Category Archives: NaNoWriMo

November is National Novel Writing Month

A full day of write-ins, Saturday, Nov 3rd

We had a full day of writing yesterday (Saturday, November 3rd), thanks to Sarah Kovacs, who organized and hosted the write-in at the Carol Stream Library, and to Catherine Brennan, who organized and hosted the write-in at the Woodridge Public Library. In between, eight of us met for lunch at the Hot Dog Palace.

November 4, 2012 – 10:18 am | By NewMexicoKid | Posted in NaNoWriMo, 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)

Review your novel in Book format

I just saw create space has a new interior view feature. When you open a new title in create space, you upload a word doc or PDF, and view your novel in book format, page by page. Very helpful for later.

November 20, 2011 – 4:29 pm | By Roger Lubeck | Posted in NaNoWriMo, NaperWriMo, The Journey, Writing | 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)

Weekend write-ins

A whole host of new plot critters await the winners of the word wars at write-ins on Saturday and Sunday this weekend (note: the squid is already promised to Squiddish, who charmed everyone at the kick-off with her great Halloween costume (Ragedy Ann). Don’t know what to bring to a write-in? We have a thread […]

November 4, 2011 – 6:58 am | By NewMexicoKid | Posted in NaNoWriMo, NaperWriMo | Tagged , | Comments (0)

On self-publishing and being an Indie author

I am Roger Lubeck.  By profession, I am a psychologist and business consultant.  Today, I am pleased to say I am a published novelist.  In 2004, I started my first NaNoWriMo right before Thanksgiving and completed a 67,000 novel in less than 15 days.  This will be my eighth NaNoWriMo.  On October 29, 2011 at […]

October 14, 2011 – 6:35 am | By Roger Lubeck | Posted in NaNoWriMo | Tagged , , , | Comments (0)

Welcome to the new nanowrimo site

The new Ruby-on-Rails NaNoWriMo site is live! There are a number of nice new features, some features that need to be improved/attained/added, and a list of known issues and missing features. If you are a long-time user of the nanowrimo.org site, the missing features will be quite noticeable; please try to be patient. You can […]

October 11, 2011 – 10:33 am | By NewMexicoKid | Posted in NaNoWriMo | Tagged , | Comments (0)