write-ins -- who attended when and where

KatherineWriting — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 19:28:38 -0400

General Instructions Please share with the region your reports and experiences from the write-ins you host and those that you attend. You can also share what wordcounts you achieved at each write-in. Caribou write-in, 11/2/11, 6:25 p.m. (First Write-in for the Naperville Region in 2011) As people trickle into the Caribou on Wednesday evening, they sat first at the four corners of a table for six, then grabbed the table for four nearby. Settling in takes a few minutes, or more as old friends are greeted and names are exchanged with new writers, and coffee, hot chocolate and other yummy drinks are ordered. Soon, the ear plugs go in, and the writing intensifies. And we haven't even started the word wars yet. Eight people (so far) are spending a Wednesday evening at a coffee shop in Naperville, writing at the same time. Isn't NaNoWriMo fun?

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HarvestSparkle — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 22:03:27 -0400

Hi all, sorry I couldn't join you! I hope to see people on Friday morning if I can arrange for it! Hope it was a great night!

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scrapacat — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 22:30:20 -0400

Thanks Katherine! I really enjoyed meeting everyone. Being a recluse, it's often a herculean effort, at best, to venture out of my lair. See you all on Friday!

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KatherineWriting — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 10:33:24 -0400

Friday morning one (11/4/11) had 10 people by 9:30. First word war prize was a plot bunny. More prizes to be distributed and there will be write-ins at Caribou next Friday and the week after. (It will go into the calendar soon.)

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KatherineWriting — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 16:40:42 -0400

Carol Stream Library on 11/5/11 10 - 12 We had coffee, donuts, $10 iTunes cards, plot critters, and two-MLs. Those who were interested (10) went to lunch afterwards nearby. Productive morning. 1) KatherineWriting 2) NewMexicoKid 3) Hollyn 4) CJEGV 5)TheLoudOne* (still has to get handle) Gina 6) Pazuzu 7) Corrupted Flame 8) ziplizard 9) TogetherAgain 10) Dave Grohem 11) Scrapacat 12) UrbanKnight1968 13) cassie67 14) squiddish 15) octopifrenzy 16) SarahK06 and a couple of people who didn't have handles who came because they saw it advertised at the library. Sarah (Carol Stream librarian who organized this and provided the coffee, donuts and iTunes prizes) has a $25 iTunes card for the highest word count in our area. (But let's not tell certain people, all right?)

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TogetherAgain — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 20:11:03 -0400

I went to the write-ins today at both the Carol Stream and Woodridge libraries. Total round-trip, I drove 125 miles. I wrote a total of 2,768 words, all by hand--my highest in a single day so far. I won a cute little turtle for being "slow and steady" with the word wars, writing almost the exact same number of words in every 15-minute war. I had an absolute blast. And since all 2,768 of those words were hand-written... I don't just have writer's cramp in my hand. I have it in my entire ARM. Ow... If anyone needs me, I'll be cuddling with an ice pack.

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susansuth — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 20:45:21 -0400

I was so impressed that you actually handwrote!! I can't even do it anymore 'cause my brain operates way faster than my hand writes. (I think that's a good thing. Wait...hmmm...yeah. A good thing. *G*) Hope your arm feels better. Ouch!

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scrapacat — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 20:47:51 -0400

Lisa - my wrist aches for you... It was a great day for writing - thanks so much to our MLs and the awesome Librarians!

The write-in in Woodridge, November 5th

NewMexicoKid — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 21:17:57 -0400

Catherine (Cee-Bee) kindly hosted the write-in at the Woodridge Public Library, working closely with Woodridge Public Library librarian Denise Murray. She provided wonderful little prizes and also came up with the whimsical wearing of the second-win hats (an honor achieved by winning a word war for the second time). Achieving this high estate were Brian (cableshaft) and Katherine (Squiddish). Catherine is hosting one more write-in in Woodridge in two weeks; she also says that there are plenty of tables and power outlets in the Woodrige Public Library in general, so folks in the vicinity might do well to check it out. Google maps are available. Attending the write-in were:

Tim / NewMexicoKid 9
Brian / cableshaft 4
Victoria / pazuzu 4
Catherine / Cee-Bee 2
Erica / bagofhamsters 4
Susan / susansuth attempted many times since 2003
melissa / ziplizard 3
Mandy / amandajulius 1
Ky / scrapacat 2
Mary / Teenwriter 5
Joe / Corrupted flame 9 (won 3 times)
Lisa / TogetherAgain 1
Chris / Schreibkrampf 4
Kate / KateEileen 1
Katherine / Squiddish 3
Becky / Sapphire 9
Jessica / Gaeliceyes 4

personal stats I will do a big write-up in our blog soon, complete with pictures; but until then I wanted to share some personal stats. Here is my wordcount graph across 7 word wars in two write-ins. I averaged 37.2 words per minute for 3793 words in a cumulative 1.7 hours of word wars. The two write-ins combined for five hours (not including driving time) and I wrote a combined total of 4568 words in those 5 hours, This comes down to 2231 words per hour in the word wars or 914 words per hour across both write-ins. What do these stats say? I think my writing efficiency is very high in focused word wars. I'll need to see the stats in the online jabber wars, but it seems clear that, for me, word wars help me focus on writing. I did do some writing between word wars; there were also opportunities to chat a little with the other participants, which is welcome. group lunch Ten of us had a wonderful group lunch in between the Carol Stream write-in and the Woodrige one. Great chit-chat. book recommendations For Carol and Katherine (Squiddish), here are the book recommendations I mentioned:

David Brin's Uplift books, especially the Hugo and Nebula award-winning Startide Rising (that deals with uplifted dolphins crewing their own starship)
Greg Bear's Eon, Eternity (fantastic books with great scientific concepts), Anvil to the Stars/Forge of God (a cautionary tale about sending messages to the stars with a path back to Earth) and Blood Music (intelligent nanites)
Stephen Baxter's Manifold: Space, Manifold: Origin and Manifold: Time (For Squiddish--the Manifold: Space one is the one with the space-faring squids)

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NewMexicoKid — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 13:56:00 -0500

Here is the blog post with pictures and links to even more pictures from the great Carol Stream and Woodridge write-ins on Saturday, November 5th! Thanks to Sarah Kovacs (Carol Stream Public Library), Denise Murray (Woodridge Public Library) and Catherine (Cee-Bee) for hosting at Woodridge! Also, a correction in the attendance at Woodridge: It wasn't Kate, it was Cayt/CaytEileen (sorry about that, Cayt!)

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KatherineWriting — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 17:37:57 -0500

Starbucks in Barnes & Noble at Geneva Commons, Sunday, 11/6/11 from 1:30 - 3:30 (and beyond.) For a while it looked like a Katherine was going to win every word war (since Squiddish and I were the only ones there), but then Brian (cableshaft) arrived just as Squiddish was closing in on his word count. She passed him by ten words while he ordered coffee, then they were back and forth. By the time I left, they were muttering about possibly making it into the top ten. There will be another write-in next Sunday -- possibly in Batavia, or in Geneva. I'll post it once I figure out exactly where and when. It's fun to watch Squiddish and cableshaft compete, and maybe a few more people will join us.

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Corrupted Flame — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 18:04:38 -0500

The Caribou in downtown Downers Grove, Sunday, 2011/11/06 from 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM The attendees included catatone1, Sapphire, and I. We had two word wars, both won by catatone1. Mostly just regular writing, not a ton of competition to report. =P But it was productive nonetheless, as we met some important goals. As I mentioned in the other thread I created, we plan to make this a weekly thing on Tuesday nights. So if anyone else wants to come out, feel free!

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Sapphire — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 18:06:21 -0500

Caribou - Downers Grove Due to the short notice and possibly the lack of an announcement thread, it was just Corrupted Flame, catatone1, and myself at the write in. We hope to see more people join us in the next few weeks, Tuesdays from 6:30-8:30/9ish! We had a couple word wars and coffee and all in all we met our goals and were successful!

Naperville (Nichols Library), November 6th

NewMexicoKid — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 21:52:01 -0500

We had 18 people at the first Sunday write-in in the NPL system: this one was at Nichols Library in downtown Naperville, where it is always a challenge to find parking ;-) Those present included: Tim / NewMexicoKid Linda / QBerty Beth / TipTappity kirsten / Llark Sarah / WritingStudent Diane / dianedra ethan / ethancherry Cindy / CROUSSEAU Melissa / ziplizard Patricia / iamthecreativewriter Diane / DivineLight Pat / eyewrite Rachel / PernersiDelta (couldn't make this out from the sign-in sheet) Jerry / JJDavis Robin / RobinM Kristen / Deathbypenz + two others who didn't sign in (had a total of 18 people there) I had jabber account requests from WritingStudent, ethancherry, CROUSSEAU, iamthecreativewriter, Qberty, Deathbypenz and pesnersiDelta? (couldn't read this name). I'll send nanomail soon with logins and passwords. We took stats for a special word war prize at the end: the greatest percentage leap from the write-in. Here are the stats (from those who participated; some people didn't have their starting point noted; a few left before this point): 16.47% 24.34% 33.34% 35.37% 40.51% 21.87% 40.57% 22.03% 45.74% 23.36% 109.50% 176.14% Quite impressive for a write-in! I believe it was RobinM who won with 176%. Overall, the stats above started from an average of 8982 words that ended with an average of 11869 words. I will post photos on the blog soon. --Tim

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KatherineWriting — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 21:30:07 -0500

Starbucks in Wheaton on Monday, 11/7/11 1) KatherineWriting - 'won' a Dove chocolate bar (well, ate it because i got hungry) 2) shadowed_ravi (Trisha) - won a Union button 3) Bayfield (Craig) - won a clear cat 4) LemonFairy (Gabi) - won a small elephant 5) cableshaft (Brian) - won a booklet Everyone wins! Especially our word counts.

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KatherineWriting — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 20:41:24 -0500

Caribou, 11/9/11 1) KatherineWriting 2) Betxi626 3) ThePiratess 4) TipTappity 5) WritingStudent 6) RuthAnn 7) HarvestSparkle 8) WordRebel 9) HappyHeart 10) shadowednavi In between 15 minute word wars for books, plot chicken, lotion, etc. there is a lot of talk about who is ahead or behind who on the region chart. Competition.

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sari_anne — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 14:38:09 -0500

For those willing to brave the beautiful mix of hail & snow, come join me at Four Beans! Sadly, 4 Beans days might be limited, so now's your chance to enjoy great coffee & interesting teas, plus free wi-fi.

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sari_anne — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 19:00:22 -0500

Well, it was a write-in of 1 at Four Beans, although I made quite a lot of hopeful and probably awkward eye contact with everyone who walked in. Fortunately, I like to talk to strangers, and the on-and-off hail provided lots of conversation breaks while I wrote. I got about 2 thousand words in, so a productive two hours for me.

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Tairisanders — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 07:59:10 -0500

And so...taking his courage by the armpit....Tairis Horatio Armageddon Anders sets out for the wild and untamed land of Naperville in search of the Veteran's Day Caribou....Will he survive? Will he find glory? Will anyone really care...watch this space!

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KatherineWriting — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 12:14:10 -0500

Caribou, 11/11/11 Cee-Bee Cableshaft Qberty KatherineWriting CJEGV Tarisanders After threatening to disconnect David's internet ourselves because he CHECKED THE INTERNET DURING A WORD WAR, we may have convinced him to quit checking it--or to fib about it. Prizes were a notebook, and plot creatures. We did so much talking that most are going to lunch to continue this write-in that is also a meet-up.

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HarvestSparkle — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 09:56:26 -0500

Hope to make it to the write-in today with HappyHeart...it is until 4 right? I think I will be there for the 1-4ish stretch I think....see you all then! The NEW Caribou on Odgen :)

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TogetherAgain — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 18:08:03 -0500

I spent about four and a half hours at today's write-in, during which time I hand-wrote 2,226 words. Then I got home and typed all of that up in about half an hour, which is kind of depressing if you think about it. But my approximation of what I wrote during the word war turned out to be spot-on: exactly 343 words, more than I've ever done in a word war. For achieving an impressive personal best, I got a plot sea turtle, which is keeping an eye on me right now and wondering why I'm hanging out on the forum when I could OBVIOUSLY be writing more now, because the writer's cramp isn't THAT bad... And if it weren't for my thumb, I would agree.

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KatherineWriting — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 20:02:37 -0500

Caribou - 11/12/11 1) RuthAnn 2) FinbarrMcG (Barry) 3) KatherineWriting 4) TogetherAgain (Lisa) 5) TRRDEDEAM (dave) 6) TipTappity (Beth) 7) HappyHeart (Charlotte) 8) HarvestSpartle (Lauren) 9) NewMexicoKid (Tim) + Others (after I left.) We were so busy just writing that I gave away plot creatures without any word wars in the morning.

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Qberty — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 15:19:05 -0500

Made the 11-11 Caribou write-in and even won one of the coveted journals Katherine is so graciously giving for word war prizes! My daughter will be pleasantly surprised when she gets home tonight since I promised to give one to her if I won one. An even bigger prize was that I received a call in the middle of the write-in that I was needed immediately for a temp job just down the street so unfortunately I had to recant on my luncheon promise at Rock Bottom. Hope everyone had a good lunch (while I ran through the McDonald's drive-thru and had the wonderfully nutritious cheeseburger and fries). Checking in here at the 95th street library a little late due to having done my Black Friday shopping at Toys 'r Us to complete the birthday AND holiday shopping needed. Strike one more item off the to-do list!

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sari_anne — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 18:51:18 -0500

I went home with the silver and purple one--I think it's some sort of butterfly/ram hybrid.

95th Street Library, November 13th (Sunday)

NewMexicoKid — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 18:58:06 -0500

We just completed our write-in in Room C at the 95th Street Library. We had 16 wrimos there: NewMexicoKid/Tim pmbutler/Paige lovebug/Gracie (who made a nearly 400% leap in her novel) WritingStudent/Sarah (who wrote 8120 words in the write-in!) dianedra/Diane ???/Sunitha eyewrite/Pat Sapphire/Becky (who made a 25.4% increase on her novel at the write-in) TeachSir/Greg Orty5/Orty BifBop/Bill TipTappity/Beth Seika Taka Kanata/Lindsay Qberty/LInda Teen Writer/Mary Pink Ink 12/Sharon Great effort, folks! I think I gave out seven plot critters.

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Corrupted Flame — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 23:46:45 -0500

The turn-out was decent at the Downers Grove Caribou for 11/15. Six people total. Sapphire / Becky Pazuzu / Victoria Corrupted Flame / Joe KimOEsq / Kim tenpointstoravendor / Ana catatone1 / Paula And Tim, since you bugged Paula so much, we got pictures. ;) Unfortunately most of mine were blurry. I did get three that turned out kind of okay. I'll post them over in the DG thread.

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KatherineWriting — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 21:06:31 -0500

11/16/11 Caribou KatherineWriting (Katherine) TippityTappity (Beth) JulieWeakins fancieschmancie (Nancy) WordRebel (Bob) Qberty (Linda) Elleinad-YWP (Danielle) Shadowednavi (Tricia) cableshaft (Brian) In addition to a notebook, a plot critter, sticker for winning word wars, people who hadn't won yet this year, won as well. (They picked plot critters.) No write-in here next Wednesday, it's right before Thanksgiving.

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KatherineWriting — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 12:08:07 -0500

KatherineWriting PinkInk12 (Sharon) Ky the Scrapacat CJEGV (Carol) Iamthecreativewriter (Patricia) RuthAnn Took us a few minutes to settle down. KatherineWriting is being a bad influence. (Or David's presence haunts this Caribou now. :) ) But we got writing done. And looked at the word count graph http://naperwrimo.org/faces/2011/naperville.shtml and admired plot critters and notebooks. Another good write-in, not sure if there will be one next Friday or not. (Black Friday.) If you're interested, send KatherineWriting a NaNoMail.

November 19th, Woodridge write-in

NewMexicoKid — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 19:04:05 -0500

It was a raucous affair, but you can see the percentage increase of most of the 14 folks in attendance (Steve's not doing NaNo and Ryan left before we took the final wordcount). Sarah and Joe each won the hat/second win award and Joe also won the biggest % increase on his novel. Many thanks to Catherine (Cee-Bee) for doing a great job of hosting and running the write-in!

November 20, Nichols Library

NewMexicoKid — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 10:25:09 -0500

We had 15 people at Nichols yesterday! Great writing progress by all. I'll post more details (and photos!) soon.

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NewMexicoKid — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 00:30:12 -0500

We had Matthew (Archon_Huskie), Joe (Corrupted Flame), Becky (Sapphire; and the Host), Victoria (Pazuzu), myself (NewMexicoKid) and the great Sarah (WritingStudent, who not only consistently hit huge wordcount numbers the whole write-in but also wrote and posted our official Word War Challenge Thread vs. Maryland, stepping up to the plate big time!). And thanks to Becky for proofing/reviewing the post :-) Great write-in at Caribou Downers Grove. Becky handed out to Sarah a really neat word war prize--a little army guy with a pencil instead of a bazooka--I'll post a picture soon. Thanks to Becky (and Joe, who arrived first) for hosting. --Tim

Saturday, Nov 26, Caribou@Dominicks in Naperville

NewMexicoKid — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 14:39:54 -0500

We had five folks at this morning's writein: * Squiddish (Katherine) * NewMexicoKid (Tim) * WritingStudent (Sarah) * scrapacat (Ky) * WriterPete (Peter)

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TogetherAgain — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 13:38:40 -0500

I was planning on going to the write-in today, especially with how little writing I've done this week... But I'm tired, I've been very social all week, and the last thing I feel like doing is driving over an hour to Naperville. So... I will just have to be super-productive at home. But I'll be thinking of you folks!

Write-in at 95th Street Library - Nov 27th

NewMexicoKid — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 20:25:30 -0500

We had 17 people at today's write-in at the 95th Street Library, including three (Mary, Brian and Carly) who made it across the 50k line (I think Becky may also have done so too): Sarah won the fluffalo, Joe won the dragon, Katherine won the lion; I don't remember who won what after that, but the sparkly cat, the rainbow scarf'd black bunny, the carrot were among the plot critters that have been given new homes! We did the Box of Doom; I think it was very successful overall at inspiring folks, but I ran out of the 72% dark chocolate squares. Will definitely look to doing this more next year.

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KatherineWriting — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 11:27:54 -0500

11/30/11 Caribou 6 - 10 pm Sorry I'm a bit late, but here's who attended: KatherineWriting Shadowednavi Cee-Bee Qberty (Linda) Elleined (Danielle) WritingStudent (Sarah) SeikaTakaKanata (Lindsay) Larkk (Kirsten) J.A. Kossler (Julie) Julie W Eakins (Julie) Julie W. Eakins attended the Night of Writing Dangerously in California! There was massive amounts of sugar, and Chris Baty, and computer screens with eerie faces above them (the light was low) and people in costume. She promised to tell all about it, but can't make Saturday's TGIO.

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Corrupted Flame — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 17:34:12 -0500

I forgot to make a post about the Downers Grove write-in on 11/29. I'm a terrible write-in host. D: Anyway, we had: Corrupted Flame / Joe Sapphire / Becky catatone1 / Paula Pazuzu / Victoria WriterPete / Peter And I took pictures! I'll post them with some other comments over in the DG thread.

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KatherineWriting — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 21:09:24 -0400

Attendees at the 11/2/11 Caribou write-in included: 1) KatherineWriting 2) DivineLight 3) JAKosse 4) JilieNEakins 5) Iamthecreativewriter 6) Scrapacat 7) RuthAnn 8) cableshaft 9) TipTappity 10) Shadowednavi 11) Qberty 12) Elleinad 13) Fancieshmancie 14) Britin

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KatherineWriting — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 15:25:45 -0400

Attendees at Caribou on 11/4/11 RuthAnn Sari_anne HarvestSparkle Jieshan Squiddish PinkInk12 Qberty Scrapacat Cee-Bee DivineLight LindaLu KatherineWriting Barry (FinBarMcG) has a theory that the men are all in their caves writing. Maybe, or maybe they mainly come to write-ins on the weekend. :) It was a good morning's work. People won a plot bunny, a notebook, and a finger puppet.

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HarvestSparkle — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 21:34:51 -0400

Rodney, the tiger finger puppet, says "good evening everyone!" It was great to see people, sorry I was bouncing around a bit but it was nice and I look forward to being more focused next time around :) Thanks for hosting it Katherine! Have a great weekend!!

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KatherineWriting — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 08:53:28 -0400

[quote=HarvestSparkle] Rodney, the tiger finger puppet, says "good evening everyone!" [/quote] Of course you bounced, you had a tiger on your finger! I'm pleased that people seem to be enjoying the write-ins. And I'm even getting some writing done at them myself. (Last night I stopped at the new Caribou on Ogden and Columbia n Naperville, and practically drooled at all the empty tables and outlets (some on the floor.)) Soon as I get a chance (and it won't confuse people) I'm scheduling something there.

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Corrupted Flame — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 20:22:35 -0400

[quote=KatherineWriting](But let's not tell certain people, all right?)[/quote] Like KatherineWriting? Oh, wait. ;)

Re: The write-in in Woodridge, November 5th

NewMexicoKid — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 21:22:38 -0400

[quote=NewMexicoKid] personal stats I will do a big write-up in our blog soon, complete with pictures; but until then I wanted to share some personal stats. Here is my wordcount graph across 7 word wars in two write-ins. I averaged 37.2 words per minute for 3793 words in a cumulative 1.7 hours of word wars. The two write-ins combined for five hours (not including driving time) and I wrote a combined total of 4568 words in those 5 hours, This comes down to 2231 words per hour in the word wars or 914 words per hour across both write-ins.[/quote] And, of course, I forgot to post that graph! Here it is:

Re: The write-in in Woodridge, November 5th

Cee-Bee — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 19:30:35 -0500

Thanks for keeping track of all the participants and occurrences at the WPL write-in, Tim. I bow in homage to your organization and ability to write stuff down other than your novel. Also to the amazing word counts amassed by Brian, Katherine, Joe, you and others! Looking forward to the next Woodridge Public Library write-in on November 19, 1:30-4:30 pm!

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ThePiratess — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 23:05:55 -0500

Plot chicken! <3

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Tairisanders — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 13:36:50 -0500

Katherine was a big bully!!! All I wanted to do was check if all you, my lil writing buddies, were OK!! My first ever write in was fun, Just me and cableshaft and gorgeous women!!! What more could a guy ask for. Socially it was really great ...but i just can't write as part of a team :( Maybe I may have got more words done if Katherine had not moved us from our seats three time. ;)

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Cee-Bee — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 21:21:49 -0500

David, you crack me up! Hope to see you at another write-in soon!

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scrapacat — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 19:27:15 -0500

LOL - yeah, I'm on the road this week. My Cabana Boy keeps sending me pictures of my Plot Bunny, Ghillie, in different locations of the house. "Are you writing, Mom??" Awesome job on the word count, girl. Go!

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ThePiratess — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 00:35:58 -0500

Aww, that is adorable!

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KatherineWriting — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 16:38:15 -0500

1) Squiddish 2) KatherineWriting - who started by knitting 3) Sari_Anne 4) cableshaft The Russian plot creature was the first prize. Very shiny plot creatures were the second and third.

Re: Saturday, Nov 26, Caribou@Dominicks in Naperville

Tairisanders — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 23:59:01 -0500

It's Charlie's Angels ;)

Re: Write-in at 95th Street Library - Nov 27th

scrapacat — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 20:35:33 -0500

Sounds like a wonderful outing! Congrats to everyone who improved their wordcount. Remember, I'll be at the Sugar Grove Library almost all day and night Wednesday (1 to 9 p.m.). I know we will have a few more in the evening. Come play! I'll try to have some little goodies to share. So many of you are soooo very close - come join us for challenges on Jabber if you can't make a write in. We're gaining on Maryland! How great will it be to say our region beat an entire STATE! {Tim can give you jabber accounts and help get you started. I can only corrupt you...}

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Tairisanders — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 23:36:53 -0500

Does meeting Squiddish and ThePiratess for coffee afterwards count as attending? :) was gonna come but was too late :(

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NewMexicoKid — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 20:44:21 -0500

[quote=scrapacat] Sounds like a wonderful outing! Congrats to everyone who improved their wordcount. Remember, I'll be at the Sugar Grove Library almost all day and night Wednesday (1 to 9 p.m.). I know we will have a few more in the evening. Come play! I'll try to have some little goodies to share. So many of you are soooo very close - come join us for challenges on Jabber if you can't make a write in. We're gaining on Maryland! How great will it be to say our region beat an entire STATE! {Tim can give you jabber accounts and help get you started. I can only corrupt you...} [/quote] Great pep talk, Ky! I can definitely provide jabber accounts for folks who want to be a word-warrin' from here until the very end! I am amazed. It may only be temporary, but today we've drawn almost within 1000 words (that's a gain of 1500 words per wrimo! and we know that many folks haven't been writing, so great job to those who have!!!). Go Naperville!

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NewMexicoKid — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 23:44:05 -0500

[quote=Tairisanders] Does meeting Squiddish and ThePiratess for coffee afterwards count as attending? :) was gonna come but was too late :( [/quote] David, Anyone who is still continuing to write as much as you evidently have can count themselves as attending ;-) I posted pictures on our blog. --Tim

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Tairisanders — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 23:57:01 -0500

I have to give credit to Squiddish (Katie), I would have stopped at 50k but she has a knife and is scary....if she says she wants more to read then ya gotta write like the wind :) I did have to quit Nano the Site for several days because i was chatting WAAAY to much.

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Squiddish — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 00:20:12 -0500

;) Don't mess with Texas.... or small sized red heads.