Author Archives: NewMexicoKid

Weekend write-ins

A whole host of new plot critters await the winners of the word wars at write-ins on Saturday and Sunday this weekend (note: the squid is already promised to Squiddish, who charmed everyone at the kick-off with her great Halloween costume (Ragedy Ann). Don’t know what to bring to a write-in? We have a thread […]

November 4, 2011 – 6:58 am | By NewMexicoKid | Posted in NaNoWriMo, NaperWriMo | Tagged , | Comments (0)

Pictures and more from our fun kick-off!

We had about 35 NaNoWriMo participants attending (plus some non-participant guests) this fun kick-off party. There was a great spread of contributed food, including Catatone1’s special chocolates (the dark-chocolate chess pieces were delicious!): Roger Lubeck led a highly appreciated session about self-publishing. I unfortunately didn’t get to attend this because I was leading a parallel […]

October 30, 2011 – 4:47 pm | By NewMexicoKid | Posted in NaperWriMo | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

Notes from the final prep workshop

111022_nano_prep_session3 Saturday, October 22nd was the date of the third and final prep workshop for the 2011 NaNoWriMo. Led by Crystal Blount (dreamhigher11), this workshop focused on dialogue and the use of dialect. This is Crystal’s 3rd year entering the competition. Won once; gave up once. She teaches technical writing for a living. 30 people […]

October 23, 2011 – 5:56 pm | By NewMexicoKid | Posted in NaperWriMo | Tagged , , , | Comments (0)

NaNoWriMo Prep Session 2: What to avoid

111015_nano_workshop2 On Saturday, October 15th, Heather Jones aka AmaranthMuse led a workshop at the Nichols Library in Naperville before what may be the largest turnout we’ve had at an October workshop: 42 people attended (!). Nano_prep_guide_short_111020.pptx the presentation Heather used on Saturday Nano_preparation_guide_111020.pptx the long form of the presentation (extra pages) Here are my notes […]

October 17, 2011 – 7:22 pm | By NewMexicoKid | Posted in NaperWriMo | Tagged , , , , | Comments (0)

Good video covering pacing

Ran across this penny-arcade video about story pacing. Yes, it’s from a game design sense, but the same principles apply to novel writing.

October 16, 2011 – 11:27 am | By NewMexicoKid | Posted in Writing | Tagged , | Comments (0)

Join us in jabber chats!

We have a jabber chatroom for our region; people can use their gmail/google accounts to join (see instructions on how to do this). Otherwise, NaNoMail NewMexicoKid for a jabber account. We’ve been meeting at Thursdays at 8:00 PM CDT but will look to schedule some other times. Come for chat, interesting writerly discussions and writing […]

October 15, 2011 – 9:00 am | By NewMexicoKid | Posted in NaperWriMo | Tagged , | Comments (0)

Welcome to the new nanowrimo site

The new Ruby-on-Rails NaNoWriMo site is live! There are a number of nice new features, some features that need to be improved/attained/added, and a list of known issues and missing features. If you are a long-time user of the nanowrimo.org site, the missing features will be quite noticeable; please try to be patient. You can […]

October 11, 2011 – 10:33 am | By NewMexicoKid | Posted in NaNoWriMo | Tagged , | Comments (0)