Author Archives: NewMexicoKid

Prep workshop #4: Engaging your readers

First year co-Municipal Liaison Frank Dahlman gave a stirring and insight-filled preparatory workshop Saturday, 19 October at the Community Room of the Nichols Library in Naperville. After opening with a cute story about his daughter’s first soccer goal, Frank leapt into the importance of engaging our readers and began a tour of many ways we […]

October 22, 2013 – 6:19 pm | By NewMexicoKid | Posted in NaperWriMo, Writing | Tagged , , , , | Comments (0)

Prep workshop #3: all about structure and plot

Roger Lubeck, Ph.D., author, editor and member of the Journey, gave an information-rich presentation on story structure and plot at the 95th Street Library in Naperville. Detailed notes are available from the workshop. Roger covered the well known novel story structures, different plot types, a discussion on handling point of view, advice on outlining, and […]

October 15, 2013 – 7:59 pm | By NewMexicoKid | Posted in NaperWriMo, Writing | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (0)

Katherine Lato shows how Characters are Story

Author Katherine Lato (aka KatherineWriting) led participants through her preparatory workshop Characters are story. This informative workshop delved into many aspects of characters: how to make them feel real to the reader, how to keep them interesting, how best to work them into scenes, how to handle their back story, etc. There were plenty of […]

October 5, 2013 – 9:04 pm | By NewMexicoKid | Posted in NaNoWriMo, NaperWriMo, Writing | Tagged , , , , | Comments (0)

Hit the ground writing!

Relax, sit back, enjoy. Think about the type of writing that first excited you. Think that you’re writing that fiction. You’re writing at your most creative, most powerful. In the most successful and imaginative and lyrical way you can. Out there is a public that is urging you to finish your novel so it can […]

September 28, 2013 – 10:21 pm | By NewMexicoKid | Posted in NaNoWriMo, NaperWriMo | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

Preparatory workshops coming up in September and October!

Have you ever wanted to write your own novel? Maybe you’ve heard of National Novel Writing Month (aka NaNoWriMo), the free, annual challenge that takes place every November, where writers and would-be novelists strive to start, write and complete their 50,000+ word novel in just 30 days. Last year over three hundred and forty thousand […]

August 25, 2013 – 10:59 am | By NewMexicoKid | Posted in NaNoWriMo, NaperWriMo | Tagged , , , | Comments (0)

Write your novel… with a brand new t-shirt!

I just created a new t-shirt design for our NaperWriMo shops on cafepress that help fund our local activities: this design features my stuffed animal puppy Brownie happily typing away again near dear Ol’ Naperville as she works upon her novel on a typewriter:

July 20, 2013 – 6:42 pm | By NewMexicoKid | Posted in NaperWriMo | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

Site redesigned!

After some years, I finally took a step forward in redesigning the NaperWriMo site (naperwrimo.org home, blog and wiki), using the Erudite theme from the Unified Republic of Stars that works for both mediawiki and wordpress. I hope that this will help the readability and ease-of-navigation for our site. If you have any suggestions for […]

July 6, 2013 – 8:47 am | By NewMexicoKid | Posted in NaperWriMo | Tagged , , | Comments (0)