Category Archives: NaperWriMo

Pictures from our TGIO

And so another National Novel Writing Month comes to a close. We had a great Thank-Goodness-It’s-Over (TGIO) pot-luck lunch party, courtesy of co-ML Katherine (KatherineWriting) who organized the event and came up with the brilliant and fun ice breaker: speed noveling. Final stats for our region: Number of affiliated people = 1193 Number of active […]

December 6, 2010 – 6:58 am | By NewMexicoKid | Posted in NaperWriMo | Tagged , | Comments (0)

Thank Goodness It’s Over

Just a really quick post. Tomorrow is our TGIO pot-luck lunch party; we currently have 49 people estimated to attend. I’m preparing a few raffle prizes tonight:

December 3, 2010 – 8:38 pm | By NewMexicoKid | Posted in NaperWriMo | Tagged , | Comments (0)

Final two days

The Final Two Days We have just two days of writing left! Check the events list, join a write-in but write! Don’t give up. I’ve seen people pull out a win in the final seconds after 11:59 PM on November 30th. I’ve seen people write their way back from the brink. Even if you have […]

November 28, 2010 – 11:45 pm | By NewMexicoKid | Posted in NaperWriMo | Tagged , | Comments (0)

Caribou Coffee Saturday, Nov 20

As many of you know, there are write-ins on Saturdays at Caribou Coffee. Due to an unavoidable engagement, Katherine won’t be able to host this weekend; however, since I am a bit behind in my writing but starting my week-long vacation, I will try to fill in for her and will be there from 9:30-11:30 […]

November 19, 2010 – 9:55 pm | By NewMexicoKid | Posted in NaperWriMo | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

Sunday write-ins at the Naperville Public Library

Just wanted to give some additional details about the upcoming Sunday write-ins at the Naperville Public Library since there are two locations we are using this fall: Sunday 11/14: Nichols Library, down in the community room (lower level), 1-4:30 pm Sunday, 11/21: 95th Street Library, room A, 1-4:30 pm Sunday, 11/28: Nichols Library, down in […]

November 12, 2010 – 7:52 am | By NewMexicoKid | Posted in NaperWriMo | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

Naperville Sun story about our region

Just saw this Naperville Sun story about our region by Jenette Sturges. Take a read…

November 10, 2010 – 6:57 am | By NewMexicoKid | Posted in NaperWriMo | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

Finding your writer’s voice

Today we held an informal workshop on finding your writer’s voice. There were twelve of us participating; and, from all reports, everyone found it a very worthwhile exercise. The content of this workshop was based on the Fan Mail from the Future: Finding Your Writer’s Voice workshop at the DucKon 19 conference; that workshop had […]

October 31, 2010 – 7:12 pm | By NewMexicoKid | Posted in NaperWriMo | Tagged , , | Comments (0)