NaperWriMo Blog

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]