Category Archives: NaNoWriMo

November is National Novel Writing Month

Important information from NaNoWriMo

Saturday, Nov 13th is “Back-Up Your Novel Day.” I can’t tell you how many emails I get from people who lost their novels and are wondering if we have copies of them. Of course we don’t, so that’s why we always encourage people to back them up on a separate computer or hard drive! One […]

November 10, 2010 – 9:35 pm | By NewMexicoKid | Posted in NaNoWriMo | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

The Fabulous NaNo Bookdrive!

Greetings fellow Naperwrimos! Some of you may have heard about the massive Bookdrive that OLL is putting on during NaNo. For those of you who haven’t, here it is summed up: The Office of Letters and Light (the organization that puts on NaNoWriMo every November) is partnering with Better World Books this year to organize […]

October 15, 2010 – 9:27 pm | By xaanterra | Posted in NaNoWriMo, NaperWriMo | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (0)

Some exercises to prepare for NaNo

Here are four exercises you can do to help prepare yourself for NaNoWriMo: take one or two of your characters from your novel-to-be and place them in an uncomfortable situation: e.g., kidnapped or captured by someone. How do they react? What do they do? What do they say? Did any of your characters experience tragedy […]

October 4, 2010 – 8:38 pm | By NewMexicoKid | Posted in NaNoWriMo, Writing | Tagged , | Comments (0)

Need a title?

Check out the title engine that collates titles from NaNoWriMo’s Title Adoption thread in the Adoption Society forum.

October 3, 2010 – 10:39 am | By NewMexicoKid | Posted in NaNoWriMo | Tagged , , , | Comments (0)

A funny cartoon from HannahK

HannahK, a talented and winning wrimo from Holland, has been writing brilliant little cartoons all month long. Today she posted this gem: 😉 ———- Nu ook Dutch NaNo Team 2009 merchandise!! Very funny (even if we don’t wear nappy’s in Naperville)! –NMK

December 3, 2009 – 6:44 am | By NewMexicoKid | Posted in NaNoWriMo, NaperWriMo | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

What a great finish!

So there we were in the jabber chatroom. little_shakespeare and liveluvlaugh07 had popped by, as had JenniferRyukage and KatherineWriting; but at the very end it was just TRRDEDEAN, ajey and me. I was mostly writing because I was afraid we might lose the regional word war and because TRRDEDEAN and ajey both had writing goals […]

December 1, 2009 – 9:44 pm | By NewMexicoKid | Posted in NaNoWriMo, NaperWriMo | Comments (0)