Yearly Archives: 2008

Next up: Thank-Goodness-It’s-Over! Party

And so yet another NaNoWriMo ends fairly successfully for Illinois::Naperville. Over fifty percent (54.7% to be exact) of our active writers successfully completed NaNoWriMo! Kudos to you all! Coming up on Saturday, December 13th is our famous pot-luck Thank-Goodness-It’s-Over Party (TGIO); we hope to have a good turn-out for that. Come join us whether you […]

December 3, 2008 – 11:03 pm | By NewMexicoKid | Posted in NaperWriMo | Comments (0)

Pictures from our write-ins!

Pictures are now available from the first ever Illinois All-State Write-In, November 22, 2008. The brainchild of Chicago ML TimSimms, the event was hosted by the Illinois::Naperville region at the Warrenville City Hall. 08112_all_state_writein As Katherine noted, the event was lots of fun. I believe that we had close to 40 people in attendance. My […]

November 25, 2008 – 4:20 pm | By NewMexicoKid | Posted in NaperWriMo | Comments (0)

Writing, writing, writing

I was going to start this by talking about plugging away at your novel, but, hey, why plug, or plod, when you can skate, fly, sprint, race, throw yourself willy-nilly into the flowing rapids! In other words, continue to have fun. Speaking of fun, the all-Illinois write-in on Saturday was great! During the first word […]

November 23, 2008 – 8:23 am | By KatherineWriting | Posted in NaperWriMo | Comments (0)

Naperville is at war!

Well, a average wordcount regional word war with Europe::France (here is the great challenge thread in their forum from our own FinbarrMcG). The terms are the same as they were the last two years: the losing region must sing the winning region’s song. Here is our wordwar graph (click through to go to the wordwar […]

November 8, 2008 – 9:14 am | By NewMexicoKid | Posted in NaperWriMo | Comments (0)

When to Write

If possible, and it isn’t always, try to write in your optimal time. In my case, that’s first thing in the morning. Luckily, I can shift my hours around and start work around 9 or 10 on most days. I plan on doing that. I also can get up at 5 in the morning and […]

November 5, 2008 – 5:56 pm | By KatherineWriting | Posted in Writing | Comments (0)

Pictures from the 11/1 write-in

Pictures are now available from the November 1st write-in at Warrenville. Thanks very much to Katherine for arranging this great space (note to the wise: bring a cushion with you if you want to sit up on the Council seats–the chairs are comfy but a little low for the desk; there are also normal tables […]

November 2, 2008 – 10:39 am | By NewMexicoKid | Posted in NaperWriMo | Tagged | Comments (0)

Write Ins, Word Wars, and Word Count

The Warrenville City Hall was the site of our first write-in–on November 1st from 1-4. If you didn’t make it this week, there’s another one next week–and it’s a great site (to the surprise of some) with WiFi, comfortable chairs and lots of space. There are also write-ins on Sundays at the 95th library from […]

November 1, 2008 – 4:35 pm | By KatherineWriting | Posted in NaperWriMo | Comments (0)