Saturday 1st November 2008
Thousands of people are already well into their novelling for November (myself among them, thankfully), while plenty of people have yet to get started.
I thought I’d post here some of the tips I put in a Northern Ireland-wide mail sent yesterday.
Visit the NaNoWriMo website frequently:
to read the FAQs (remember to read the rules thoroughly) and [...]
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Friday 31st October 2008
This post replaces one I wrote the other day which was almost immediately made obsolete by me picking an entirely different chat setup after all.
I’ve done some general tidying up around the site in preparation for November - specifically, we have a new chat room. Unlike the old one, this one doesn’t run on IRC; [...]
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Sunday 12th October 2008
This was put as a comment on a couple of posts, but it seems legit, so I’m posting it properly.
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The Dream Quest One Poetry & Writing Contest is open to all and anyone who loves to arrange words into the beautiful art of poetry or to write a short story that is worth telling everyone! [...]
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Thursday 9th October 2008
Historically, there have been two NaNoWriMo regions for Ireland: Dublin and Elsewhere.
But this year, HQ has decided that any geographical area with a municipal liaison should be a region in its own right, so Ireland:Northwest (covering Leitrim, Donegal, Sligo, Roscommon and West Cavan) and Northern Ireland have been added to the list.
If you think you [...]
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Wednesday 1st October 2008
Which means it’s one month to go till the official start of National Novel Writing Month, and also means that the NaNoWriMo website has crashed under the numbers of people getting registered (and reregistered)!
Of course, we lucky Irish WriMos have this blog to hang out on (don’t forget our chat room!) so we can discuss [...]
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Tuesday 15th July 2008
Yes, already. Cavantucky and I just can’t help ourselves - there might be 3 and a half months to go till the start of NaNoWriMo 2008, but she and I have already been swapping ideas about what we’re writing this year.
And since we both have unfinished projects that we want to get out of the [...]
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Tuesday 1st April 2008
April is poetry month, at least in the US, and so there’s also National Poetry Writing Month (NaPoWriMo) - OhNo!
Since I’m not doing Script Frenzy and I’ve been on a poetry-writing kick lately, I’m just going to have to join in with this. Dammit! Anyone else care to join me?
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