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NAFADOYBIMSCOM: It Begins!

Who am I going to be this Halloween? I'm dressing up as a Productive American Novelist, thanks to my version of NaNoWriMo, NAFADOYBIMSCOM (NAtional Finish A Draft Of Your Book I Mean Seriously Come On Month).

Surprisingly enough, NAFADOYBIMSCOM has really caught on. Suddenly, it's not just me who's going to work hard to finish a draft of a book during the month of November. The all-star NAFADOYBIMSCOM lineup (although we'll see how serious they are about it) includes:

E. Lockhart (if you are among the three living American teenagers who has not yet read any of E. Lockhart's books, you should rectify this problem immediately)

Cecil Castellucci (who wrote [and is the] Queen of Cool)

Sara Zarr (author of the still-forthcoming Story of a Girl)

Coe Booth (who wrote the excellent Tyrell)

Colleen Cook (who is apparently going to finish two manuscripts)

Ally Carter (whose book I'd Tell You I Love You But Then I'd Have to Kill You is a really fun book about attending a spy school)

Carrie Jones (member of the class of 2k7 and author of Tips on Having a Gay (Ex)Boyfriend)

Tanya Lee Stone (who wrote the widely acclaimed A Bad Boy Can Be Good for a Girl)

Also I'm pretty sure that my friend Keir Graff is doing this, although he has never heard of NAFADOYBIMSCOM, so we'll include him.

Also, we'll include Joyce Carol Oates, because she is surely finishing something in November.

In short, NAFADOYBIMSCOM is a publishing phenomenon. I'll be updating daily on my progress (or, if I don't have any progress to report, I'll update you on Cecil's progress or something). I started NAFADOYBIMSCOM early, actually, and I'm pleased to report I wrote 1,600 words yesterday.

In other news: David Levithan and I were walking through the airport in Austin, Texas a couple days ago, and I swear to God we heard the following announcement over the loudspeaker: "If you're missing a bolo tie, please return to the security checkpoint." God bless Texas.

9 Comments:

At October 31, 2006 , Anonymous Anonymous said...

Ah, Texas maybe, but it says that Arizona made the bolo their official neckware in 1971. I'm amazed that one of our states has an official "neckware," let alone making that neckware a bolo tie.

And "Yay!" to Colleen Cook, Carrie Jones, and all the others participating.

-Wes

 
At October 31, 2006 , Anonymous Anonymous said...

I would say that maybe it was for Halloween, but who would I be kidding? Actually, I think there is someone wearing a bola tie in the background of one of my pictures from the Hideout. I'll have to look into this...

 
At October 31, 2006 , Blogger lili said...

oh, me too!

i have to submit my final novel draft by the end of november...

(goes and sticks head in bucket)

 
At November 01, 2006 , Anonymous Anonymous said...

Dude, I'll join in. I'm 2/3 of the way through a MS and could use the company. (If'n it's okay, that is.)

Barb AKA Caridad

 
At November 01, 2006 , Anonymous Anonymous said...

My favorite story about the Texas airport is, well, my only story about the Texas airport. I was headed to Mexico with some friends several years ago and we stopped for magaritas (or something like that) in a bar there. I look up and they're all wandering out of the bar, glasses clasped in hand, to go out to the gate. I say, "But, guys, you can't take your drinks out of the bar." My friend Betsy shakes her head at me like I don't know anything (mostly true) and says, "This is Texas. I'm pissed they didn't bring us these when we got off the plane."

I'm desperately trying to finish a novel draft this month (or so), but I'm already doing JoNoWriThingie. How many thingies can one writer join at a time?

 
At November 01, 2006 , Anonymous Anonymous said...

Gwenda:

I'm doing one MS for JoNo and one more for John. Two total. Just 2500 words a day...

They don't have to be good, right? Just down on paper. *grin*

 
At November 06, 2006 , Blogger Keir said...

I jumped the gun. I thought NAFADOYBIMSCOM was September. So my novel's already with my editor. Sorry about that. I am, however, trying to finish two short stories that total an ungodly 17,500 words. So it's not as if I'm sitting on the sidelines with an umbrella drink. I'm sitting at the computer with an umbrella drink.

 
At November 11, 2006 , Blogger Penni Russon said...

Oh groan, count me in. But then again considering I am here procrastination (following random links in other people's blogs) perhaps you shouldn't.

MAybe we should all finish each other's drafts instead.

 
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