Author Archives: NewMexicoKid

Notes from the Oct 20 writer’s self assessment workshop

Author and psychologist Roger Lubeck led a group of twenty four writers October 20th through a writer’s self-assessment workshop to prepare folks for National Novel Writing Month. Roger, who is the Editor of the upcoming Journey short story anthology The Day Before The End of the World (to be published October 31, 2012), is by […]

October 22, 2012 – 10:57 am | By NewMexicoKid | Posted in NaperWriMo, Writing | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

Notes from the October 13th prep workshop

My notes from Tom Ostler’s October 13th preparatory workshop are now available on our NaperWriMo wiki. This was a fun, interactive workshop attended by 24 people.

October 14, 2012 – 3:28 pm | By NewMexicoKid | Posted in NaperWriMo | Tagged , | Comments (0)

Using kanbanpad (free) for novel planning?

Ever since I ran into and used the now-abandonware papel for a novel, I’ve been thinking of finding or writing a better novel planning tool. I really like the idea of using 3×5 index cards for this, but in a software tool. I’ve tried celtx and read about Scrivener but I would like a free […]

October 14, 2012 – 11:37 am | By NewMexicoKid | Posted in Writing | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

First prep session notes (emotional response)

The first prep session (Emotional Response: How to connect with your readers) is now completed. The XMind mindmap we used in the workshop is now available We had about thirty people in attendance in the Community Room of the Nichols Library. Next weekend (13 October), Tom Ostler will lead the second preparatory workshop down in […]

October 6, 2012 – 3:51 pm | By NewMexicoKid | Posted in NaperWriMo | Tagged | Comments (0)

Fall program details are now available

Our fall program event details are now available on our wiki. Coming in October we have three interactive workshops to help prepare folks for National Novel Writing Month in November: 10/6, Emotional resonance: reaching your readers, Nichols Library (Naperville): NaNoWriMo Municipal Liaison Tim Yao leads this highly interactive workshop to explore how to plan your […]

September 10, 2012 – 10:46 am | By NewMexicoKid | Posted in NaNoWriMo, NaperWriMo | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

NaNoBots

Some folks might think: November is so far away… And then they might wonder: are my region’s MLs doing anything to prepare for this November? Well, I can tell you that that is a definite YES. I was wondering how to prepare for the write-ins. Last year I made a bunch of plot critters as […]

August 9, 2012 – 8:02 pm | By NewMexicoKid | Posted in NaperWriMo | Comments (0)

Another great TGIO (2011)

December 3rd was the date of the wonderful TGIO celebration. We started off with two ice breakers devised by co-ML Katherine (KatherineWriting). The second of these was to write a 100 words (or less) short short story from the perspective of a plot critter. Her tale went like this: Soft. Crowded, but soft, lots of […]

December 4, 2011 – 2:07 pm | By NewMexicoKid | Posted in NaperWriMo | Tagged , | Comments (0)