It's Municipal Liaison Appreciation Day!
Let us all thank our wonderful, dedicated, hard-working MLs who, year-in and year-out, help make NaNoWriMo an amazing and fun event here in New York City.
Use this thread to send out peals of praise, gobs of gratitude, and thundering thankfulness to our fabulous five!
Here's mine: Thank you Alexis, Erin, Livvy, Olga, and Teresa. What would NaNoNYC (nah*no*nik) be without you? I shudder to even think about it.
(And, gang, if you're feeling particularly generous, help send two of our MLs to the West Coast to participate in the Night of Writing Dangerously.)
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Orwell missed by twenty years.
84,313 / 50,000
Nov 8, 2009 - 09 10
Thanks Avi for starting this thread, came online to do the same.
The NY MLs rock. Gals (Erin, Livvy, Theresa, Alexa and Olga) you are the best leads in the country. Year after year you guys make the stress of the impossible (novel in thirty days -really), a fun and exciting event. Every year you guys raise the bar making the month bigger and better.
How you gals do it all while writing during the month as well is nothing short of inspiring. Each of you probably put 50k of words on the forums in addition to each of your own novels. (you really should speak to Chris Baty about allow your forum posts to count toward your wordcount).
Here's to you *raises glass of non-alcoholic beverage*.
Rock on.
----------2005 - Broken Smile
2006 - Riverdale
2007 - Riverdale: The Return
2008 - In a Lonely Place
2009 - Zombiepocalypse at Riverside
45,654 / 50,000
Nov 8, 2009 - 10 01
My first NaNo was in a region that never, ever had write-ins at bars. NYC rocks because of you, MLs.
----------Not the sharpest clown in the happy meal.
37,407 / 50,000
Nov 8, 2009 - 13 02
This is my first year participating in write-ins. I can only imagine how much work goes in to coordinating the events, and writing 50K words. It's incredibly impressive!
Thanks, guys, for putting the events together and for being so darn friendly!
47,025 / 50,000
Nov 8, 2009 - 15 02
Hooray to Erin, Livvy, Alexis, Olga, and Teresa!!! NYC region would lost and wordless without you!...
Oh, I'm supposed to go back and write something toward word count right about now, right?...
----------2007: "Bread and Circuses"
2008: "The Mystery of the Venerable Chalice"
Blogging at www.triscribe.com
38,000 / 50,000
Nov 8, 2009 - 19 15
Thank you, MLs. I appreciate you! And I hope to make it to a write-in soon, so please, keep making them happen.
With appreciation,
ellentine
43,115 / 50,000
Nov 9, 2009 - 06 21
I'm a day late on this, but oh well. Wooooo MLs! Half the fun of NaNo has always been for me the socializing, and in a writer-ful city like NYC, it has to take enormous effort to coordinate people, places, time, and outlets. I never cease to be amazed!
15,150 / 50,000
Nov 9, 2009 - 07 26
Awww, thanks so much guys! :D
We have such a fantastic group in NYC, it's a pleasure to be an ML here. The amount of wonderful people I've met during my six (!) years of participating in NaNo amazes me - and that of course includes my lovely fellow MLs. (I can show appreciation for them here, too, right? Because they're awesome!) We love doing this, and we're glad that we can make NaNoWriMo more fun and productive for all of you.
----------~Alexis. Truly, truly, truly outrageous. Write hard!
Co-Municipal Liaison for New York City
75,578 / 50,000
Nov 9, 2009 - 08 16
Ditto what Alexis said :)
You guys are great, and it's so much fun to get to know you and write with all of you, the NYC posse :)
----------Livvy, but you can call me Weebles
Manhattan co-ML
NaNoWrimo Haiku: 30 days of noveling, 17 syllables at a time
36,062 / 50,000
Nov 9, 2009 - 11 29
As I may have mentioned a time or two before, having done NaNo in four different cities, I am especially qualified to say: you guys are the best MLs ever. I look forward to November every year, and it's largely because of your organizational efforts and the (enthusiastic, determined, wacky, drink-sodden) tone you set.
----------"When writing a novel that's pretty much entirely what life turns into: 'House burned down. Car stolen. Cat exploded. Did 1500 easy words, so all in all it was a pretty good day.'" -Neil Gaiman