Welcome to Naperville, the rough geographic center of this patch of the western suburbs of Chicago (and including established cities like Aurora), the fifth year of our region's separate existence (prior to 2005, our region existed only as part of Illinois::Elsewhere).
MLs
KatherineWriting, TRRDEDEAN and I (NewMexicoKid) are your co-Municipal Liaisons, volunteers who somehow enjoy making your NaNoWriMo experience an enjoyable and (hopefully) a successful one.
Local Events
We have a full slate of October events (two prep sessions plus an October 31st pot-luck lunch kick-off extravaganza), a few nice goodies to hand out (at our events), and not one, not two, but three official write-in locations this year:
- 95th Street Library in Naperville - 1-4 pm, every Sunday in November
- Warrenville City Hall - 1-4 pm, Saturday, Nov 7, 14, 21.
- Plano Library - 12:30-3:30 pm, Saturday, Nov 7, 14, 21
Please do RSVP for the October events. Our TGIO (Thank Goodness It's Over) pot-luck lunch party will be December 5th at the Naperville Municipal Center!
Affiliation/Homing with Illinois::Naperville
Read the how-to (and why)
Websites
You're welcome to visit our NaperWriMo websites:
- Our blog has helpful articles
- We have a wiki site chock-full of useful references
- Visit our cafepress shops (proceeds help defray local costs; anything above that goes to NaNoWriMo).
- Visit our jabber chatroom (see the instructions here)
Word War
We are planning to challenge a region sometime in the 2nd week of November...
It will probably be an average wordcount word war with the same bet we've
made the past four years--losing region has to sing the song of the winning
region and record it to mp3 to be posted on a website. Note: we've never lost :-)
See http://writing.teiru.net/nano and http://naperwrimo.org/france2008 for some historical records.
Questions?
Please let us know if you have any questions!
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Tim Yao aka NewMexicoKid
co-ML, Illinois::Naperville
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