Hi everybody. I'm Stacy and this will be my fifth NaNoWriMo, but I don't know ANY of the Iowa City WrMos because the past four years I've been sequestered at boarding school (maybe you've heard of us... out there by West Branch...).
So I just wanted to introduce myself and say hey, who's getting their pregame on? I know I am!
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Every stink that fights the ventilator thinks it's Don Quixote
-Stanislaw Jerszy Lec
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Oct 4, 2009 - 19 24
Hi, I'm Matt, this is my second year (failed miserably last year). Working hard on prep work this year to hopefully prevent me running out of steam five days in.
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Oct 11, 2009 - 12 51
I'm a fifth-year, too. This will be my second win (oh yes, it will be. It will be =.=) last year being the first. I think part of the game that helped me succeed last year was actually hooking up with a group of WriMos in my hometown of Anchorage, where I was last fall and winter. I've moved into Iowa City this summer (I live downtown) and I'm extremely excited for November and the people I stand to meet :)
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Oct 12, 2009 - 13 50
I've done NaNo since 03, sans last year, and lost every time. I keep trying, though. This is, however, my first year in Iowa City, so I'm looking forward to meeting some new novelists this year.
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Oct 12, 2009 - 19 52
Personally, since there are a few of us semi-new folks, I think that there should be a pre-november get together. I don't know who to talk to about it, am very shy IRL and am probably not qualified to do any sort of planning, but I'm going to put it out there.
----------I also really like to bake, and am willing to do a lot of it for NaNo-ers. I'm a serious aspiring pastry chef, so I'm really NOT kidding about baked goods. I want to feed you!
Every stink that fights the ventilator thinks it's Don Quixote
-Stanislaw Jerszy Lec
http://friendlyhobo.livejournal.com
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Oct 13, 2009 - 10 53
We could go to one of the coffee shops around downtown or something. I think there were a few get-togethers last year, but I only ended up going to one (since I mostly gave up 5 days in). I'm not sure if the ML has anything planned or not for October, but if not, we could just do something informal.
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Oct 16, 2009 - 05 00
Please count me in! This is my first year, but as a journalist, I'm used to writing rapidly...
I'd love to be part of get-togethers. And I can bake too.
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Oct 16, 2009 - 18 52
So... should we set a date or something? Or, I dunno, I'm silly/apprehensive.
----------Every stink that fights the ventilator thinks it's Don Quixote
-Stanislaw Jerszy Lec
http://friendlyhobo.livejournal.com
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Oct 17, 2009 - 11 14
I'm Karalee. I started last year and realized I was not going to make 50k by the end of the month. So I'm trying again this year!
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Oct 17, 2009 - 12 23
There are some absolutely wonderful coffee shops downtown. The first one that springs to mind is Capanna, which is there in the ped-mall. They have good coffee, food from the Wedge (pizza, pasta, hot sandwiches, soups, etc), free internet, and LOTS of seating. And they're open late (11 on week nights I think? At least, anyway). That would be my recommendation. It's also the coffee shop that was the designated hang-out for the Writer's Workshop summer festival this year (don't know if that's a regular thing or not).
If people are looking for a venue for non-business gathering (in order to have something that was more like a potluck/not obligating purchase kind of thing) I could potentially arrange to open my place for that. I live in a one-bedroom just across from Mercy (close to downtown Iowa City) but I have decent space and light in my living room and could probably accommodate a pretty healthy handful of people if anyone wanted to make arrangements more like THAT. I would, of course, need to know in enough advance that I could clean et-cetera. I have three cats, and any cooking that anyone else wanted to do would have to happen elsewhere and be brought - my kitchen is almost so tiny as to not accommodate me cooking for myself half the time ;).
I, for one, would love to have a pre-November meet-and-greet sort of thing to get familiar with some of the faces of local NaNoers. Also, is there anything being planned for kickoff (Halloween) night?
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Oct 17, 2009 - 16 34
All right, I'll go for it and say a week from tomorrow, next Sunday afternoon/evening. It'd be like "one week left" count-down. Is that good for people? Would you all rather prefer a public coffee shop, or should we discuss forgettingwalk's lovely hospitality? Should I make a new topic?
----------Every stink that fights the ventilator thinks it's Don Quixote
-Stanislaw Jerszy Lec
http://friendlyhobo.livejournal.com