Author Archives: NewMexicoKid

Pre-NaNo Jabber Writing Sessions

The pre-NaNoWriMo jabber writing sessions will be Friday (October 26th), 8-9 pm and Saturday (October 27th), 8-9 pm. If you do not yet have a jabber account and would like to participate, please send me a NaNomail or e-mail. Since it will be before November 1st, we cannot write anything for our NaNo novels; however, […]

October 23, 2007 – 7:01 pm | By NewMexicoKid | Posted in NaperWriMo | Comments (2)

Prepare for NaNo by writing a story

Some of us in the Pledge-to-Publish had talked about hosting one or two jabber chatroom write-ins before NaNoWriMo officially begins November 1st. These might be the perfect warm-up for NaNo: imagine writing a short story in the brief timespan of a jabber write-in, a story that uses characters from your novel-to-come but that is set […]

October 19, 2007 – 8:05 pm | By NewMexicoKid | Posted in NaperWriMo | Comments (1)

Progress in novel planning

I think I am finally achieving a critical mass of novel planning this year. How can I tell? As I was driving home from work today, two of my characters began to interact with each other. I felt very much like the audience at a play (mind you, I was still paying attention to driving […]

October 15, 2007 – 7:59 pm | By NewMexicoKid | Posted in NaNoWriMo | Comments (1)

Liquid Story Binder Free TODAY ONLY

It was posted just today that giveawayoftheday.com is giving away free copies of Liquid Story Binder XE that normally costs ~$50 to activate. This is novel-writing software. I haven’t tried it yet, but it looks like it has some nice features. NOTE: You must download and install it TODAY (14 October 2007) to get the […]

October 14, 2007 – 9:33 am | By NewMexicoKid | Posted in Writing | Comments (1)

Local forums installed for relief!

Having withdrawal symptoms from the still oh-so-slow NaNoWriMo forums? Feel free to register with our local forums. Introduce yourself and tell us about your novel planning. –NMK

October 8, 2007 – 7:33 pm | By NewMexicoKid | Posted in NaperWriMo | Comments (0)

While the nanowrimo site is slow

You may have noticed the nanowrimo site has been really slow since its reopening with a Drupal base. Russ (firebus) is working very hard to resolve all of the problems with the site, but what should you do if the site is inaccessible or unusable? Here are some thoughts… Visit our new local forums. You’ll […]

October 7, 2007 – 9:24 pm | By NewMexicoKid | Posted in NaNoWriMo | Comments (0)

29 days to NaNoWriMo’s start!

Although the NaNoWriMo site is a bit slow right now due to the heavy traffic of thousands of returning ‘WriMos, its debut is a sign that the NaNoWriMo season is underway! Only 29 days remain before the official kick-off. Are you prepared? The three workshops we’ve planned (led by Meredith/tinygreyhound) will definitely help attendees answer […]

October 2, 2007 – 7:58 pm | By NewMexicoKid | Posted in NaNoWriMo | Comments (0)