Hey there! I'm SJ from Australia. I am hoping to finally finish my first novel this month, it's been a WIP for 10 years and I need to finally get it out of my head. I have failed NaNoWriMo more times than i can count; i blame having a full-time job but really its imposter syndrome and self-doubt. So hopefully, this challenge will help me finally get it done! Looking forward to meeting you all. Oh also i do live with a cat, but she's not mine. Emerald likes to come through to the granny flat from the main house and use us as human heaters.

Yay! Hello fellow australian! And I agree with the difficulty of writing alongside a full time job, my brain is absoltely mush after work. At least now that it's summer, it's easier to wake up early and get stuff done in the morning ☀️

Write on, SJ! You can do it!

You had me at "Hiya!" The director of my master's program would greet us with "Hiya!" Funnily enough, I wrote my one and (thus far) only novel during the fall term of that program. Way back in 2006. (I hope to revise it, finally, early next year.) Much is up in the air for me at the moment, so I've decided to moderate my noveling ambitions for this month. My aim is to write the first 25,000 - 30,000 words of a new novel during November and the remaining 20,000 - 25,0000 words next month. The novel is to be some sort of trans space opera. It's been [INSERT APPROPRIATE VERB HERE] in my mind palace for years. It probably has a zero-percent chance of being published for lucre, since it'll probably be heavy on the fanfic side of things. Meh. Best wishes for success, SJ, Bethany and JFam! Tallyho!

And I do have a cat. Her name is Samhain.

Oh lords! Your comment on a full time job is so true. One year I gave myself the grace of stream of consciousness worked into the plot so I could just write the mush straight from my brain as I loosely focused and wrote just to get there! That thing is a mess!