Author Archives: NewMexicoKid

May 22nd outing (the Journey)

Just a reminder that members of the Journey that we have an outing scheduled for the early afternoon of May 22 at beautiful Herrick lake. You can RSVP on the Current events page (Password protected).

May 3, 2010 – 9:38 pm | By NewMexicoKid | Posted in The Journey | Tagged , , , | Comments (0)

NaperWriMo website updated!

It was a lot of work, but I’ve finally brought some unity and thematic balance to the NaperWriMo websites. It’s not perfect, but I’ve collected the miscellaneous pages under the naperwrimo.org home while moving the blog down to naperwrimo.org/wp and keeping the wiki at naperwrimo.org/wiki. There are only a handful of available skins/themes that are […]

April 30, 2010 – 7:23 pm | By NewMexicoKid | Posted in NaperWriMo | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

2010 NaNoWriMo event dates – an update

We have some confirmation from the Naperville Public Library that our requested dates will be ok for the fall of this year (2010); here is our current event schedule: 1-3 pm, Oct 2: prep session (Nichols Library) 1-3 pm, Oct 9: prep session (Crystal Blount hosting at the Aurora Public Library) 1-3 pm, Oct 16: […]

April 20, 2010 – 3:49 pm | By NewMexicoKid | Posted in NaperWriMo | Tagged , , , , | Comments (0)

Update on the Journey

We have twenty three members (there are more than that on the e-mail list but these are the folks who have added themselves to the members list on the wiki). There are three major projects for the Journey: Anthology 1: an anthology of short stories based on a common first line (16 participants) Anthology 2: […]

January 26, 2010 – 6:58 am | By NewMexicoKid | Posted in The Journey | Tagged , | Comments (0)

And Belgium and Holland pay off their bet…!

Today I received this wonderful e-mail from Arike, one of the MLs for Belgium and Holland: Dear Tim, other MLs and participants of Naperville, First off, a very happy new year to you! We hope you’ve a had some good holidays, family time and rest, and we wish you the very best for 2010. Once […]

January 3, 2010 – 8:07 am | By NewMexicoKid | Posted in NaperWriMo | Comments (0)

TGIO 2009

We had nearly 50 people attending this year’s fun TGIO (Thank-Goodness-It’s-Over!) party at the Naperville Municipal Center lunch room. Things mostly went very smoothly, though I forgot to give out a prize for best colored-in Dragon Map (doh! I even brought one…). David got us going with a NaNo-bingo (with custom squares and different sheets) […]

December 6, 2009 – 10:33 pm | By NewMexicoKid | Posted in NaperWriMo | Tagged , | Comments (0)

A funny cartoon from HannahK

HannahK, a talented and winning wrimo from Holland, has been writing brilliant little cartoons all month long. Today she posted this gem: 😉 ———- Nu ook Dutch NaNo Team 2009 merchandise!! Very funny (even if we don’t wear nappy’s in Naperville)! –NMK

December 3, 2009 – 6:44 am | By NewMexicoKid | Posted in NaNoWriMo, NaperWriMo | Tagged , , | Comments (0)