2012 Events
Summary of 2012 Events
Location: see location maps
| Date | Time | Location | Event | Description | Organizer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Most Sundays | 5:30 pm - ?? | Caribou in Downer's Grove (5100 Main St Downers Grove) | Get-together | Bring your laptop and come work on your novel, or just talk. Details in this thread | Becky, Joe, Victoria - others welcome |
| Most Mondays | 7 - 8:00 pm | Online (via Gmail IM) | Virtual Focus on Editing Novels. | Share opening paragraphs of your novel, get feedback, revise, share again. | KatherineWriting, Larkk |
| Tuesdays | 9:30-11 am | Caribou in Naperville (near Dominick's) (1523 North Aurora Road # 107) | Focus on Editing Novels. | Bring your laptop or a printout of the first few paragraphs of two or three chapters and come work on novel editing. | KatherineWriting, Mary Ellen, Amy |
| Thursdays | 7:45-9:00 pm (and beyond) | In our Naperville jabber chatroom | Virtual get-together (most weeks) | Chit-chat from 7:45-8 pm; meeting from 8-9 pm; NaNoMail NewMexicoKid if you want an account | Tim Yao (NewMexicoKid) and others |
| 9/15/2012 (Saturday) | 11:45 am - 3 pm | Naperville Municipal Center, Meeting room A | The Journey | This bring-your-own-lunch event may be to wrap up Journey activities or start preparing for NaNoWriMo | Tim Yao (NewMexicoKid) |
| 10/27/2012 (Saturday) | 11:45 am - 3 pm | Naperville Municipal Center, Meeting rooms BC | Kick-off pot-luck lunch | Come celebrate the start of National Novel Writing Month! | Tim Yao (NewMexicoKid) |
| 12/8/2012 (Saturday) | 11:45 am - 3 pm | Naperville Municipal Center, Meeting rooms BC | TGIO pot-luck lunch | Thank Goodness It's Over! Come celebrate the end of National Novel Writing Month! | Tim Yao (NewMexicoKid) |
See the notes and slides from our three October prep sessions
Jabber events
Send NaNoMail to NewMexicoKid and request your jabber account to join in on the jabber chatroom write-ins.
2012 Planning
- Sept. 15 - 11:45 - 2:30 pm - Meeting Room A -- NaNoWriMo Prep Session
- Oct. 27 - 11:45 - 3:00 pm - Meeting Rooms BC NaNoWriMo (kick-off)
- Dec. 8 - 11:45 - 3:00 pm - Meeting Rooms BC (TGIO)
Prep sessions
- Oct. 6 at the Nichols Library in the Community Room
- Oct. 13 at the 95th Street Library in Meeting Room A (Tom Ostler presenting)
- Oct. 20 at the Nichols Library in the Community Room (Roger Lubeck presenting)
Write-Ins
- Nov. 1 (Thursday) 3-8 pm at Caribou in Naperville (near Dominick's) (1523 North Aurora Road # 107)
- Nov. 3 & Nov 17th, (Saturdays) 1:30 to 4:30 pm at the Woodridge Library
- Nov. 4 & Nov. 18 (Sundays) 1:30 to 4:30 pm at the Nichols Library in the Community Room
- Nov. 6 & Nov. 13 & Nov 20 & Nov 27 (Tuesdays) 9:30 - 11:30 am at Caribou in Naperville (near Dominick's) (1523 North Aurora Road # 107)
- Nov. 11 & Nov. 25 (Sundays) 1:30 to 4:30 pm at the 95th Street Library in Meeting Room C
