United States :: Pennsylvania :: Elsewhere

Harrisburg

Nellie — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 16:49:52 -0700

Welcome to the 10th Anniversary of NaNoWriMo!

Welcome back to everyone who has participated before and a hearty WELCOME to any new comers. Don't be shy. We only bite if you want us too. :-) This is a big event for everyone and our staff have NaNo HQ have worked heard to make this special for everyone. So if you get a chance, show your appreciation to them for all their hard work. They want you to have an excellent NaNo time. Just think, it started with just a group of friends and EXPLODED into something world wide with thousands of young and old writers bonding over a common activity.

There have been a lot of changes and this is a big event for the NaNoWriMo world. You will notice that there have been a lot of changes made to the website, lots of shiny new things to play around with to enhance your NaNoing experience.

For our meet ups, Atlanta Bread Company and the East Shore Library seemed to work for the Kick Off, write in's and TGIO parties. But if anyone knows of any other places, please let me know. I want everyone to feel comfortable. If you need to contact me, I'm available by e-mail, ICQ and AIM.

All events will be tracked via Google Calenders. Here is the link for the Harrisburg Calender - Harrisburg NaNo Events

E-mail: http://www.nanowrimo.org/mlcontact - When using this form, as we share the Elsewhere forums with other groups, please put HARRISBURG in the subject so we know who it's being sent to.
ICQ: 9949013
AIM: JazzyDrow
When contacting me by ICQ and AIM please let me know that you're from NaNo. :)

And if all else, there is the internal NaNoMail at the top to get in touch with me. Don't be afraid to ask me anything.

Write on!

Nellie
Harrisburg ML
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ML Pennsylvania: Elsewhere - Harrisburg
"Remember, English doesn't borrow from other languages. It follows them into dark alleys, knocks them down and then rummages through their pockets for loose grammar!"

United States :: Pennsylvania :: Elsewhere

Bucks County Writers

merrihart — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 14:51:13 -0700

Hi Everyone! I have volunteered as an ML and I'm just waiting for the confirmation of my region, so meanwhile, I'll shout out to everyone in my county.

I'm hoping for a meeting with everyone interested in October, well before NaNo, as a welcome and get together. New Hope had an active bunch last year, so I'm looking to that area as a point to start.

Also, this year, October 31st falls on a Friday! How many would be interested in a midnight kick off? Please let me know so I can scout out places and find one that will be writer friendly.

Hopefully your ML,
Merrihart
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--Merrihart, ML for Penn

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NaNo Count Down Thread

merrihart — Fri, 3 Oct 2008 07:14:46 -0700

28 Days till November!

Thing to do Today:

Write down your characters names.
Decide on your setting.
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--Merrihart, ML for Penn

United States :: Pennsylvania :: Elsewhere

Scranton/Wilkes-Barre

AlleyCat — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 13:15:40 -0700

Welcome, everyone, to another year of noveling insanity. This is the 10th year anniversary of NaNoWriMo, and my fourth year participating. And November has become my new favorite month. :)

Please introduce yourselves and let us know where you're located. Last year we ran most of our events out of Old Forge, but as the participants change from year to year, it's good to make sure we're meeting in a place that's convenient for as many people as possible. Other possible locations could be Barnes & Noble in Wilkes-Barre or Borders in Dickson City.

We'll be keeping track of our events at Google Calendar. Here's the link:
http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=av53u541bjljm1oebtr5kib988%40gr...

The kind folks at HQ let the MLs in first to set up our welcome message, but we expect the site to be bogged down in the first few days as folks sign up and test out the new profile page. Please be patient. As things settle down, we'll be up to speed soon.

Happy Noveling!!

Alice
Municipal Liaison
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Look out! Mother is coming! Who's taking a bath?
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Gettysburg/Adams County

Cacrocks1 — Fri, 3 Oct 2008 07:19:02 -0700

Anyone from Gettysburg or Adams County in general around? I know last year (figures, the year I wasn't here :P) there was a group around Gettysburg College campus that met a few times so I was wondering who might be active again this year!

Roll call! :D
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2007: Won, Choices
2006 : Won, Adventure of Epic Proportions
2004: Won, Treading the Right Path
2003: Lost
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Anyone in Lancaster?

imagine_different_worlds — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 16:54:08 -0700

Hello? Anyone out there in Lancaster County?

This is my first year doing NaNoWriMo. I was just wondering who, if anyone, in Lancaster County is doing it this year. If anyone is, we should get together sometime before or during November. FYI, I go to Conestoga Valley High School.
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United States :: Pennsylvania :: Elsewhere

York!

la2319 — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 15:38:27 -0700

Hi everybody! I'm not the best topic-starter, but I couldn't wait to get York into the forums!!

Any body out there?

I go to York Suburban school district (I'm in both the middle school and the high school, lol) so speak up if you're a fellow classmate! And watch out for my Nano t-shirts in the halls! :)

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Anyone hailing from the northwest corner?

Reiko_Sazanami — Fri, 3 Oct 2008 09:47:37 -0700

Please don't tell me I'm the only one up here in the sticks! I'm listed as Edinboro due to school, but I hail from Franklin down in Venango. Give me a post if you're up in our region and writing this year!
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A call for NaNo Recipes

Nellie — Fri, 3 Oct 2008 13:22:36 -0700

If you have a recipe you want to donate, post it here. :-)

Main dishes, deserts, favorite drinks, trail mixes, etc.
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ML Pennsylvania: Elsewhere - Harrisburg
"Remember, English doesn't borrow from other languages. It follows them into dark alleys, knocks them down and then rummages through their pockets for loose grammar!"

United States :: Pennsylvania :: Elsewhere

Anywhere from Topton/Kutztown to Reading

NickiIV — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 11:15:15 -0700

Heyo! I'm a new co-ML for the PA: Elsewhere group! Based halfway between Allentown, PA and Reading, PA, I'm hoping that we can get a decent sized group together for this little stretch of 222!

A little bit about me:

I'm Nicki
I've been NaNo-ing since 2003
This is my first year as any sort of Municipal Liason
I'm more excited about November than any other month
I can get a little stupid in my excitement, so please forgive me in advance

I haven't yet gotten my plan together for my novel this year, but usually I don't start to really even think about it until October. But I'd love to hear what anyone else is planning!

Also, if anyone has a blog or website, personal or business, that they may or may not drag into the wonderful chaos of NaNo in November, post your links! I'd love to learn more about everyone!

I think I've covered everything for now. So who in this forum hails from Topton? I'd love to hear from Kutztown residents too, including KU students/staff! And is there anyone in Reading who'd like to join us? Me?

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Honesdale Anyone

dogboi — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 16:19:09 -0700

Anyone from the Honesdale area? (If not, Scranton/Wilkes Barre seems to be the closest at this point.)
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United States :: Pennsylvania :: Elsewhere

Natrona Heights/Tarentum/Lower Burrell

imsupergirl — Sun, 5 Oct 2008 17:56:21 -0700

Anyone from Allegheny Valley?
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Indiana University of Pennsylvania - Indiana, PA

Jilah Cole — Fri, 3 Oct 2008 09:38:19 -0700

Hello all!!

I posted this a few days ago but due to the server crash, it was deleted. Anyway!

My name is Heather and I'm a student at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, and this is my fourth year of participating in NaNoWriMo. There were scheduled meet-ups last year but unfortunately it seems that not many people could make them! I'm really hoping for a bigger turn-out this year and would LOVE to hear from you!! Throughout this month I am going to make an effort to compose a calendar of meet-ups on or around campus, preferably twice a week so that if you can't make one, there's a good possibility you can make the other! So let me know when you're free, where you like to hang out, or any other ideas you might have!!

Also throwing this out there, I am absolutely appalled that there is NO writing club on campus! At least there is not one I can find. There is the Society of Underground Poets, but I am looking to create something more in the area of a creative writing class, like the ones I had in high school. If you are interested in this idea, please please please I would love to hear from you! I'm looking into finding an advisor right now and after that I will need other officers to get this club made.

Well thank you all for reading this, good luck novelling, and I can't wait to hear from you!! You can reach me here:

E-mail: gxgp@iup.edu
AIM: YukixNoxHana

See you!!

H.R.Zaren
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2005: In Her Eyes [lost]
2006: Element of the Universe [lost]
2007: Breaking the Darkness [won]
2008: Under the Fire of the Street Lights

United States :: Pennsylvania :: Elsewhere

Pike County

Whigh — Sat, 4 Oct 2008 22:46:58 -0700

Anyone in the Greeley/Lackawaxen area?

However since we don't seem to be represented yet, we need our own county thread. Let's hear it for Milford, Shohola, Lackawaxen, Greeley, and all those little towns dotting the woods.

I'm located in Greeley and will be there until mid-November when I leave for South Korea to teach for a year. This puts a bit of a cramp on my Nanoing this year so I'll take any motivation I can get. If anyone wants to get together from the area and talk about their nanos, progress or lack thereof, shoot me a line. Here's to hoping I can get a good chunk accomplished before I get interrupted for my trip.

So who else is out there writing in the woods, and anyone going to be heading to the Scranton/WB area for their get togethers and meetings?
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2007: Wandering Worlds Part 1 - 50,024 words
2008: ??? - 0 words

United States :: Pennsylvania :: Elsewhere

Berks/Montgommery county border (I highly doubt it. XD)

ixris — Fri, 3 Oct 2008 17:54:59 -0700

Hi, all!

October is that lovely month of meet-and-greet-and-remeet time. :D So, why not start early-ish?

I'm looking for the Reading Wrimos (no, not the hypothetical ones toting baseball bats and ready to beat me senseless for talking smack on their city every day of the meet-ups last year) from last year, or the current ones. I'm also looking for people from Pottstown, Boyertown, Coventry, anywhere, really, in that area of the berks/montco border area.

Those of you who forget me or don't know, I'm Lilu, call me L. I've done this for the last four years. This is year five, and hopefully number 4 for wins. <3 But it's always more fun in groups. And I'm looking for those of you who played along last year, or are looking to play along for the first time. :D

Let me know if anyone's here or remembers me, please! <3 Thanks! ^^;

-L
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Where'd all the November go? ;_;

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Centre County (State College, Boalsburg, Bellefonte, etc)

Tresa Cho — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 21:18:59 -0700

Hello, hello! I am your adorkable ML for this year. This post will be servicing you this November. Take a moment to introduce yourself to your fellow wrimos. My name is Tresa, and this year I am writing pure fantasy for the first time since starting Nano. :D
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Never be a pessimist. Pessimists are correct oftener than optimists, but optimists have more fun, and neither can change the course of events.
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Altoona - Blair County

jamie-in-chains — Fri, 3 Oct 2008 05:58:04 -0700

Anybody writing in Altoona this year?
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Jamie
You have to sing every day so you can build up to being, you know, Amazingly Brilliant. -- Mick Jagger

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Butler, anyone?

Black_Wings — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 00:51:29 -0700

Just wondering if anyone in the Butler, PA area was participating in NaNo this year! I hope so! :)
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A NaNo Cookbook?

Nellie — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 18:21:23 -0700

I was thinking of something cute to do that would show how diverse we all can be and was wondering if anyone would think doing a cookbook of all our favorite recipes would be interesting.

It would certainly be easy to put together.

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ML Pennsylvania: Elsewhere - Harrisburg
"Remember, English doesn't borrow from other languages. It follows them into dark alleys, knocks them down and then rummages through their pockets for loose grammar!"

United States :: Pennsylvania :: Elsewhere

Selinsgrove

Roc_Lott — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 23:11:28 -0700

All you Selinsgrove novelists, gather! I'm new here but I can already sense a hidden desire in this town to write novels. Well... In the college, at least. I'll be setting up meetings around here relatively soon based in the college, but anyone's welcome to join us.

Anyway, introduce yourselves, say something interesting, talk ideas, have fun.

Hello, my name is Ryan J. Cornelius and I'm a novelist.
My name, though it has a writerly ring to it, is useless to me. There's a famous author named Cornelius Ryan who apparently writes good WW2 books...
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