700 words a day every single day is just too much to ask at this point in your life.

I also have the Plot Perfect book, I haven't finished it yet... I've had it for about a year now.

This was fun to watch.

OMG! You really are a planner! I like seeing how other people plan although I don't plot. I usually have a character or a title or a line that sparks the idea and then I go from there. I might find some visuals and past them into a little book or folder, but not much other than that. It always amazes me that people can set out every chapter and such. Woot! I am so a pantser. When I've planned I've gotten bored with the story. Every story I've planned never makes it much beyond 10,00 words.

But anyway... I have decided what I want to do, it is a vampire comedy. the idea struck me a few years ago, that vampires are either sexy and brooding, or sexy and evil. Why can a vampire be that dorky nerdy guy sitting in the corner of your favorite coffee shop. sorry about all the other messages I like discussing plot ideas with other writers

In a new good by, please ease in to the romance, and don't make the girl a damsel in distress. She is new to the secret world, so she brings a new perspective to the rules, maybe she finds some interesting loopholes. If she does get pregnant, maybe her motivation is a little less about her one true love, and more about her refusing to take care of the kid on her own.

In color of magic, the girl may decide to learn the other magic's she can see could be that, there is a color dying out. Or maybe there are only primary magic colors, and she invents her own color

I love the 'Model Wife' concept. its something I would really want to read. Also the other story idea about the girl seeing colour in a colourless world, sounds really interesting!

Thanks for the videos! Keep them coming please!