October 2007

on 2007/10/31 by NewMexicoKid, [NaNoWriMo]

Tonight is the big Illinois::Naperville kick-off at the 95th Street Library in Naperville (from 7-9 pm). It’s not too late to RSVP to let us know you are attending. As for me, I’ve chipped away at my plot preparations: Was it enough? Only time will tell… Don’t forget–we have 3 hour write-ins scheduled for 1-4 [...]

on 2007/10/27 by NewMexicoKid, [NaperWriMo]

Today was our fantastic pre-kick-off potluck party. I have to say that it was a lot of fun; and everyone who attended seemed to enjoy themselves tremendously. We had lunch sitting together around a very large table made up of several tables that had been pushed together. The writing exercise we did turned out to [...]

on 2007/10/23 by NewMexicoKid, [NaperWriMo]

The pre-NaNoWriMo jabber writing sessions will be Friday (October 26th), 8-9 pm and Saturday (October 27th), 8-9 pm. If you do not yet have a jabber account and would like to participate, please send me a NaNomail or e-mail. Since it will be before November 1st, we cannot write anything for our NaNo novels; however, [...]

on 2007/10/21 by tinygreyhound, [NaperWriMo]

Hi, Everyone! We had a great turnout. I just thought I’d sum up what we did at our very LAST pre-writing session (I can’t believe November is so close!). We played a game called truth or fiction. Each participant got two 3×5 cards. On one card, they wrote a scene from their favorite book. On [...]

on 2007/10/19 by NewMexicoKid, [NaperWriMo]

Some of us in the Pledge-to-Publish had talked about hosting one or two jabber chatroom write-ins before NaNoWriMo officially begins November 1st. These might be the perfect warm-up for NaNo: imagine writing a short story in the brief timespan of a jabber write-in, a story that uses characters from your novel-to-come but that is set [...]