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		<title>Next up: Thank-Goodness-It&#8217;s-Over! Party</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;s-Over Party (TGIO); we hope to have a good turn-out for that. Come join us whether you won, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://naperwrimo.org/2008/12/03/next-up-thank-goodness-its-over-party/</link>
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		<title>Pictures from our write-ins!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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.





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As Katherine noted, the event was lots of fun. I believe that we had close to 40 people in attendance. My daughter Kristiana [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Writing, writing, writing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 war, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://naperwrimo.org/2008/11/23/writing-writing-writing/</link>
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		<title>Naperville is at war!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;s song.
Here is our wordwar graph (click through to go to the wordwar page):

We [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://naperwrimo.org/2008/11/08/naperville-is-at-war/</link>
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		<title>When to Write</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If possible, and it isn&#8217;t always, try to write in your optimal time. In my case, that&#8217;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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pictures from the 11/1 write-in</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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&#8211;the chairs are comfy but a little low for the desk; there are also normal tables [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Write Ins, Word Wars, and Word Count</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Warrenville City Hall was the site of our first write-in&#8211;on November 1st from 1-4.
If you didn&#8217;t make it this week, there&#8217;s another one next week&#8211;and it&#8217;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 1-4.
Join us [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://naperwrimo.org/2008/11/01/write-ins-word-wars-and-word-count/</link>
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		<title>Techniques of the Selling Writer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dwight V. Swain is the author of Techniques of the Selling Writer, a remarkable book on novel writing in that it breaks down the novel into small, easily-understood and well-explained pieces. These pieces and their structure, if well applied, will lead to a gripping tale that is difficult to put down.
Here is my mindmapped notes [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://naperwrimo.org/2008/10/31/techniques-of-the-selling-writer/</link>
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		<title>Just in Case</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In case you&#8217;re chomping at the bit for November 1 (or even if you&#8217;re a tiny bit scared that it&#8217;s almost here).
I was trying to get ahead on critiquing in an online forum that I belong to and came across  a neat template for examing a piece of writing that might provide people another way [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://naperwrimo.org/2008/10/30/just-in-case/</link>
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		<title>Notes from the novel prep workshop</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here we are with less than one week before the start of NaNoWriMo&#8211;is your novel preparation complete? While there are those who prefer to plunge into November without much if any preparation, I definitely fall into the camp of people who needs the structure and planning to be in place. Otherwise I find I spend [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://naperwrimo.org/2008/10/26/notes-from-the-novel-prep-workshop/</link>
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