Category Archives: NaperWriMo

2011 event dates

Some of our 2011 event dates have now been nailed down! Yeah, I know–everyone is thinking about this year’s NaNo (2010). 2011 seems a lifetime away… But for our region, it wasn’t too late to be thinking about room reservations. We’ve locked down rooms BC at the Naperville Municipal Center: Journey kick-off: January 8, 11:45 […]

October 11, 2010 – 12:11 pm | By NewMexicoKid | Posted in NaperWriMo | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

All about POV’s – notes from the second prep session

Yesterday was our second preparatory workshop, led by our vibrant Crystal Blount.. We had twenty two people in attendance, not a bad turnout for our first Aurora Public Library event.

October 10, 2010 – 9:10 am | By NewMexicoKid | Posted in NaperWriMo, Writing | Tagged , , , , | Comments (0)

Second Prep Session

We have two more prep workshops planned for October. One occurs tomorrow (Saturday, October 9th) at the Eola Road Branch Library (Aurora Public Library system). See http://naperwrimo.org/locations.php for maps to our event locations. I’ve been told we will be in one of the two rooms that are directly opposite the doors to the branch library […]

October 8, 2010 – 3:50 pm | By NewMexicoKid | Posted in NaperWriMo | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

Pictures from the first prep session

Yesterday’s prep session, our first for 2010, was informative and fun. We had 29 people in attendance at the Nichols Library in Naperville (many of them were first-timers in NaNo). Katherine gave a great presentation. Here are some of the points I picked up from the session Strategies for NaNo/writing Use the temptation as a […]

October 3, 2010 – 8:09 am | By NewMexicoKid | Posted in NaperWriMo | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

Prep Session One on October 2nd.

For details on upcoming events, please see: http://naperwrimo.org/wiki/index.php?title=2010_Events Things to start thinking about: Timeline: Before November: Read books, articles about writing and listen to podcasts: http://www.stormwolf.com/thesecrets/podcasts/ http://www.sff.net/odyssey/podcasts.html Home Think abut how & when you’re going to write. If you plan on writing mainly on the weekends, then be sure you say no to invitations for […]

September 26, 2010 – 9:12 am | By KatherineWriting | Posted in NaperWriMo | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

2010 NaperWriMo flyer + Meet and Greet at Andersons

Our 2010 NaperWriMo flyer is now available. Feel free to download, print out and post around to help advertise our free regional events. Thanks to Barb and Lloyd, we will have a meet-and-greet event from 1-3 pm Saturday, September 18th at Anderson’s Bookshop in Naperville. Come on out and say hello. Lloyd, Barb and I […]

September 10, 2010 – 9:48 pm | By NewMexicoKid | Posted in NaperWriMo | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

NaperWriMo website updated!

It was a lot of work, but I’ve finally brought some unity and thematic balance to the NaperWriMo websites. It’s not perfect, but I’ve collected the miscellaneous pages under the naperwrimo.org home while moving the blog down to naperwrimo.org/wp and keeping the wiki at naperwrimo.org/wiki. There are only a handful of available skins/themes that are […]

April 30, 2010 – 7:23 pm | By NewMexicoKid | Posted in NaperWriMo | Tagged , , | Comments (0)