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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?

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.

What is NaNoWriMo?

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.

NaNoWriMo How-to Guides and Lists

• How do I participate?
• How to ensure you have set your Home region on NaNoWriMo
• a NaNoWriMo website wishlist
• 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.