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Woodridge and IPPL write-ins on Saturday, 2015-11-21

Here are some photos from some of Saturday’s write-ins: [shashin type=”album” id=”15″ size=”medium” crop=”n” columns=”max” caption=”y” order=”date” position=”center”]

November 22, 2015 – 8:52 am | By NewMexicoKid | Posted in NaNoWriMo, NaperWriMo | Tagged , , , | Comments (0)

New batch of plot critters for the Nichols write-ins

After a very nice writing day (5833 words) yesterday, I took a break and made a fresh batch of plot critters for today’s write-in: [shashin type=”photo” id=”356,343,355,354,353,348,347,346,345,352,351,350,349,344″ size=”medium” columns=”max” order=”user” position=”center”]

November 22, 2015 – 8:48 am | By NewMexicoKid | Posted in NaperWriMo | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

All day write-in, mid-month meet-up and the Nichols Library write-in (Nov 15)

A busy week for NaNoWriMo! Friday was our second annual all-day write-in, organized by our own Katherine Lato (KatherineWriting), former co-ML for the region. The event was very well attended across the day and we had a nice surprise visit from Councilwoman Judy Brodhead, who had just dropped off checks from her and from Councilwoman […]

November 15, 2015 – 7:43 pm | By NewMexicoKid | Posted in NaNoWriMo, NaperWriMo | Tagged , , , | Comments (0)

Second weekend of write-ins

So here we are at the second weekend of NaNoWriMo 2015. I managed to attend three write-ins: Woodridge (hosted by Cee-Bee), Warrenville (hosted by jen.e.moore) and my own hosted write-in at Nichols Library in Naperville. [shashin type=”album” id=”9,10″ size=”medium” crop=”n” columns=”max” caption=”y” order=”date” position=”center”] Many thanks to Ed for bringing donuts to Woodridge and delicious […]

November 8, 2015 – 7:37 pm | By NewMexicoKid | Posted in NaNoWriMo | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (0)

Good first write-in at Nichols Library in Naperville

Great first write-in! We had 17 people total; most were on our naperwrimo.org/wordcount spreadsheet: Attendees averaged over 3000 words in the three hours.

November 1, 2015 – 7:32 pm | By NewMexicoKid | Posted in NaNoWriMo | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

A fun and filling kick-off pot luck lunch party

Saturday, October 24th saw some forty-something people attend our fun and filing pot luck lunch party to kick-off National Novel Writing Month. Since we still have some days before November 1st, there were some activities to talk about success strategies. [shashin type=”album” id=”8″ size=”small” crop=”n” columns=”max” caption=”y” order=”date” position=”center”] With many thanks to Kat Stepp […]

October 28, 2015 – 6:15 pm | By NewMexicoKid | Posted in NaperWriMo | Tagged , | Comments (0)

Final prep workshop: Characterology 101

[shashin type=”album” id=”7″ size=”small” crop=”n” columns=”max” caption=”y” order=”date” position=”center”] Saturday, October 17th was the fourth and final prep workshop for our region. Kat Stepp (aka Kat’s Meow) delivered the presentation that she and Todd Hogan (aka writertodd07) had created together. Twenty three people took part in the workshop; four came in costume as a character: […]

October 19, 2015 – 8:08 pm | By NewMexicoKid | Posted in NaNoWriMo, NaperWriMo | Tagged , | Comments (0)