i started doing character sketches for my nano characters and it seemed to jumpstart me.  but that could've also been adrenaline from actually committing to doing nano in print.  either way, 2 of the 3 MCs have names now and some details worked out, so yay, me!  i also think i found a title that will work for what i want to write.  it is hard to think up good titles that other people haven't already used.  i first got the idea for my nano from this here poem by edna st. vincent millay, who rocks the sonnet like nobody since shakespeare:

From Fatal Interview
VIII

Yet in an hour to come, disdainful dust,
You shall be bowed and brought to bed with me.
While the blood roars, or when the blood is rust
About a broken engine, this shall be.
If not today, then later; if not here
On the green grass, with sighing and delight,
Then under it, all in good time, my dear,
We shall be laid together in the night.
And ruder and more violent, be assured,
Than the desirous body's heat and sweat
That shameful kiss by more than night obscured
Wherewith at length the scornfullest mouth is met.
Life has no friend; her converts late or soon
Slide back to feed the dragon with the moon.
                                        --E. St. V. M.

did i mention i heart her?  i do.  and i think i am going with "Blood to Rust" for my title.  i call "dibs" if anyone else was thinking of using that.  and, no, it's not about vampires.  just blood.  and rust, conveniently enough.  and other stuff, including some UST between 2 of my MCs that i am hoping will be thick enough to cut with a machete.  i am getting pretty excited about this nanowrimo idea; the possibility that i could crank out 50K words about the same characters, much less in a month, makes me sort of awed, in the scared to death way as well as in the potential reams of pride way.  we'll see!
--Hb

p.s. so on a "weird coincidence" note: i am listening to a LONG playlist that i made a while ago and as i went to post this, "honey and the moon" by joseph arthur started playing.  it's a lovely song, but the reason this is exciting is that one of the lyrics goes: "we're made out of blood and rust, looking for someone to trust without a fight" - spooky.