About me

I'm Tim Yao, aka NewMexicoKid, a long-time writing community guide for the Illinois::Naperville region and founding member of the Journey, our year-round writing group that has published its own short story anthologies.

NaperWriMo

NaperWriMo represents the Naperville region that covers the cities and suburbs west of Chicago for the November novel writing contest.

NaperWriMo home, blog, wiki, and shop.

We currently participate in Illinois Novel Quest each November. Novel Quest is a NaNo-styled writing challenge based on the Writing Quests framework.

Resources

• Use of emotional response
• Writing Resources
• ViM for Writers - Advice and helpful links for those using the powerful ViM modal text editor in their writing

Tools

• NaNo Faces (archive of communal wordcount graphs)
• Fog Readability Analysis tool - point this tool at your ASCII text document to get the readability index

Goodies

• Idea Rings
• WriMoRocks
• NaNoWriMo hipster PDA - I introduced the the NaNo hipster PDA to the ML community in 2005.

Older Tools

• List of titles archived from the Titles Adoption Thread on the old nanowrimo.org site.
• wordcount graphing tool (archive from 2010)