Author Archives: NewMexicoKid

Legend author Marie Lu on social networking and writing YA fiction

New author Marie Lu talks about social networking and writing YA fiction: interesting, short article for those wanting to get published.

November 29, 2011 – 6:15 pm | By NewMexicoKid | Posted in The Journey | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

Final write-in Nov 27th a great success

Seventeen stalwart wrimos showed up at the 95th Street Library to write today (Sunday, November 27th). This was the final Naperville Public Library write-in of the season (there are still a few other write-ins in the final three days of NaNoWriMo). 111127_95th_street_write-in You can see that folks made great progress on their novels: Joe won […]

November 27, 2011 – 9:07 pm | By NewMexicoKid | Posted in NaperWriMo | Tagged , | Comments (0)

Successful write-in at Caribou in Naperville

WritingStudent, scrapacat, squiddish, WriterPete and I broke in the new Box Of Doom today, held some convention word wars and enjoyed a productive morning at Caribou (@Dominicks plaza in Naperville). Then WritingStudent, scrapacat, Squiddish and I went off to lunch at Chipotle (fun!): 111126_nano_writein

November 26, 2011 – 1:37 pm | By NewMexicoKid | Posted in NaperWriMo | Tagged , | Comments (0)

Photos from recent write-ins + more plot critters

Sorry–I’ve been too busy with work and actual writing of my novel to post these till now. Still–enjoy! From the Downers Grove Caribou Write-in (Tuesday, Nov 22) From 111123_downers_grove_writein_plot_critters From 111123_downers_grove_writein_plot_critters 111123_downers_grove_writein_plot_critters Plot Critters From 111123_downers_grove_writein_plot_critters Box of Doom Adding spice to our word wars… From 111123_downers_grove_writein_plot_critters Pictures from Woodridge and Nichols 111119_111120_nano_writeins From 111119_111120_nano_writeins

November 24, 2011 – 8:41 am | By NewMexicoKid | Posted in NaperWriMo | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

Successful Sunday write-in!

We enjoyed a successful Sunday write-in at the 95th Street Library. We had 17 people present (16 wrimos) and everyone wrote many words. WritingStudent wrote over 8000 words; Sapphire added more than 25% to her overall wordcount; and lovebug increased her overall wordcount by nearly 400%! Here are some pictures from the event + a […]

November 13, 2011 – 10:34 pm | By NewMexicoKid | Posted in NaperWriMo | Tagged , | Comments (0)

Fresh plot critters!

Hot off the grill! Available only at the Sunday write-in (November 13th, 95th Street Library: see logistics). From 111112_nano_plot_critters Also see photos from the Caribou write-in yesterday (November 12th): 111112_nano_writein_caribou And November 6th write-in at Nichols Library: From 111107_nano_nov6_writein 111107_nano_nov6_writein

November 13, 2011 – 8:41 am | By NewMexicoKid | Posted in NaperWriMo | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

Saturday (Nov 5) write-ins – a report

111105_nano_writeins Saturday, November 5th, was one of our busier write-in days in recent memory. We had write-ins in several locations. I attended two of them: a morning one in Carol Stream (hosted by co-ML Katherine (KatherineWriting)) and an afternoon one in Woodridge (hosted by Catherine (Cee-Bee)). The Carol Stream Public Library librarian Sarah Kovacs provided […]

November 6, 2011 – 12:51 pm | By NewMexicoKid | Posted in NaNoWriMo, NaperWriMo | Tagged , | Comments (0)