Author Archives: NewMexicoKid

Techniques of the Selling Writer

Dwight V. Swain is the author of Techniques of the Selling Writer, a remarkable book on novel writing in that it breaks down the novel into small, easily-understood and well-explained pieces. These pieces and their structure, if well applied, will lead to a gripping tale that is difficult to put down. Here is my mindmapped […]

October 31, 2008 – 6:38 am | By NewMexicoKid | Posted in Writing | Tagged , | Comments (0)

Notes from the novel prep workshop

Here we are with less than one week before the start of NaNoWriMo–is your novel preparation complete? While there are those who prefer to plunge into November without much if any preparation, I definitely fall into the camp of people who needs the structure and planning to be in place. Otherwise I find I spend […]

October 26, 2008 – 9:53 am | By NewMexicoKid | Posted in NaperWriMo | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

Come out tonight to Barnes and Noble

Our final October preparatory workshop is tonight at the downtown Naperville Barnes and Noble (up in the cafe in the second floor). Joe (Corrupted_Flame) and I will be hosting the event. What do we have planned? Well, I wish I could say we have everything planned to a T but the truth is that this […]

October 23, 2008 – 6:16 am | By NewMexicoKid | Posted in NaperWriMo | Comments (0)

More from the second prep session

I was at the “plot table” the whole session and from the reactions of the participants, I think our exercise was a great success. Here’s what we did (you can try this at home with some of your writing buddies; in fact, we can do some of it in our Illinois::Naperville forum, though online written […]

October 19, 2008 – 3:48 pm | By NewMexicoKid | Posted in NaperWriMo | Tagged , | Comments (0)

TribLocal story on NaNoWriMo

Patti Murphy is a reporter for www.triblocal.com, the online and locally distributed Tribune magazine (comes out on Thursdays). She attended our kick-off and wrote this story about NaNoWriMo and our chapter. Take a look. –Tim

October 12, 2008 – 2:06 pm | By NewMexicoKid | Posted in NaNoWriMo | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

Saturday’s kick-off

For the first time in our young NaNoWriMo region’s history (we were first a separate region in 2005), our NaNoWriMo kick-off is in October instead of November. It’s this Saturday (October 4th). We chose this date because there are invariably people who come to the kick-off who never have heard of NaNo before; and when […]

October 2, 2008 – 7:04 pm | By NewMexicoKid | Posted in NaperWriMo | Comments (0)

NaNoWriMo site down (10/1)

The NaNoWriMo site went down this morning. The staff wrote: In the wee hours of October 1, after running like a brave champion, one of our two database servers, Lekempti, had what looks to be a very grave hardware failure. Lekempti is off-line now, and is getting new android guts installed. In the meantime, we’re […]

October 1, 2008 – 5:48 pm | By NewMexicoKid | Posted in NaNoWriMo | Comments (0)