NaperWriMo Wiki

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NaperWriMo

Welcome to the MediaWiki instance supporting the cities and suburbs west of Chicago). 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: this website is managed by the West Suburban Writers, not NaNoWriMo.

What is NaperWriMo?

Originally created to be a local partner to NaNoWriMo that provided the international organization, structure and online forums but relied 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 regionally represents 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 regions over total regional wordcount.

What is Novel Quest?

Novel Quest is a free, annual, motivational challenge to writers to complete their novel writing or editing goal (e.g., 50,000 words or 50 hours of editing or some combination of the two) during the thirty days in November. There are regional in-person, virtual, and hybrid events to help participants stay motivated while having fun in the process.

Our primary community for this Illinois Novel Quest is within the suburbs of Chicago; however, we host most events in hybrid fashion.

With our community, we offer participants: free preparatory workshops (both in person and via a free online stream) to better understand the craft of writing, a community to support and encourage writers working towards their goals, and dedicated writing time (offered in person by volunteers and on Zoom, YouTube, Twitch, and Discord!).

Novel Quest can be built your way, done at your pace, so that you can make it your personal quest to complete.

Novel Quest How-to Guides and Lists

• How do I participate?
• Pomegranate's Guide for Hosting Write-Ins
• What to do the rest of the year?

Things Useful To Writers

These are links to online references useful to writers.

Local lists

• Online NaNoWriMo Resources - added 2020-10-31
• Preparatory Workshops
• useful references for writers
• Vim for Writers - how to most effectively use the ViM modal text editor for novel planning and writing
• Book Recommendations
• software for writers and Planning software
• Guide for Hosting Write-Ins - 2015-09-16
• plot emergency twists
• Use of emotional response
• Thoughts on a better noveling tool (based on Papel)
• Notes on Editing -- from the DucKon 19 Editing Workshop led by Tom Lee
• Writer's Die -- a handy, dandy tool for writers who have a d10 or d20
• Finding your writer's voice
• Backup Solutions for your Novel

Other lists, sites and articles

• Samma Jaye's Writer's Quick List - compendium of useful links for writers
• writer's resources (alden.nu)
• Truck Poetry's NaNo Tools
• NaNoWriMo helpful resources from National Novel Finishing Month
• NaNo Tools
• Behind The Name random name generator recommended by [.Ka.Destiny.]
  • You can use it for last names too! (thanks to eb87
• Kathy's NaNo Rewards - motivational aids for NaNoWriMo

Illinois::Naperville Events and Resources

For the calendar and latest event information, see naperwrimo.org/events.

History

2013 NaperWriMo

• 2013 Events

2012 NaperWriMo

• 2012 Events

2011 NaperWriMo

• 2011 Events

2010 NaperWriMo

• Pictures from the 2010 TGIO
• 2010 word war with Calgary
• 2010 NaperWriMo scanpost graphs
• 2010 Naperville graph (whole region)
• 2010 Events
• 2010 Flyers

Note: Illinois::Naperville has existed as a separate region since 2005; for more information, see Region history

Regional Slack Chatroom

In 2016, Naperville is trying out a Slack chatroom (see naperwrimo.slack.com). To get access, enter your e-mail address on this page. You will receive your account credentials through e-mail and be able to join the room.

Slack has an advantage over IRC in that there is contextual history preserved for the room, so that people can interact with each other asynchronously (where in IRC you might miss a person by seconds and never know that they had been there at all).

To run a word war, you can go to the #wordwars slack channel and run a command like this: /remind @here Stop writing :hamster: :hamster: :hamster: :broken_heart: :broken_heart: :bangbang: :bangbang: !!! in 17 minutes

Note that for privacy reasons, people's e-mail addresses are not displayed in their slack profiles (this is a slack channel configuration option we've decided to do).

Regional IRC Chatroom

See Regional IRC Chatroom since we are now using the slack chatroom.