I have already moved my thinking to Bonnie's NaNoWriMo* 2008, my blog for this year. Go take a look at it ... and leave me a comment, if you are so inclined. Thanks.
Saturday, August 30, 2008
It's 2008, so where's your NEW story?
I have already moved my thinking to Bonnie's NaNoWriMo* 2008, my blog for this year. Go take a look at it ... and leave me a comment, if you are so inclined. Thanks.
Thursday, December 6, 2007
Now What?
Lots of people have lots of ideas of what we could do AFTER NaNoWriMo. Here are some of them:
National Novel Finishing Month
http://www.nanofimo.org/
A challenge to finish an existing project in December. This project can be your NaNo novel or anything else, but it should be a partially written novel, not a complete draft in need of editing. (There's NaNoEdMo for that.)
National Novel Editing Month
http://www.nanoedmo.net/xoops/
Spend 50 hours in a single month editing your work, in March.
National Novel Writing Year
http://www.nanowriye.com/
A year-round challenge that lets you choose your own word goal for the year.
National Novel Publishing Year
http://www.nanopubye.org/
A one-year plan for getting your novel ready to submit for publication, including writing, editing, learning about the publishing business, getting critiques, and putting your submission together.
National Novel Continuing Month
http://www.nanocomo.org/
A monthly event, reset on the 1st of every month, with a goal of a minimum of 30k words for the monthly target. Every new month there is a fresh goal of yet another 30k words. Each month is an event within itself and it is not necessary to continue the previous month's novel.
National Novel Finishing Month
http://www.nanofimo.org/
A challenge to finish an existing project in December. This project can be your NaNo novel or anything else, but it should be a partially written novel, not a complete draft in need of editing. (There's NaNoEdMo for that.)
National Novel Editing Month
http://www.nanoedmo.net/xoops/
Spend 50 hours in a single month editing your work, in March.
National Novel Writing Year
http://www.nanowriye.com/
A year-round challenge that lets you choose your own word goal for the year.
National Novel Publishing Year
http://www.nanopubye.org/
A one-year plan for getting your novel ready to submit for publication, including writing, editing, learning about the publishing business, getting critiques, and putting your submission together.
National Novel Continuing Month
http://www.nanocomo.org/
A monthly event, reset on the 1st of every month, with a goal of a minimum of 30k words for the monthly target. Every new month there is a fresh goal of yet another 30k words. Each month is an event within itself and it is not necessary to continue the previous month's novel.
Wednesday, December 5, 2007
I won, I won ... in a 3-way tie!
Cartoon Caption Challenge results
December 3rd, 2007
Thanks to all those who participated in the Cartoon Caption Challenge I posted just before American Thanksgiving:
Lots of great ideas! In the end, I couldn’t choose between the following three-way tie:
December 3rd, 2007
Thanks to all those who participated in the Cartoon Caption Challenge I posted just before American Thanksgiving:
Lots of great ideas! In the end, I couldn’t choose between the following three-way tie:
“If my NaNovel is in the oven, where on earth did I leave the Thanksgiving turkey?” (Mari)
“Just in time for Thanksgiving day, Dawn discovers there is a difference between the ‘bake’ and ‘clean’ buttons on her new electric oven.” (Tasha)
“And my NaNo novel is STILL half baked!” (Bonnie Jacobs)
Monday, December 3, 2007
Do you want to read part of it?
The novel is still a draft ... and the end is not yet in sight ... so it will take a lot of writing, polishing, and re-writing before most of it is worth showing to anyone. However awful they are, I did put up three excerpts from different parts of my draft, which you can read by going here:
http://www.nanowrimo.org/user/212741
You may click around that page and see my stats (showing a chart of word count), my writing buddies and their results, information about me, and those three excerpts. Have fun.
http://www.nanowrimo.org/user/212741
You may click around that page and see my stats (showing a chart of word count), my writing buddies and their results, information about me, and those three excerpts. Have fun.
Chattanooga: TGIO Party: Today!
Hello, Chattanooga Wrimos!
I'm so proud of ALL OF YOU for knuckling down and writing your little fingers off!
In our region of 29 writers, we had a total word count of 316,378, with an average of 26,364 words per writer! That's ABSOLUTELY AWESOME, especially for our first year as a region!
In any case, I do hope you'll all come out to the Thank Goodness It's Over party this afternoon from 4 until 7ish. Bring a 1-page excerpt of your novel to read, and your Winner certificate if you have one. If you didn't win, but you doubled your word count in the last week of NaNo, come to the TGIO party to claim your Doubler's certificate -- a Chattanooga region special!
Hope to see you all there!
--Stephanie
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This email was sent by a NaNoWriMo Municipal Liaison in the 'United States :: Tennessee :: Chattanooga' region using a blind mail forwarding system. Municipal Liaisons are never given direct access to your contact information.
I'm so proud of ALL OF YOU for knuckling down and writing your little fingers off!
In our region of 29 writers, we had a total word count of 316,378, with an average of 26,364 words per writer! That's ABSOLUTELY AWESOME, especially for our first year as a region!
In any case, I do hope you'll all come out to the Thank Goodness It's Over party this afternoon from 4 until 7ish. Bring a 1-page excerpt of your novel to read, and your Winner certificate if you have one. If you didn't win, but you doubled your word count in the last week of NaNo, come to the TGIO party to claim your Doubler's certificate -- a Chattanooga region special!
Hope to see you all there!
--Stephanie
--
This email was sent by a NaNoWriMo Municipal Liaison in the 'United States :: Tennessee :: Chattanooga' region using a blind mail forwarding system. Municipal Liaisons are never given direct access to your contact information.
Thursday, November 29, 2007
Wednesday, November 28, 2007
It's almost here! The End, and the TGIO!
Well, we're getting down to the wire. The last three days. Are you getting tired/ Are you typing your fingers off? Have you started putting descriptions of random websites into your novel? My first novel is "dated" by the fact that I felt it necessary for word count to describe all the time wasters I had found, and the Hamster Dance website ended up as a crucial plot point to the story!
If you're looking for a few thousand words, it may be time to insert a long, involved dream sequence into your novel, something that is utterly bizarre, but opens your story up for using strange words, stranger characters, and having them all do very strange things that take a whole lot of words to describe. "It was all a dream" could be the best five words you discover in this final sprint to the finish line!
We have details now for the TGIO party, which will be in Hixson, largely because we had the largest turnout at the Hixson write-ins.
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DETAILS ON THE TGIO PARTY
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WHAT:
The TGIO (Thank Goodness It's OVER) pary! Come celebrate, raise a glass or just a salad fork to cheer your accomplishments this month!
For the truly adventurous, bring a 1-page excerpt to share with your fellow writers!
WHO:
YOU!!! Whether you wrote 50,000 words or 15, we want to celebrate the creative spirit together! Your family, friends, and cheerleaders are also welcome to join us!
WHEN:
Sunday, December 2, from 4 PM until 7ish.
WHERE:
The Brick Oven Grille
5437 Highway 153
Hixson, TN 37343
(423) 875-4454
SEE YOU THERE!!
--
This email was sent by a NaNoWriMo Municipal Liaison in the United States :: Tennessee :: Chattanooga region using a blind mail forwarding system. Municipal Liaisons are never given direct access to your contact information.
If you're looking for a few thousand words, it may be time to insert a long, involved dream sequence into your novel, something that is utterly bizarre, but opens your story up for using strange words, stranger characters, and having them all do very strange things that take a whole lot of words to describe. "It was all a dream" could be the best five words you discover in this final sprint to the finish line!
We have details now for the TGIO party, which will be in Hixson, largely because we had the largest turnout at the Hixson write-ins.
=================
DETAILS ON THE TGIO PARTY
=================
WHAT:
The TGIO (Thank Goodness It's OVER) pary! Come celebrate, raise a glass or just a salad fork to cheer your accomplishments this month!
For the truly adventurous, bring a 1-page excerpt to share with your fellow writers!
WHO:
YOU!!! Whether you wrote 50,000 words or 15, we want to celebrate the creative spirit together! Your family, friends, and cheerleaders are also welcome to join us!
WHEN:
Sunday, December 2, from 4 PM until 7ish.
WHERE:
The Brick Oven Grille
5437 Highway 153
Hixson, TN 37343
(423) 875-4454
SEE YOU THERE!!
--
This email was sent by a NaNoWriMo Municipal Liaison in the United States :: Tennessee :: Chattanooga region using a blind mail forwarding system. Municipal Liaisons are never given direct access to your contact information.
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