I JUST found this thread. Loved reading through the push of November. DH and I have been working on a series for a VERY long time now. I wish I'd known about the NaNoWriMo site. DH had so much going on that we likely would have had to skip it this year.
I am the techie of the two of us so just taught myself YWriter to help organize our thoughts. Do any of you use a tool like that. Is this tool adequate or am I missing something better. I liked the price, FREE.
DH writes the rough scenes and we use Join Me meetings to take his rough thoughts to the next level collaboratively. Because we are co-writing I like that we can each sit at our own workstation at home and make changes on the fly while the other watches. I feel we do a decent job at fleshing out the plots and subplots, it remains to be seen if we have the skill to button up everything nicely in the end however.
DH loves to draw out timelines, diagrams, artifacts etc on graph paper and he is going to scan those ASAP (I am going to bug him tonight). Since this series is his own made up world, there are endless world building tasks to be done and at times, that stalls out the creative writing time while we work out a world conundrum.
I am theproofer, editor, subject matter contributor and all around cheer squad.
I imported about 25k words this weekend and sorted through it all, luckily we'd already added lines for section breaks which made it easy to have YWriter automagically break up the scenes within the chapters.
I see some of you write by hand, DH is a mix and I am totally computer oriented, I am a developer trained IT person so hand writing anything feels so slow and tedious.
I am not sure if next November DH and I can do a one month writing cram, but by then I "hope" we've finished what would be the first of the series, or perhaps just one of a series in the timeline he has created.
We have established our reading group. A friend already published his first book (self published) and is in that group. This group of folks are avid bookworms, some don't even read our genre but they are family so have no choice but to read and comment:) Family tend to be encouraging but also blunt when we miss something.
Is this thread going to continue even though it is now past November? or is there another writing thread I can tap into?
Good luck to everyone!