NaNoWriMo PenPal Sign-Ups

[crowsb4bros]

Hi all!

This month we will provide the opportunity to have a penpal again! The idea is to give people a pal to write to over the course of the month. This is a great opportunity to get to know other members better and to encourage each other to meet writing goals!

Here's how to participate!

- Post saying that you're in by 11:59pm GMT on October 30th.

- We will pair you up with someone. The goal is that it will be someone you don't know very well or haven't interacted with a whole bunch. (Pairings will be posted on November 1st GMT)

- You must commit to writing to your penpal AT LEAST 4 times throughout the month. They don't have to be very long letters, but they should be substantial and encouraging. Ideally, you'd check in more than that, but 4 times is the bare minimum.

- We are only allowing each participant to have one penpal. We want you to have an opportunity to really get to know your penpal.

 

To sign up, please use the following form:

• Pen Name:
• Goal:
• House:
• Nano Project:
• Will you be posting as you go?:
•  Link to your NANO Nest:
• What can your penpal do to help encourage you along?:

 

We hope to see you all sign up!

[WalkingDredd]

• Pen Name: WalkingDredd
• Goal: 50K
• House: Hufflepuff
• Nano Project: Untitled so far Marauders
• Will you be posting as you go?: I shall be trying my hardest to 
•  Link to your NANO Nest: Clicky+
• What can your penpal do to help encourage you along?: Pop in from time to time to make sure that I am writing, I'm hoping that having some encouragement will help me write as many words as I can, as quickly as I can. My baby is due on the 15th, so I'm hoping that I can get writing done before he gets here (If he doesn't come earlier haha)

[crowsb4bros]

• Pen Name: crowsb4bros
• Goal: 50k
• House: ravenclaw
• Nano Project: A Spectral Affair! 
• Will you be posting as you go?: nope!
•  Link to your NANO Nest: here+
• What can your penpal do to help encourage you along?: If you see me procrastinating just yell at me. Ask me about my characters. Tell me to write a plot and leave my characters alone. Gifs appreciated. 

[Guest Noelle Zingarella]

• Pen Name: Noelle Zingarella
• Goal: 50K
• House: Gryffindor
• Nano Project: libera et al
• Will you be posting as you go?: yes
•  Link to your NANO Nest: Here!
• What can your penpal do to help encourage you along?: I love words of encouragement, pep talks, and questions about my projects. 

[Lost_Robin]

Pen Name: Lostrobin
Goal: 50k
House: Ravenclaw
Nano Project: Apple Blossoms and AP Tests (and others)
Will you be posting as you go?: Not the main thing, but some stuff, yeah
 Link to your NANO Nest: Here!
What can your penpal do to help encourage you along?: Ask questions, prod me to keep writing, general support, I guess

[magpie]

• Pen Name: magpie
• Goal: 50K (god bless)
• House: Hufflepuff
• Nano Project: untitled next-gen
• Will you be posting as you go?: undecided
• Link to your NANO Nest: +
• What can your penpal do to help encourage you along?: Literally yell at me if you even suspect I’m procrastinating. General support: GIFs, pep talks, questions about my characters, telling me to move on when I come crying about having rewritten a paragraph five times and counting.

[victoria_anne]

Pen name: victoria_anne
Goal: 50k / the first draft
House: Hufflepuff 
NaNo project: The Inventor and the Comet
Will you be posting as you go: No
Link to your NaNo nest: Here
What can your penpal do to encourage you along: Check-ins, cheerleading, someone to bounce ideas off 

[800 words of heaven]

Pen Name: 800 words of heaven
Goal: 50k
House: Slytherin
NaNo Project: Not Normal
Will you be posting as you go: I shall be resisting the temptation
Link to Novel Nest: click me
What can your pen pal do to encourage you along: Whatever they can, with whatever powers they possess, because I am very difficult to motivate when I don't want to do something! Procrastination, thy name is 800 - so please be as mean as you feel you need to kick my butt into gear, and remind me that I've made this 50k commitment and it's not gonna write itself!

[belgian quaffle]

Pen Name: belgian quaffle
Goal: +/- 2k
House: gryffindor 
Nano Project: all the projects
Will you be posting as you go?: possibly, depending on what i actually end up writing
Link to your NANO Nest: +click
What can your penpal do to help encourage you along?: lots of encouragement and cheerleading, motivational gifs, yell at me when i'm procrastinating, pep talks to get me moving when i'm stuck (i've hit a bit of a block and just want to get writing again so really anything that would get me going again), some general chatting!

[down-in-flames]

Pen Name: down-in-flames
Goal: write something every day
House: gryffindooooooooooor
Nano Project: literally everything
Will you be posting as you go?: depends on the fic
Link to your NANO Nest: +pow
What can your penpal do to help encourage you along?: just check in occasionally to see if i've written something that day, ask me questions, let me ramble about things, the whole 9 yards 

[crowsb4bros]

Welcome to the first day of NaNo! Here's your penpals! 

@Lost_Robin & @Noelle Zingarella

@magpie & @belgian quaffle

@WalkingDredd & @800 words of heaven

@down-in-flames & @victoria_anne

@crowsb4bros & @something wicked

@Eirene & @crowsb4bros

Remember that we ask that you write your penpal a minimum of 4 times during the event!

Good luck!  

[Eirene]

• Pen Name: Eirene29
• Goal: 50k
• House: Slytherin
• Nano Project: A Time for Wolves (AU centered on RL and SB)
• Will you be posting as you go?: yup, I think so 
•  Link to your NANO Nest: https://hpfanfictalk.com/topic/5938-a-time-for-wolves-by-eirene29/
• What can your penpal do to help encourage you along?: Planning, criticism, brainstorming, honest opinions....everything lol