We have a fun NaNoWriMo planned for you this year with Sarah Kovac's Library Crawl.

Writing a novel can be a daunting experience--it is a complex, huge task. But if you ease into it like the traveler did in the Stone Soup story, you will find that it can be a manageable, rich experience that you can savor.

The brainchild of Sarah Kovacs (librarian at Carol Stream and sarahk06 on NaNoWriMo), the Library Crawl is intended to add a bit of fun to NaNoWriMo and encourage participants to visit each of the participating libraries in November, attending their write-in events.

Just attend the scheduled write-ins and be sure to pick up the library-specific index card from the write-in host. Each library card playfully shows a different ingredient for your novel stone soup--be sure to collect all of them!

We will be giving out free NaNoWriMo hipster PDAs (the 2014 version) at the Preparatory Workshops in October for you to use to store your cards. If any are available in November, we'll be glad to share them while supplies last. Otherwise, you will be able to download the file and print out your own.:-)

For more information, see naperwrimo.org/crawl

Thanks to everyone who braved the storm and came out. Kaden and I had a blast giving the workshop and it was terrific to see all the pent-up creative energy in the room.

The slides are at http://naperwrimo.org/wiki/index.php?title=Preparatory_Workshop_-_Tim_Yao_and_Kaden_Patrick_-_2014-10-02#Presentation

(there is a bug breaking links in posts right now, so I am giving you the full URL)

Looking forward to seeing folks at workshop #2 this Saturday (Frank Dahlman's). See http://naperwrimo.org/wiki/index.php?title=Preparatory_Workshops#2014_Workshops (or naperwrimo.org/prep)

Both workshops were great! Thank you.