Yearly Archives: 2009

Kick-off is today! Write-in tomorrow!

Just a really quick note–the kick-off is just a couple hours away! I’m really excited, though a part of me knows I still have to finish my novel outline today…! A note on tomorrow’s write-in: due to a scheduling snafu at the Naperville Public Library, we won’t be in room A–we’ll be in the Children’s […]

October 31, 2009 – 8:49 am | By NewMexicoKid | Posted in NaNoWriMo, NaperWriMo | Tagged , , , | Comments (0)

BERaven writes about the Pledge

Bonnie Jean Adams, our very own BERaven who co-ML’d the Naperville region in 2005 and who represented us before we even were a separate region, had earlier interviewed Katherine, Mike (aka horatio) and me about the 2009 Pledge and our short story anthology Infinite Monkeys (coming soon to an amazon.com near you). Check out Bonnie […]

October 28, 2009 – 5:12 am | By NewMexicoKid | Posted in Miscellaneous | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

Pictures from the 2nd Prep Session

Saturday, Oct 24th was the second and final preparatory session, this one generously hosted by Barb (babsy55) and Lloyd (Grayraven). They focused on character definition and development. We had 31 people in attendance at the Naperville 95th Street Library; attendees were given various useful handouts, including the 100 Best First Lines of Novels as chosen […]

October 25, 2009 – 12:25 pm | By NewMexicoKid | Posted in NaperWriMo | Comments (0)

A Shout Out to the Screaming Pens!

Friday morning, I visited Mrs. Goodman’s writers, the Screaming Pens at Kennedy Junior High School. We discussed NaNoWriMo; I learned that three of them had already written novels and one of them was a previous NaNoWriMo winner in the Naperville region. Unfortunately, the school bus schedule cut into the time we had together, so we […]

October 24, 2009 – 9:59 pm | By NewMexicoKid | Posted in NaNoWriMo, NaperWriMo | Comments (0)

National Day on Writing

October 20th was the National Day on Writing! Ack! I missed it. But it’s not too late to act on it; apparently the National Council of Teachers of English is collecting samples of writing through some time in 2010…

October 21, 2009 – 11:02 am | By NewMexicoKid | Posted in Writing | Tagged | Comments (0)

Jabber meeting tonight (Oct 19)!

Just a quick note: be sure to come to the jabber meeting tonight (Monday, Oct 19), 7:45 pm CDT. We’ll be doing some writing warm-up word-wars…

October 19, 2009 – 7:49 am | By NewMexicoKid | Posted in NaperWriMo | Tagged | Comments (0)

Oct 10 plot prep session recap

I’ve been meaning to write a post including my notes from the great first prep session that Dave (TRRDEDEAN) led; however, this past week was just filled with those pointy work and real life priorities that tend to trump NaNo for me. So I think I will just post the pictures from the first prep session and encourage folks to come out to the second one, which is 1-3 pm this coming Saturday (Oct 24th) at the 95th Street Library. Pictures after the jump…

October 18, 2009 – 9:39 pm | By NewMexicoKid | Posted in NaperWriMo | Comments (0)