Category Archives: NaperWriMo

Pictures from our write-ins!

Pictures are now available from the first ever Illinois All-State Write-In, November 22, 2008. The brainchild of Chicago ML TimSimms, the event was hosted by the Illinois::Naperville region at the Warrenville City Hall. 08112_all_state_writein As Katherine noted, the event was lots of fun. I believe that we had close to 40 people in attendance. My […]

November 25, 2008 – 4:20 pm | By NewMexicoKid | Posted in NaperWriMo | Comments (0)

Writing, writing, writing

I was going to start this by talking about plugging away at your novel, but, hey, why plug, or plod, when you can skate, fly, sprint, race, throw yourself willy-nilly into the flowing rapids! In other words, continue to have fun. Speaking of fun, the all-Illinois write-in on Saturday was great! During the first word […]

November 23, 2008 – 8:23 am | By KatherineWriting | Posted in NaperWriMo | Comments (0)

Naperville is at war!

Well, a average wordcount regional word war with Europe::France (here is the great challenge thread in their forum from our own FinbarrMcG). The terms are the same as they were the last two years: the losing region must sing the winning region’s song. Here is our wordwar graph (click through to go to the wordwar […]

November 8, 2008 – 9:14 am | By NewMexicoKid | Posted in NaperWriMo | Comments (0)

Pictures from the 11/1 write-in

Pictures are now available from the November 1st write-in at Warrenville. Thanks very much to Katherine for arranging this great space (note to the wise: bring a cushion with you if you want to sit up on the Council seats–the chairs are comfy but a little low for the desk; there are also normal tables […]

November 2, 2008 – 10:39 am | By NewMexicoKid | Posted in NaperWriMo | Tagged | Comments (0)

Write Ins, Word Wars, and Word Count

The Warrenville City Hall was the site of our first write-in–on November 1st from 1-4. If you didn’t make it this week, there’s another one next week–and it’s a great site (to the surprise of some) with WiFi, comfortable chairs and lots of space. There are also write-ins on Sundays at the 95th library from […]

November 1, 2008 – 4:35 pm | By KatherineWriting | Posted in NaperWriMo | Comments (0)

Just in Case

In case you’re chomping at the bit for November 1 (or even if you’re a tiny bit scared that it’s almost here). I was trying to get ahead on critiquing in an online forum that I belong to and came across  a neat template for examing a piece of writing that might provide people another […]

October 30, 2008 – 4:30 am | By KatherineWriting | Posted in NaperWriMo | Tagged | Comments (0)

Notes from the novel prep workshop

Here we are with less than one week before the start of NaNoWriMo–is your novel preparation complete? While there are those who prefer to plunge into November without much if any preparation, I definitely fall into the camp of people who needs the structure and planning to be in place. Otherwise I find I spend […]

October 26, 2008 – 9:53 am | By NewMexicoKid | Posted in NaperWriMo | Tagged , , | Comments (0)