Character Bios

2015 – 2018

Mel (First Appeared Nov 9, 2011) – Mel has a vlog about NaNoWriMo. In 2015, she moved away from her home region and met a brand new set of wrimos. She is currently a roommate of Tala.

Tala (First Appeared Nov 7, 2015) – Tala gets excited very easily. She loves lots of things and likes to give hugs and appear in vlogs. She is roommates with Mel.

Yuki (First Appeared Nov 7, 2015) – Yuki was the ML for her region in 2015. She is a little bit shy and also very morbid.

Pari (First Appeared Nov 18, 2015) – Pari is the ML for her region in 2016. She is left handed, hand writes all her novels, and is driven and confident.

2014

Jen (First Appeared Nov 1, 2010) – Jen loves Nanowrimo, but it stresses her out a great deal. She is focused, serious, and doesn’t understand why Nano is so difficult for her. She’s roommates with Rob.

Rob (First Appeared Nov 1, 2010) – Rob has never won a NaNoWriMo. He likes the social aspect and eating a lot of chips. He is dating Bea. He is Jen’s roommate.

Victoria (First Appeared Nov 4, 2010) – Victoria was the Municipal Liaison (ML) for years 2010 and 2011. She is strong, independent, and takes NaNoWriMo very seriously. She has temporarily moved to a new city meeting brand new Wrimos.

Dave (First Appeared Nov 1, 2010) – Dave was introduced to NaNoWriMo by Rob and Jen. He started dating Victoria soon after. Surprisingly, he is good at NaNoWriMo.

2012 – 2013

Victoria (First Appeared Nov 4, 2010) – Victoria was the Municipal Liaison (ML) for years 2010 and 2011. She is strong, independent, and takes NaNoWriMo very seriously. She has temporarily moved to a new city meeting brand new Wrimos.

Fran (First Appeared Nov 4, 2012) – Fran is 16 and is new to NaNo this year. She’s outgoing, excitable, and threatens to slay Ed on a daily basis for his teasing boycrush comments. She’s an over achiever and pleased with her wordcount. (Thanks to Dawn for Bio)

Ed (First Appeared Nov 5, 2012) – Ed is a NaNoWriMo veteran who loves getting people to relax around him. Once he finds a quirk, nickname, or teasing comment that annoys the person, he’ll use it without mercy. He seems to be more focused on the social aspects of NaNoWriMo than actual writing. When Fran steals his laptop as a prank, she and Victoria find him to be a very talented writer. (Thanks to Dawn for Bio)

Tim (First Appeared Nov 7, 2012) – Tim is a NaNoWriMo veteran who is desperately trying to get his novel published. He’s a little insecure, quiet, and sad.

2011

Jen (First Appeared Nov 1, 2010) – Jen loves Nanowrimo, but it stresses her out a great deal. She is focused, serious, and doesn’t understand why Nano is so difficult for her. She’s roommates with Rob.

Rob (First Appeared Nov 1, 2010) – Rob has never won a NaNoWriMo. He likes the social aspect and eating a lot of chips. Known to like girls. He is Jen’s roommate.

Dave (First Appeared Nov 1, 2010) – Dave was introduced to NaNoWriMo by Rob and Jen. He started dating Victoria soon after. Surprisingly, he is good at NaNoWriMo.

Victoria (First Appeared Nov 4, 2010) – Victoria was the Municipal Liaison (ML) for years 2010 and 2011. She is strong, independent, and takes NaNoWriMo very seriously.

Andrew (First Appeared Oct 28, 2011) – Andrew is the CO-Municipal Liaison (ML) for 2011. He is laid back, likes to hand make a lot of prizes, and tends to be very busy. Almost too busy for Nano Events.

Carol (First Appeared Oct 31, 2011)) – Carol joined NaNoWriMo because of Jen, however she had no idea it had to do with writing. She ended up enjoying it and winning that year.

Bea (First Appeared Oct 31, 2011)) – Bea is single. She wants to date a boy.

Mel (First Appeared Nov 9, 2011)) – Mel is a blogger of a popular website. She is currently blogging about the different activities that happens during the month of NaNoWriMo. She focuses mostly on the drama.

34 comments on “Character Bios”

  3. Rob is a chip eating, very distracting, chip eating, person.
    He enjoys: Chips, the company of girls, annoying Jen his roommate, and failing nanowrimo.

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  6. Fran is 16. This is her first ‘NaNoYear’.(Pppffftt!)
    (Note this is all I know about her from the comics. mmmm. I think the real one should wait for more…)
    (Da da daaaaaaaah!)

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  10. Fran is 16 and is new to NaNo this year. She’s outgoing, excitable, and threatens to slay Ed on a daily basis for his teasing boycrush comments. She’s very confident of her word count, though she’s rarely seen actually writing.
    Ed is a NaNoWriMo veteran who loves getting people to relax around him. Once he finds a quirk, nickname, or teasing comment that annoys the person, he’ll use it without mercy. (BTW, is he a former ML?) He seems to be more focused on the social aspects of NaNoWriMo than actual writing. When Fran steals his laptop as a prank, she and Victoria find him to be a very talented writer.

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      1. I figured we wold find out who the M.L is at the strip about there TGIO party It would be interesting if it turned out to be Fran. and she didn’t know it

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  16. Why is Victoria on there twice? (sorry if this has been brought up already. I didn’t read through the comments)

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  19. I keep thinking about what type of writers each of the cast actually are. I just decided to go down the list to see what actually fits with what we know about their writing.

    Mel: Plantser / leaning Pantser (she seems to want to have a little bit of an idea of what she is going to write, but she seems to write the most when the story goes off the rails)

    Tala: ??? (she has an army of bunnies and baby Yodas in her head pulling stories from the ether and psychically transferring them to her computer so that she finishes within the first three minutes of November 1st)

    Yuki: Pure Pantser (one of the few characters that never talks about any kind of outline, is susceptible to new ideas to put in her novel on the fly, and paints herself into corners so she is forced to keep killing off her main characters)

    Pari: Pure Planner (this one is hard, but seeing as she writes by hand I would think that she would want to make sure to end her novel as close as possible to 50k so she does not tear up her arms, so I say she probably has a well thought out plan before she starts)

    Jen: Planner (she never seems to have finished her outline before November, so we can assume that she can write without one, but as each year goes by and she continues to panic over not having one seems to suggest that she is using some form of the outline as the month rolls on)

    Rob: Plantser / leaning Planner (he has been known to panic just as much about not having an outline as Jen does, but from his personality, I find it highly unlikely that his reliance on his plans are hard and fast. I imagine that when he wins it is largely due to him having stuck with his plan, but I don’t see him being as plan heavy as Jen)

    Dave: Pure Pantser (was completely surprised before his second year to learn that outlines were even a thing, and since he never has been shown planning beforehand since, I think we can assume that he was the comic’s original Pantser)

    Victoria: Middle of the road Plantser (she never seemed to have time to do her outline and ML as the story began, but she did always have great success, however her commitment to having some plan would put her squarely in the middle as a Plantser)

    Bea and Carol: Pantsers (neither had heard of Nanowrimo long enough to create an outline beforehand, Carol even said she was simply working out what was going into her novel in her head, and since the two seemed to have similar personalities, it probably means that Bea was doing the same thing too)

    Andrew: does he even write?

    2012 region: mostly used as a gag to bounce off Victoria so hard to say what their styles were.

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