October 2007

on 2007/10/15 by NewMexicoKid, [NaNoWriMo]

I think I am finally achieving a critical mass of novel planning this year. How can I tell? As I was driving home from work today, two of my characters began to interact with each other. I felt very much like the audience at a play (mind you, I was still paying attention to driving [...]

on 2007/10/14 by NewMexicoKid, [Writing]

It was posted just today that giveawayoftheday.com is giving away free copies of Liquid Story Binder XE that normally costs ~$50 to activate. This is novel-writing software. I haven’t tried it yet, but it looks like it has some nice features. NOTE: You must download and install it TODAY (14 October 2007) to get the [...]

on 2007/10/10 by tinygreyhound, [NaNoWriMo,NaperWriMo,Writing]

Pre-Pre-Planning Exercise: There were a number of us last night who were more than 15 minutes early, so our ever-diligent ML Tim gave us notebooks and had us write a one page impromptu short story starting with the line: If it hadn’t happened to me, I would never have believed it. We then shared them [...]

on 2007/10/08 by NewMexicoKid, [NaperWriMo]

Having withdrawal symptoms from the still oh-so-slow NaNoWriMo forums? Feel free to register with our local forums. Introduce yourself and tell us about your novel planning. –NMK

on 2007/10/08 by tinygreyhound, [NaperWriMo]

I just wanted to thank everyone who came out last night for this Pre-writing session. We had about 16 people, a good mix of the old-timers and the newbies. I thought I’d post what we did, in case any of it interests you. Our focus was on doing some brainstorming in general to warm up [...]