NaperWriMo Blog

Thanks to all the WriMo’s (Daniel, Bob and Bob’s wife (argh, I’m so bad with names–was it Tracy?)) who stopped by our table at the front of Anderson’s Bookshop in Naperville on Saturday (October 3rd). Many thanks to Lloyd (Grayraven) who did an incredible job reaching out to the customers and Barb (babsy55) who set […]

We have a new cafepress shop to help fund our local events: Pictured here is a $19.99 travel mug; there are also t-shirts galore, buttons and other items. Be sure to visit our overview shop that has links to our other cafepress stores.

Happy New Year! I’m finally getting around to some of the tasks that I had left over from the oh-so-brief post-NaNo days. The first one is to make available pictures from the TGIO (thanks, Barry, for taking the pictures (though next time I should probably set the ISO of the camera higher)). 081213_nano_TGIO We also […]

And so yet another NaNoWriMo ends fairly successfully for Illinois::Naperville. Over fifty percent (54.7% to be exact) of our active writers successfully completed NaNoWriMo! Kudos to you all! Coming up on Saturday, December 13th is our famous pot-luck Thank-Goodness-It’s-Over Party (TGIO); we hope to have a good turn-out for that. Come join us whether you […]

Pictures are now available from the first ever Illinois All-State Write-In, November 22, 2008. The brainchild of Chicago ML TimSimms, the event was hosted by the Illinois::Naperville region at the Warrenville City Hall. 08112_all_state_writein As Katherine noted, the event was lots of fun. I believe that we had close to 40 people in attendance. My […]

Well, a average wordcount regional word war with Europe::France (here is the great challenge thread in their forum from our own FinbarrMcG). The terms are the same as they were the last two years: the losing region must sing the winning region’s song. Here is our wordwar graph (click through to go to the wordwar […]