Category Archives: NaperWriMo

Come out tonight to Barnes and Noble

Our final October preparatory workshop is tonight at the downtown Naperville Barnes and Noble (up in the cafe in the second floor). Joe (Corrupted_Flame) and I will be hosting the event. What do we have planned? Well, I wish I could say we have everything planned to a T but the truth is that this […]

More from the second prep session

I was at the “plot table” the whole session and from the reactions of the participants, I think our exercise was a great success. Here’s what we did (you can try this at home with some of your writing buddies; in fact, we can do some of it in our Illinois::Naperville forum, though online written […]

Second Prep Session – Still Time to Get Involved

We had our second preparation meeting on 10/18/08 at Panera, where one table focused on plot, one on characters, and one on description, and then we mixed it up a bit. Details are available at our wiki page for the Oct 18th session If you missed this, don’t worry. There’s still time to get ready […]

How I’m getting Ready for NaNoWriMo

Tim asked me to blog about how I’m getting ready for NaNoWriMo this year. Well, I’m saying no to anything and everything in November except for a few special commitments–like my daughter coming back from college on the 1st for two days, and a special event at my synagogue, also on November 1st. I have […]

Kick-off over, but still plenty of time to plot & plan

On October 4th, we met at the 95th library for the kick-off. We worked on plot and characters, including writing a few line plot and passing it around our table for twists. The question and answer included testimonials from people who have done NaNoWriMo before. Add in brownies, cookies, and a reporter, and I’m sure […]

Saturday’s kick-off

For the first time in our young NaNoWriMo region’s history (we were first a separate region in 2005), our NaNoWriMo kick-off is in October instead of November. It’s this Saturday (October 4th). We chose this date because there are invariably people who come to the kick-off who never have heard of NaNo before; and when […]

October events!

Hello, Illinois::Naperville! I believe most of you probably saw Chris Baty’s recent e-mail about the upcoming NaNoWriMo site lockdown (Sep 21-Oct 1) in preparation for the unveiling of what has been promised as a much more reliable AND feature-filled site than last year’s. I hope that many of you are returning for this fall’s National […]