Category Archives: NaperWriMo

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)

A neat thank you note

Writer and NaNoWriMo participant Ada Vaughan cc’d me on a nice thank you note to NaNoWriMo. I’d like to pass this along to our great NaperWriMo community. She wrote: Dear NaNoWriMo Folks, I guess you probably get hundreds of letters like this from Wrimos all over the world. So my voice will add to the […]

April 9, 2013 – 7:56 pm | By NewMexicoKid | Posted in NaperWriMo | Tagged , | Comments (0)

Pictures from the alternate TGIO

Katherine (KatherineWriting) organized a fun-filled and delicious alternate TGIO for those unable to make it on Saturday. Here are photos from the event: 121213 – Alternate TGIO dinner Several prizes were awarded, including an old NaNo poster, a signed mini poster, and two nanobots.

December 19, 2012 – 11:57 pm | By NewMexicoKid | Posted in NaperWriMo | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

2012 TGIO a fun event

So our 2012 NaNoWriMo experience is at an end. “It’s Over!” We had over 35 people come to the TGIO (not sure of the exact numbers because not everyone signed in and some folks came by late). Dave started us off with the fun “Books in Common” ice-breaker, which Sabrina (bookgrrl) won by having the […]

December 9, 2012 – 11:07 am | By NewMexicoKid | Posted in NaperWriMo | Tagged , | Comments (0)

Final region stats plus what you should consider doing now

Congratulations First, congratulations to all those in our region who won. KatherineWriting (201228), The Peddler of Dreams (125713) and WritingStudent (122222) finished with the top three wordcounts in our region’s wordcount graph. The other winners from our region’s wordcount graph: KatherineWriting, The Peddler of Dreams, WritingStudent, writertodd07, mongrelvw, TRRDEDEAN, Larry72367, waking521, Asreena, sepiahistory, David L […]

December 3, 2012 – 12:32 pm | By NewMexicoKid | Posted in NaNoWriMo, NaperWriMo | Tagged | Comments (0)

Final 95th Street Library write-in successful (11/25/2012)

Congratulations, Typesetjez, for winning the “regular season” nanoborg! We had thirteen people at the final write-in at the 95th Street Library. Several nanobots were awarded, including the nanoborg: The average words written during the write-in: 3500+ (even though Joe and Lisa were both writing by hand! and Lisa (TogetherAgain) wrote 1005 words in a 37 […]

November 25, 2012 – 8:04 pm | By NewMexicoKid | Posted in NaperWriMo | Tagged , | Comments (0)