Author Archives: NewMexicoKid

Windy City RWA preparatory workshop

On October 14th, Catherine Brennan and I presented our second NaNoWriMo preparatory workshop of this season, NaNoWriMo in a Nutshell (link goes to the powerpoint slides), to the Windy City chapter of the Romance Writers of America. [shashin type=”photo” id=”180″ size=”medium” columns=”max” order=”user” position=”center”] It was a lively session–the members of the Windy City RWA […]

October 16, 2015 – 7:49 pm | By NewMexicoKid | Posted in NaNoWriMo | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

NaNo Prep Workshop: Visualize Your Novel – 2015-10-10

Attendance 17 Photos: [shashin type=”album” id=”5″ size=”small” crop=”n” columns=”max” caption=”y” order=”date” position=”center”] Introduction Sam McAdams Have been NaNo’ing for ten years; first year as an ML National Novel Writing Month started by Chris Baty in 1999 Goal: 50,000+ words in 30 days (1667 words per day) Finish your story in the month if at all […]

October 10, 2015 – 5:54 pm | By NewMexicoKid | Posted in NaNoWriMo, NaperWriMo | Tagged , | Comments (0)

Powerpoint and pictures from the 2015-10-08 prep workshop: NaNoWriMo in a Nutshell

[shashin type=”album” id=”4″ size=”small” crop=”n” columns=”max” caption=”y” order=”date” position=”center”] Catherine Brennan and Tim Yao led this highly interactive workshop at the beautiful, new Santori Library (Aurora Public Library system), facilitated by Cassie. Ref: Powerpoint slides This interactive workshop covered many topics, including: why you might want to write your novel in November how you can […]

October 10, 2015 – 9:19 am | By NewMexicoKid | Posted in NaNoWriMo, NaperWriMo | Tagged , | Comments (0)

Introducing Nellie the NaNo Mouse (take your picture with her!)

tl;dr: Take your picture with Nellie the NaNo mouse (PDF, download, print out, cut out) doing something NaNoWriMo-related (novel planning, brainstorming, writing (in November), attending a NaNo prep session or other event) and post it here! Back story: Once upon a time, a mouse lived within the NaNoWriMo Library of the Imagination. Her name was […]

October 8, 2015 – 6:15 am | By NewMexicoKid | Posted in NaNoWriMo | Tagged , , , | Comments (0)

Story beats and genres: NaNo Prep Workshop – 2015-10-03

Anastasia Zoldak (anastasia007) gave the first of our four 2015 preparatory workshops today (2015-10-03), looking at advice for plotters and pantsers, how to use story beats and the consideration of genre. Anastasia presented the workshop since her collaborator Todd Hogan (writertodd07) was unable to make it. Twenty five enthusiastic participants, including a fair number of […]

October 3, 2015 – 6:11 pm | By NewMexicoKid | Posted in NaNoWriMo | Tagged , , , , | Comments (0)

NaNo critters (word war prizes for the 2015 season)

Prizes for the word wars at the write-ins I host (at Nichols Library in Naperville in November) are beginning to take shape. NaNo critters, books and tiny typewriters… [shashin type=”album” id=”2″ size=”small” crop=”n” columns=”max” caption=”y” order=”date” position=”center”] Not sure yet what I will do for the 18k challenge…  

September 28, 2015 – 8:24 pm | By NewMexicoKid | Posted in NaperWriMo | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

Fall 2015 slate of preparatory workshops

It’s that time of year again. The time when millions of people around the world sit at their computers, or grab their pen and notepads, and write a novel during the month of November. The world wide phenomenon known as Nanowrimo is set to begin Sunday, November 1st. The question is, are you ready? For […]

September 26, 2015 – 8:08 pm | By NewMexicoKid | Posted in NaperWriMo | Tagged , | Comments (0)