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== Regional IRC Chatroom == | == Regional IRC Chatroom == | ||
Welcome to the MediaWiki instance supporting the Illinois::Naperville region (representing the cities and suburbs west of Chicago) of the National Novel Writing Month contest that is held every November. Feel free to look around and help edit pages on this wiki. See these instructions on MediaWiki markup and these help instructions. Visit our blog for the latest news and helpful articles or our NaNoWriMo regional forum. We also have a cafepress shop that helps offset our local expenses.
Important disclaimer: Although this is the official website for the Illinois::Naperville region of NaNoWriMo, this website is managed by the West Suburban Writers, not NaNoWriMo.
NaNoWriMo provides the international organization, structure and online forums but relies on local (regional) organizations for the face-to-face support and local events (preparatory events and write-ins) that really enrich the whole NaNoWriMo experience. NaperWriMo is what we call our local extension to NaNoWriMo. We (the West Suburban Writers) regionally represent the cities and suburbs west of Chicago. Do visit our calendar of events (most events are October-December).
We're a fun group that even has our own regional songs, which have figured into our friendly wagers with other NaNoWriMo regions over total regional wordcount.
See the official explanation and our local Frequently Asked Questions list/press release. In brief, NaNoWriMo is the National Novel Writing Month contest that is intended to help people write and complete their own 50,000+ word novel in the 30 days of November each year. What is the prize? A sense of completion and a handsome PDF file certificate. CreateSpace each of the past few years has, as a promotion, given each NaNoWriMo winner a paperback copy of their completed book. NaNoWriMo works because of the enthusiasm, energy and supportive spirit of the participants, which is expressed in the NaNoWriMo forums and in live regional events like the ones hosted by Illinois::Naperville.
These are links to online references useful to writers.
For the calendar and latest event information, see naperwrimo.org/events.
Note: Illinois::Naperville has existed as a separate region since 2005; for more information, see Region history
Janna (aka karalianne), ML of Canada :: Saskatchewan :: Saskatoon, provides IRC-based chat rooms for all of the NaNoWriMo regions. Historically, Naperville has used an XMPP (Jabber) based chat room (as provided by Dreamhost); unfortunately, there do not appear to be any good jabber clients for Chromebooks (and the jabber server provided by Dreamhost is very old and does not support http-binding, so we can't utilize modern javascript clients like converse.js or ajaxber). Because of this, as of 2014-10-19, we are deprecating the jabber chatroom and are instead moving to the Chat NaNo service provided by Janna.
If you used the chat rooms last year you should go to the login page. New users need to register first.
To register, go to this URL: http://chatnano.net/IrcUsers/register_wrimo
Once you are registered you ALWAYS login at http://chatnano.net/IrcUsers/login
Put in the Nick and password you registered with.
This is probably the better path to take--dedicated clients usually perform better than web clients and have more features. pidgin is a very good multi-platform client. Byrd IRC client for Google Chrome might work well for Chromebooks.
If you prefer a client to Mibbit, you need to point your client at irc.kydance.net, port 6667, and login using the name you registered at the first URL given. If you are logging in using a client, you will need to enter your password when you do so. The command for this is /ns identify PASSWORD where you change PASSWORD to your actual password that you registered with.
With pidgin, it is possible to automate this step:
IMPORTANT: Note that you do not include '/msg nickname' as part of the message in the pounce.
Any problems with the process should be directed to chatnano.registrar@gmail.com. Please include Nick, password, region, and chat room name in the e-mail.
If you don't want to be distracted during word wars, you might like to hang out in the bottom three rooms in this list. They're all about the writing!
#nanowrimo #distractionsprints #malswarroom #nanowordsprints
Also, if you're curious about other regions' channels, have a look at the list on this page: http://chatnano.net/IrcUsers/regions
To join a room, log into the chat and then type /join #CHANNEL where you change CHANNEL to the name of the room.
There is a wordwar bot called Timmy. Here are the wordwar commands: Since it has been requested: is all of Timmy's commands.
Introduced in 2006
information about the Jabber chat room(s) -- this is a great resource for quick, online word wars and support in November, especially for those who are unable to make it to the Sunday write-ins.
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