Virtual Online Kickoff

Don't fret if you can't attend one of our fabulous kickoff events (Monday October 26, 7pm and Saturday October 31, 2pm at the Topeka and Shawnee County Public Library). You can still download these handouts and articles to help you get started with your 50,000 words in 30 days novel writing experience.

If you are a returning Wrimo novelist, please share your best or favorite "kickoff party" advice in this thread.

See also http://www.tscpl.org/programs/comments/national_novel_writing_month_hand...

This article summarizes most of the advice from former participants that is typically shared at a kickoff event. If you can’t attend a kickoff event, this is worth a quick read (about 5 pages long).
http://www.wikihow.com/Participate-in-NaNoWriMo

Downloadable and Online Writing resources galore
Not sure where your story is going or how to use scenes to build suspense? Check out this “Outline for 50000 word novel of 20 chapters - 2500 words each” This is a seven page document, but the first three pages are the most relevant to outlining. http://kalindria.googlepages.com/Outline50K20Chap.rtf

Need plot or character ideas? Check out these downloads from another Nanowrimo group – use the links under “Plotting and World Building” http://dennanos.org/?page_id=69

The Seventh Sanctum is an automated generator service. You click a button and it randomly spits out every possible character, setting, plot, weapon, etc, you could ever imagine http://www.seventhsanctum.com/index-writ.php

Explore the Dare Thread in the forums. Because NaNoWriMo without the Dare Thread just would not be NaNoWriMo at all. http://www.nanowrimo.org/eng/node/3264019

Online motivation for virtual write ins or encouragement
Post in the Topeka forums to organize a virtual write in with other people in our region. http://www.nanowrimo.org/eng/node/1010169

If you are on your own and need a 10 or 15 minutes challenge, check out Write or Die, a site that uses scare and pressure tactics to get you to write http://lab.drwicked.com/writeordie.html

Support Nanowrimo
If you love Nanowrimo, or even enjoy it a little bit, and especially if you are participating this year, please make an effort to donate to help support their noveling goodness. See Donating when Broke http://www.nanowrimo.org/donatingwhenbroke and also donate and shop at the store https://store.lettersandlight.org/
Nanowrimo provides information on where your donations go http://www.nanowrimo.org/eng/wheredonationsgo including their budget.

Download these flyers at http://www.tscpl.org/programs/comments/national_novel_writing_month_hand...

• Flyer for Topeka Nanowrimo 2009 events (1 page pdf) Topeka Nanowrimo events schedule 2009

• Paper-based Nanowrimo tracking device (1 page pdf) Print your own word count tracking system with charts and graphs
• The Two Magna Cartas of Novel Writing (1 page pdf) aka The most important advice from Chris Baty, founder of National Novel Writing Month
• Interactive Word Count Spreadsheet created by Dragle (xls) Excel document to add your word count each day, with charts and graphs!

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Perhaps my entire novel can be written during hours and minutes that my toddler is sleeping. Perhaps not.