Chatterbox: Chirp at Cricket

Nanowrimo

Hello, all you wonderful CBers that I actually really do not know at all... in case you guys didn't know, I'm Indigo. I joined a few years ago, and around that time made a vow to myself never to leave... so, I'm technically still here. Every so often I attempt to get myself back into the CB-ish life style. *spoiler alert: it never works* Anyhoot... November is one of my favorite months. In addition to being pleasently close to Christmas, and having Thanksgiving, and Fall being a nice season, and plenty of new books coming out... NANOWRIMO! 

This year's Nanowrimo is especially special, as they will be creating a completely new version of the Nano YWP website. Usually, they do a few simple edits, but this year it's going to be a complete redo! Think the difference between repainting your house, and all out remodeling it.

I just wanted to bring up this thread so that it can later be topped or remade as a place to tell around your new usernames. I for one will be changing mine to my new pen name. It will probably be somewhere along the lines of 866LucyBlue or Lucy_Blue or something like that.  

My life is wonderfully busy- I have to figure out a Halloween costume, I'm going to a Comic Con this Saturday, and one of my friends is bugging me to come hang out with her at the school dance this Friday- so I'm not sure if I can really pull off Nanowrimo. In addition, the past few years, I've always done 20k more than the last year. The first year I did 30,000. The second I did 50,000. And this year... well, 70,000 is such a nice number, isn't it?

To figure out if I would totally run myself into the ground doing 70k, I decided to do a week long "Nano" in which I would write the amount I would have to write during a week of Nanowrimo if I chose 70k as my word count goal... and I must say, I'm doing splendidly. Despite the fact this post is, really, just me procrasinating on both homework and doing more world building and writing... and I do a lot of procrasinating...

Anyway, have you guys every done Nano? What's your goal going to be, is so? Are you excited for the new website?