Category Archives: NaNoWriMo

November is National Novel Writing Month

Pictures from write-ins

Write-ins can be inspirational, focusing, and productive; a welcome break from writing alone by yourself. Here are photos from three of our recent write-ins: the 95th Street Library (in the children’s area; normally we are in the nicer room A), Warrenville City Hall, and the 2nd annual Illinois Statewide write-in hosted at the Inn of […]

November 15, 2009 – 11:16 am | By NewMexicoKid | Posted in NaNoWriMo, NaperWriMo | Comments (0)

Naperville battles Birmingham-West Midlands and Holland & Belgium!

Our Naperville region is in a fierce regional word war vs. England::Birmingham-West Midlands and Europe::Holland & Belgium. Naperville writers–we are currently behind, but a concerted push can help us catch up! At stake–the losing region of each of the two wars must sing (and record themselves singing, as demonstrated so charmingly by France in 2008) […]

November 13, 2009 – 7:43 am | By NewMexicoKid | Posted in NaNoWriMo | Tagged | Comments (0)

Kick-off is today! Write-in tomorrow!

Just a really quick note–the kick-off is just a couple hours away! I’m really excited, though a part of me knows I still have to finish my novel outline today…! A note on tomorrow’s write-in: due to a scheduling snafu at the Naperville Public Library, we won’t be in room A–we’ll be in the Children’s […]

October 31, 2009 – 8:49 am | By NewMexicoKid | Posted in NaNoWriMo, NaperWriMo | Tagged , , , | Comments (0)

A Shout Out to the Screaming Pens!

Friday morning, I visited Mrs. Goodman’s writers, the Screaming Pens at Kennedy Junior High School. We discussed NaNoWriMo; I learned that three of them had already written novels and one of them was a previous NaNoWriMo winner in the Naperville region. Unfortunately, the school bus schedule cut into the time we had together, so we […]

October 24, 2009 – 9:59 pm | By NewMexicoKid | Posted in NaNoWriMo, NaperWriMo | Comments (0)

Oct 10th Plot Prep Session!

This Saturday, October 10th, from 1-3 pm is our high energy Plot Preparation Session. Located at the beautiful 95th Street Library in Naperville (part of the Naperville Public Library), this event is designed to prepare participants in National Novel Writing Month for a successful novel-writing in November. Led by Dave (TRRDEDEAN) and myself (Tim aka […]

October 9, 2009 – 10:26 am | By NewMexicoKid | Posted in NaNoWriMo, NaperWriMo | Comments (0)

TribLocal story on NaNoWriMo

Patti Murphy is a reporter for www.triblocal.com, the online and locally distributed Tribune magazine (comes out on Thursdays). She attended our kick-off and wrote this story about NaNoWriMo and our chapter. Take a look. –Tim

October 12, 2008 – 2:06 pm | By NewMexicoKid | Posted in NaNoWriMo | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

NaNoWriMo site down (10/1)

The NaNoWriMo site went down this morning. The staff wrote: In the wee hours of October 1, after running like a brave champion, one of our two database servers, Lekempti, had what looks to be a very grave hardware failure. Lekempti is off-line now, and is getting new android guts installed. In the meantime, we’re […]

October 1, 2008 – 5:48 pm | By NewMexicoKid | Posted in NaNoWriMo | Comments (0)